Key takeaways
- Work in 30-minute rooms, not all-day marathons
- Four piles only: keep, donate, sell, trash
- Anything unopened since the last move goes
Set a timer, pick one room
Decluttering fails when it is open-ended. Thirty minutes in a single room is short enough to start and long enough to finish a closet.
Four piles, no fifth
Keep, donate, sell, trash. The moment you create a maybe pile, you have created a second project.
The last-move rule
If a box has not been opened since your last move, you do not need what is in it. Open it only if you cannot name a single item inside.
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Maya Alvarez
Operations Lead
Maya has helped hundreds of households and offices in Chicago, IL move with reusable bins, and writes about what actually works on the day.
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