Junk, Ranked
Cleaning your home is a heinous job, both physically and mentally. Every decision to quit becomes your lifestyle. Even when you decide to get rid of your hat, DVD, or vase, you must decide whether to give it away, sell it, or throw it away. Today, let’s focus on simple solutions: things that can be thrown away, recycled, or (good for you!) Compost.
Below we have listed some of the things you can just throw away without thinking. We have tried not to include items that you might give or sell, or items with emotional attachments. This list also assumes that you have better alternatives, or you can buy them straight from your phone for under $ 100. If you can’t afford to throw your trash away, don’t throw it away.
Save this list on your calendar for the weekend, which isn’t all that scary. Play a podcast and scroll through the list. We’ve sorted them from most reliable to least reliable, so when the list is no longer useful, you can simply exit. If a point makes you wonder, don’t try to deal with it! Move quickly to easy while you still have momentum! Go!
Dirty sponges, old toothbrushes – anything that gets annoying and needs replacing because they really affect your health .
Plastic bags: they are very useful! They carry dog droppings, they line the trash in the bathroom. Throw out half of them.
Cardboard boxes: If you’re not going to move, throw away any empty boxes that have dust on them. Break it down, please.
Bad pens: You have your favorite disposable pens and you can afford twenty of them and throw the rest away.
Documents: all documents that have already been digitized or have become obsolete. Receipts, cards, documents, instructions, monthly statements. Here’s a guide on how long you need to keep your documents . Don’t worry about scanning all of your documents or ditching paper. Do it next week.
Bad food: Look at every item in the refrigerator. If it doesn’t look tasty, throw it away. Crispy hot sauce, food you never opened and never will open, food that your aunt forced on you because she didn’t have the fortitude to throw it away. Let feeling guilty about your extravagance remind you to shop more cautiously.
Stale food: Do not use old stale bread as long as new fresh bread remains unused. Stick the stale bread in the freezer (sorry we’re wasteful, but not that wasteful) and start a fresh loaf already. Compost with wilted greens, unreliable milk, and mealy fruits. Or eat it all right now, in one big meal, right now .
Cords: If you can’t tell what it’s all about right away, throw it away. If you haven’t used it in a year, throw it away. If it only worked on your old phone, throw it away. Better to shyly replace the thrown cord once every three years, then fill the drawer with them all the time.
Spoiled Clothes: Don’t worry about clothes you rarely wear. Throw away clothing that is actually stained, torn, or stretched. If you are physically lacking in one-piece clothes to wear, get rid of the spoiled ones, no matter how beautiful they were before. Be especially aggressive with socks and underwear. You can subscribe to lingerie online right now without wearing lingerie falling apart.
Orphaned pairs of things: socks, earrings, gloves. Or, at the very least, get all the orphaned things out of sight so that they don’t slow you mentally as you get dressed. Put them in one shoebox that you didn’t throw out when we told you to.
It’s the same with bad towels, washcloths, or linens . A cheap towel is better than a soiled one. This is honest, dignified, modest.
Signature bullshit: We’re now in “mental clutter” territory: things that work fine but make your home a little less enjoyable. Fridge magnets, coffee mugs, T-shirts and other things with the logo of a company that you are not interested in. I recently received a branded patch holder in the mail. How incredibly useless! If you have enough non-branded alternatives, throw out the branded ones. If you don’t, throw away the branded ones and buy a replacement.
Hangers: If you don’t care if you have plastic hangers, metal or wood, save them all! If you secretly hate half of your coat hangers, replace them. You mustplay theDearest Mommy scene. Pick it up. Explore space.
Magazines: It will hurt so much, but so nice. Once we threw out four-year-old skew-eared New Yorkers and ran around the house, freed like a god. Do it now before you can regret it, no, no, don’t open the question with a promising cover, no!
Accessories for last year’s gadgets: covers, lenses and stands that don’t fit your new model. We’re entering donation territory, but even people with old phones want new cases. Don’t insult them with your used items.
Default headphones: keep one pair of spare headphones. Throw away the rest.
Chipped Cookware: Some dishes are included and you leave cracked and cracked because you don’t curate china in the White House. But if you have a wide and abundant menagerie of coffee mugs, ditch the ones that physically fall apart. Life is too short to drink from a cracked mug.
If it was easy, now throw away all that is broken . If you don’t want to fix it right now , you will never fix it.
Everything you have a hundred: all those things that you have for life that allow you to bury everything that you have. Paper clips, matches, rubber bands. You may run out of five years and buy more and you will be fine, and in the meantime, you will have a lot more space in your trash bin. It will be wasteful, but just like with old cords, it actually frees up storage space for your real stuff.
Weird random gifts your parents like Walgreens give you: no one wants them. Goodwill doesn’t even need it. The store didn’t even want it, so your parents got it on sale.
Now, if you have any energy left (wow, look at yourself!), You can try really hard things, like books you never read, clothes that don’t fit, and things that made by your children. Or check out this long PopSugar list of other things you can throw away. Or work with your mailbox.
Or just relax! You did such a good job! We are proud, even envious! Invite someone, show your place, they will be impressed and say that they could never do such a good job. And you will not agree, yesterday you were a lost soul, like them, but they can transform just like you! “Now go and do the same,” you say, and they will do it, and blessings will be poured on both of you.