Waiting for a New Year’s Resolution to sort out the clutter that’s been there ages ago? You should act now or it will continue to pile up and would mean more work for you when you begin to straighten it out. Consider this, a clutter left there would mean a waste of money since it is costly to clean it, costly to store it, and costly if you don’t use it. Throwing out things may be difficult for some people because it might bear a certain emotional value. But on the more practical side, do you really need it?
Start sorting things one room at a time so that you can have a feel of the things that you need and don’t need. Never get tempted to jump to another room. It will just worsen the clutter you’ve made in the previous room.
First of all, prepare three trash bags labeled with the following – “Trash”,”Donate” and “Recycle”. Even though trash is already trash, some items can be recycled and you can probably earn a little bit of profit from it. The “Donate” bag is for those items that are still in good condition and someone else might still use them. You can hand this down to none...