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Originally Posted by Gogar
Here's mine.
If you haven't touched it in 5 years, SELL IT or get rid of it. Period. No exceptions
Works for everything. Clothes, gadgets, books, furniture, and spouses. 
I did it with my clothes first, and it was really an eye-opener. I threw away about 75% of my clothes, and haven't missed any of them one bit. |
The folks that have mentioned the "time hack" as a metric for shedding stuff are right on the money. During a remodel of our bedroom a few years ago we rearranged and expanded our closet and decided on the Gogar approach.
The Goodwill pile was a lot bigger than what we kept...could have saved on the remodel
We also re-worked some barn buildings this fall and I really took a hard look at stuff I haven't used in
years. I sold or donated an amazing amount of farm detritus...some stuff I've stored since we bought this place and I didn't even know what purpose the stuff served
