Down, But Not Out: The Clutter Fairy Guide to Downsizing

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Trial Downsize

This week’s assignment is to view your space through a downsizing lens to look for opportunities to reduce your clutter:

• Imagine a situation in which you would have to fit all of your current possessions into a significantly smaller living space.
• Now do a walk-through of your home, making a list of any large items, furniture, storage containers, or collections of stuff that would be difficult to accommodate in a reduced space.
• For each item on your list, assign a grade or score for how important it is to you to keep this object in your imaginary downsized space.
• Now consider the item or items that scored the lowest on your list, and reflect on whether you’re ready to let any of them go—or at least to make a plan for how you’d dispose of them in the event of an actual downsizing move.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.