Today is the last day of “Lighten Up! Tips for Letting Go in 2024.” Have you had been able to make some improvements in your space? Have you let go of a few things that have been feeling like a burden? I hope so! It feels so good to remove things from our spaces (and calendars) that are dragging us down. Life is too short for living muddled under things that we do not value.
This month contained a lot of information, some of which you may not have needed in real time. The good news is, I’ll leave all of this up on my blog so that you can check back should the need arise. To make this easier, below are links to all of the resources for easy reference. Just click on the image and it will open up a link to the page with the details.
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I wish you a year that feels light and enjoyable. Should you wish to dig deeper into decluttering and organizing, I’m always available for a free phone call. Have a wonderful year!
This is a great wrap-up of all the most challenging discards in our spaces. Thank you for bringing this to our attention and helping us move forward.
Thanks for reading, Ellen! It was fun putting it together, and I hope it will help people who are stuck.
I’m so glad you are leaving these on your blog. I want to read some of them again. It will remind me of something I intended to do but got distracted and didn’t. It really has been a lot of helpful information.
Dianne
Thanks for reading and commenting, Dianne! I’m so glad you found it helpful!
Thanks for leaving them up like you did. Easy to go through and click on the ones we need to check. Great info there.
It also helps me look back and find my own resources LOL!
Wow, Seana! I love how you combined the entire month’s worth of resources in one post! I didn’t read all of them, so I’m excited to know they are here. What excellent topics you picked! Many address those things our clients find challenging to let go of. Mostly, it’s not because they don’t want to let go, but they don’t know how to properly de-possess the thing.
You gave us the motherload of resources. Thank you for all of your research. I know I’ll refer back to this one many times.
I stumbled into this reality – that people don’t know how to de-possess things – and thought it would make a good series. It’s been interesting to see which ones garnered the greatest reactions. Remains/ashes, for example, which I wasn’t sure about covering, drew a lot of interest.
All terrific tips, Seana! I will be referring back to them from time to time.
I hope it is a helpful resource for all of us going forward!
Wow, what a list of helpful info and tips on how to let go and where to donate. What a great theme for the month of January. It is really great to have them listed all together. Congrats on this series.
Thanks, Kim. I could tell as I was working on it that I was putting together this information in a way that would benefit me and other organizers as well!
This is fantastic, Seana! I love a good wrap-up/roundup/carnival! And it reminds me how entertained I’ve been by your choice of avatars for each one. So funny! Oh, and great tips, too! We all have so many more things to let go of besides clothing, don’t we? Thank you for this series. Great way to kick off the year!
Thanks, Hazel. I had so much fun putting the images together! My daughter was the artist of the painted images, so that feels doubly special to me. 🙂
Great job, Seana! I appreciate that you included uncommon items so people know how to dispose of them. Thank you, I’ll share this.
It’s been interesting to see which ones resonated the most. A few (such as Remains/Ashes) I wasn’t sure about. But I have encountered multiple people with this challenge, so I decided to go forward, and it has been one of the most read of the series!
This was a magnificent series. The obstacle for so many people, even professional organizers, to getting rid of clutter can sometimes be found in just not knowing how or where to move that clutter onward, either for recycling or a purposeful new life with someone else. You’ve gone a big way toward removing that obstacle, Seana! Every time I read what I thought was the most helpful (for example, the one on mercury thermometers), I’d find a new favorite (like, pianos). You did an amazing job with this, and it should be an industry standard to send people here!
Aw, thank you Julie! I knew as I was working on putting it all together that it would be helpful to me going forward, as well as to my clients and hopefully other organizers. My hope is always to make it easier to shed unwanted things in a way we can feel good about. 🙂