• No space to store your off-season clothing? Make use of the unused space under your bed with under-bed storage boxes, which provide dust-free storage. If your bed sits too low to accommodate the height of these boxes, bed risers are available at local retailers for under $15.
• Kitchen utensil drawer full of clutter, but not sure what to keep? Try this simple one-month exercise. Take everything out of the drawer and put it into a box on your kitchen counter. For the next four weeks, each time you use something, put it back in the drawer. Whatever is left in the box at the end of the month you should consider getting rid of.
• Does hanging on to childhood memories mean bags of stuffed animals in your already overflowing basement? By encouraging your children to select the most precious of their toys to keep and photographing the rest, you’re helping them purge childhood while holding on to cherished memories. Place photos in a memory album where your child can write their memories, stories, or thoughts about each item and embrace the next phase of their lives.
• Create a file for home appliance manuals and warranties, and staple the receipt to the front cover.
• Donate unopened toiletries such as samples from goody bags or hotels to charities such as shelters.
• Each member of your family should have a memory box to store personal treasures and childhood memorabilia. The box can be decorative and kept accessible, or just functional, such as a plastic bin stored away. Remember that its’ size will dictate its’ contents, so be selective about what memories you keep and honour.
• Handle papers and mail only once. Immediately decide one of the following four options: act on it, file it, purge it, or forward it.
• Use only wooden, plastic, or padded hangers in your closet. Wire hangers do not support clothes and often bend or sag causing creases in your clothes and a generally messy looking closet.
• Live by the one in /one out rule. For every item you bring in the front door, send on item out the back door. Apply this rule to everything from clothing to household items to gifts.
• At the beginning of each season when switching your clothes for the change in weather, hang all of your clothes with the hanger head pointing out into the room instead of toward the wall. As you wear and return your clothes to the closet, put them back as you normally would, with the hanger pointing to the back closet wall. At the end of the season, see how many clothes still have the hanger head facing out into the room. These are the clothes to discard.

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