25 Things You Really Don’t Need in Your House and Will Never Miss
- Appliance instruction manuals. Look it up on-line
- More than 15 pieces of Tupperware
- More than two water bottles per person in the house
- Expired food
- Empty boxes
- Cookbooks you don’t use
- Serving dishes you don’t use
- All those extra vases that came with flower deliveries
- Taxes returns older than 7 years
- Bills, receipts and other paperwork older than 1 year (if not reported in your taxes)
- Old magazines and books you don’t intend to read again
- More than 50 pens in your entire home
- Old mobile phones, VCRs and other outdated electronics
- Cords that you don’t know what they do
- DVDs/CDs/Tapes that are part of a collection you no longer listen to
- Tile, flooring, paint, wallpaper and other décor that is no longer in use in your home
- Gifts you hate but are keeping out of guilt
- Clothes that no longer fit (even if they were expensive)
- Baby gear and children’s clothes they have outgrown if you aren’t having another baby
- Extra sets of sheets (keep two sets for each bed)
- Throw blankets and old comforters you don’t intend to use (one extra per bed is plenty)
- Expired medicine
- Makeup you no longer wear
- Travel soaps, shampoos, conditioners and shower caps
- Towels that don’t match, have holes or bleach stains (one or two sets per bath is plenty)
