- All the hotel key cards you’ve brought home with you
- The doilies crocheted 35 years ago that got handed down to you
- CD’s you haven’t listened to in three years or more
- The boxes of cassettes you’ve been meaning to transfer to CD’s
- The bread maker
- Your wedding dress
- Credit card bills from 2000. and 1999, 1998, 1997...
- The Allen wrenches from every piece of IKEA furniture you ever assembled
- The jacket you spent way too much money on and never wore
- Every scratching post or toy your cat doesn’t like
- House plants you no longer love
- The stacks of O Magazine you swear you’ll re-read
- Every little zippy bag that came with a Clinique purchase
- Every unopened perfume that came with a Clinique purchase
- Leftover scrunchies in case you grow your hair long again
- The “Cherries Jubilee” flavored lip balm that makes you nauseous
- Every single regretful lipstick color you bought on a whim
- Your last four cell phones and all their chargers and blue teeth
- Single socks
- Any glassware or dinnerware that is a “memorabilia” item from proms or sororities or sports events
- The posters you had in your college dorm room
- Old stereo and telephone wires. Put them in a bag, label it 'random wires', store for 1 year. Bring it out and toss.
- The nails, screws, anchors, and cup hooks rusting in the bottom of your tool box
- Remote controls that don’t remotely control anything you still own
- Lamps, toasters, blenders, coffeemakers that no longer work
- The notion that you will ever be one of those moms that makes beautiful scrapbooks
- Old blankets and linens you keep in case you suddenly have 27 sleepover guests
- College text books
- Any boring decorative item that does little more than fill space
- Vases you don’t love or use
- Candle holders you don’t love or use
- Picture frames you don’t love or use
- All your class notes from college
- The idea that you have to save every piece of your children’s artwork and school work because it might mean you don’t love them if you don’t
- The “good silver” you don’t use that was passed down to you. Give them to a relative that will use them.
- Old VHS movies
- Unlabeled VHS tapes
- The stationary bike that got even more stationary after you got it
- The fabric pieces you’ve been collecting in case you ever become a quilter
- Flashlights that dimly light up only after you bang them over and over on your thigh
- Old keys that open some door somewhere in the past
- Suitcases you don’t use
- Old computers
- Old stereos
- Promotional duffel bags with ugly logos and bad acronyms stitched all over them
- Anything that makes you say, “But I got such a good price on it!”
- Anything that makes you say, “But I paid so much for it!”
- Half-full cans of paint
- Extra baby items/Old baby items
- Record albums
- Gifts you never liked
- All the cross-stitch, knitting, or sewing projects you never finished
- All the hotel soaps that you took with you
- Old information packets you no longer need or that you can easily find on line
- The belief that you only have to go through the de-cluttering process once and won’t ever have to do it again
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