From dust covered magazines to broken pieces of electronic devices, I'm sure we all share our precious room with unnecessary things that make it hard for us to clean, organize and find room for the things that actually work, or are useful. I myself, after a long lecture I gave myself inside my head, decided I should grow up and get rid of the things I don't use anymore... and buy me some sweet treats to celebrate afterwards.
In case you also want to take this small step for you, but huge leap for your room, here are the best advices I can give you. Throw away:
1. Those old pens that don't work anymore
Yes, they may be cute, and they may be great memories reminders, no one says you can't keep anything that's not working (though that's not a bad idea at all) but need I remind you they aren't working and occupying space on your desk or in the drawers. You can keep some of them for memories but not too many, and if they are only memories related, keep only the ones that stirr good memories. Speaking of memories
2. The suffocating memories
Keep some memories, especially those that remind you of the good old times and other things you know you might want to remember for the rest of your life, but throw away the ones that don't bring a smile on your face when you see them.
3. Some of your old toys
I have absolutely nothing against a couple of old toys, especially those favorite toys you had as a kid, but don't keep everything. I've been in rooms that had more plush toys than shops. I mean come on! That's straight OCD! No one says you shouldn't keep some toys just make sure there's still room to open the doors and windows. You can also do a very nice thing and donate those toys, either to the little neighbors you have or to those more unfortunate than you - you know the type of kids that rarely get toys. This way you'll feel double good - you'll have more space in the room and you'll feel good knowing others are enjoying and playing with those toys that otherwise would've just laid around
4. Clothing and shoes you haven't worn in the last 18 months (I'll include bags in here as well)
Yeah, I know you were going to wear it so many times but... don't start to give me those excuses. I bet there are plenty of clothes you haven't wore in the past 18 months and most probably you never will do it again. Again, I encourage you keeping a couple (when I say a couple I mean a couple - two or three at most!) of your favorite ones but the rest has to go. Look on the bright side, you'll have an excuse to not feel bad when you'll get those jeans you had your eyes on for a while now.
5. Power cords and various connective cables
I'm talking about the ones that don't work, are not required anymore (eg. your old phone is long gone but you still keep the charger and the USB cable) or the duplicates. Whenever we buy a new gadget, it comes with its own cables, and at least one of them is a USB cord. So keep the cables, cords for the current gadgets you have and throw the rest.
6. Magazines
Yeah, I know there are pages that have useful things like recipes, beauty advices, great stories and so on, and I'm not saying don't keep those, I'm saying don't keep the whole magazine just for that - see where I'm going? Keep only the pages you need from the magazines, keep cut outs or even better, just scan the pages/info you need and keep it in a special folder on your computer/laptop/phone/tablet, whichever you prefer.
7. Old makeup, perfumes and other beauty products
They do have an expiration date you know? Make up and other beauty products are already toxic enough as it is, you don't need them to get even worse. And about those perfumes you received as gifts and don't really like the scent, ask friends or family if they want them - just make sure you don't ask the person that gave you the gift that.
8. Everything that's expired: pills, vitamins, food and so on
Do I really need to talk to you about why you should not use them after they expire?. Just throw them
9. Broken things you didn't take the time to repair and probably never will
Yeah, I know you were going to fix it but... insert your excuse here. If you didn't find the time to repair it in the past six months you'll probably never get to it, but just to make sure keep it for six more months. If however, those 6 more months passed and you still didn't fix it (either because you didn't have the time, mood, money bla bla or just you simply couldn't) just throw it.
10. The grudges
As I stated in a previous post holding grudges, not forgiving doesn't help you at all. So let the past be the past and focus on this moment. What's done is done and you can't change that, but you can change what you do and how you feel right now.Wishing you the best,
Rachel
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