“It’s Just Taking Up Space”: Professional Organizer Shares 18 Things You Don’t Need In Your House

Yes get rid of old stuff not healthy!

They also harbor MITES.

Absolutely good advice. Style Theorists (an offshoout of Food Theorists, and offshoot of Film Theorists, and offshoot of Game Theorists) covered this. But dayum, she didn't need to throw so much of her actual eyebrows away.

I can confirm that 18yo aspirin works just as well as new aspirin.

No to this too, the only meds that you need to throw away right away - are antibiotics. Other than that, other meds can go pass the expiration date and will be fine. The only thing that is the downfall is that it won't work as well or as potent. But it won't kill you. The expiration date is an FDA regulation for marketing purposes.

Please don't flush ANY medication down the toilet.

I was advised to toss old meds in with used kitty litter.

In Western Australia you can return unused medication to the pharmacist.

I just remove the address and any other personal details and burn those bits. Chuck the rest for recycling. But. You need to keep a lot of paperwork for many years. Bank statements, spending, receipts, social security, insurance and if HMRC want to check things you have to present them.

Keep the cancelled stamps. Some charities sell them to collectors. Old stamps can be a good source of income for the charity.

Maybe don't toss V-Mail (World War II scanned mail sent home from active soldiers in the Pacific, Africa, and Europe). Maybe try to donate to your local Historical Society or Veterans group. Each Victory Mail tells a compelling story. Very much worth something to someone.

In the picture is old war time mail I would keep those for for historical and ancestry purposes. I have some of my great uncles letters and V-mails from WW2 they are interesting reading.

Keep your tax records seven years or whatever is required in your jurisdiction

I have to disagree with this one. I sometimes take old cards, cut off the front part so it's like a postcard, write a message on/sign the back of that, use a hole punch to make a hole, and tie it to a gift with ribbon.

I usually toss them the day after my bday. Which I don't celebrate so stop sending me cards.

I always kept all of them. Recently I went through them and only kept the ones that I really like. I realized I had so many cards with just some random image on the front and just the standard "Happy birthday, love, your aunt" or "Merry Christmas from your neighbours". Keeping 1 from that aunt or neighbour is enough for me. And I have a million love notes from my partner, there are so many special ones I am still keeping, but I don't need to keep a 100 "goodmorning love, see you tonight" notes, just a couple is enough. Added bonus: it is fun to go through the pile and see all those lovely things. If I hadn't decided to go through them to throw some out, I might not ever have actually gone through them ever in my life.

Yes please recycle, some schools for disability centers repurpose these cards to beautiful handicrafts!

My 30 year old daughter would freak out if I told her this, she has kept every card she has ever received. Some from people no longer with us. She would never throw them away

Bad advice. Food storage containers stack.

For me the trick was: buy only 1 kind and get rid of all the other ones. I only have 1 brand and only 1 kind. They do have 2 different sizes, but they only have different heights, but the exact same width (so high ones and low ones). So you can use the same lidls for all of them, never spend time on finding a fitting lid. And because they're all the same, you can stack them all inside each other, just put the high ones on top and the low ones on the bottom (or use 2 stacks if that's more convenient). So now I can have many containers but they take up barely any space.

Last sentence : I regularly do that and when I come back to my drawer there are containers without lid or lids without container. It's à curse!

I have an excess but I batch cook so I use them all.

Like the insurance ad: butter containers should be recycled. Not saved for leftovers!

But I reuse my boxes to send packages...

People literally sell empty iPhone boxes on eBay for the price of a new phone

Typically, electronics come in really nice boxes. I use mine to give gifts. Three minutes on YouTube and you can learn how to wrap top and bottom separately so the recipient of the gift doesn't see the branding on the box when opening it. And, they can reuse it to give someone else a gift. No need to BUY gift boxes and make more waste.

Keeping them because you use them for other things is one thing. But I think this is more so aimed for the people that just throw al their boxes in the garage or closet and there they still sit years later doing nothing. Even if people no longer have the original items...I also what kind of c**p electronics people buy you need to return items. Or how long warranties are in some places. Where I live most warranties are only good for a year or two(assuming you paid the extra to buy the warranty to begin with). I never do and have yet to have an item break within the time frame of the warranty anyway. So I consider that a waste of money. Maybe I've just been lucky for decades 🤷

It's not a VIN number. It's just VIN. Obviously she doesn't know what VIN stands for. You're not likely to have a box that contains a VIN.

Unfortunately my size fluctuates due to health reasons. If I were to throw stuff that doesnt fit today today, next week I'd have to live in my pyjamas.

It bothers me that this organizer states to THROW things away rather than donating.

No, donate it

No sell it on ebay or etsey, first look it up on Google what's it worth, then sell!

Some of you are too literal. Just because it says throw away doesn't mean you can't donate it etc. The point is get rid of stuff you can't use.

Most foods don't have an expiration date - they have a "best by" date, which are very arbitrary. That food is still good! They put that there so you will throw it away and have to buy more!

Use by...throw it away, it will have an ingredient in it that can be harmful after a certain date. Best before...is a guide, the product is at its best till that date, after the ingredients degrade. Open packets, dented tins, tin that have a bubbled lid, regardless of useby/ best before are done, finished, get rid of them, especially the tins, they are deadly

Another bad suggestion!

I regularly check the dates so food isn't wasted. 😊

I would suggest taking any food you don't want and listing it on Olio or freecycle. It's such a waste otherwise. Obviously anything past it's use by date is no good, but best before dated item can be consumed long past the date. (Food dating rules do vary country to country)

I always used my old, falling apart towels for my dogs. I kept them in a different place because they were just for the dogs. I agree with her that if you are going to repurpose them then do it! Don't just keep them in the closet with the intent to reuse.

Take to animal shelter pls

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