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Letting Go Due to The Reality of Your Situation

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-07-18T12:09:27-05:00July 19th, 2023|Categories: Decluttering|Tags: donation, downsizing, memories, purging, quality of life, sentimental attachments, storage, Swedish Death Cleaning|

Letting go of things is not easy for a lot of people for a lot of reasons. For some reason, it seems like the older we get the harder it is to let go of things. I find this issue a lot when downsizing older adults. It may be that as we get older, we get set in our ways and change becomes more difficult for us. The most popular reason with difficulty letting go of things seems to be for sentimental reasons. It may be an item that is broken and has outlived its usefulness, but if it was [...]

Discarding Regrets – How to Avoid Them

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:14-06:00May 6th, 2020|Categories: Downsizing|Tags: decisions, donate, downsizing, important papers, sentimental attachments|

As a professional organizer specializing in downsizing, I have yet to come across a client that had discarding regrets. A lot of their spaces are consumed by things that can’t be donated or sold. Things like broken items, clothing with stains, or rips, or boxes they held onto instead of recycling them. These items are the no-brainers. They engage my services because they need to reduce the amount of their belongings for various reasons. The most common reason is that they are moving to a smaller home. They understand that they can’t take everything with them because it won’t all [...]

Use It or Remove It

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:20-06:00July 10th, 2019|Categories: Decluttering, Downsizing|Tags: clutter, decisions, inherited items, memories, sentimental attachments|

How many things do you have that you don’t use? I’m guessing the answer to that question is, a lot. Here’s a new mantra for you – ‘use it or remove it’. Inherited items come to mind. Most of us have things we don’t use that were inherited from a family member or multiple family members. We keep them whether we want them or not just because they were Grandma’s or Uncle Ed’s. We associate these things with memories of the person they belonged to. These items fill up our storage areas and then we don’t have room for our [...]