It's time to start spring cleaning! Again, you turn out the contents of all the cabinets and nightstands onto the floor and begin to sort through the heaps of trash. “It seems like you don’t need this box, but it’s so beautiful! But this blouse reminds me of student years... Magazines from the early 2000s seem to be no longer relevant, but there beautiful pictures and the recipes are interesting, although I have no desire to cook at all.”
This is how mountains of garbage accumulate in the house, of which there is absolutely no use for many years, and they take up plenty of space. How to get rid of unnecessary things in the apartment?
Every home has a bag or two of unnecessary things. Most often, the following items fall under this concept:
- old dishes, extra sets;
- outdated or broken equipment;
- cloth;
- toys;
- magazines, newspapers, notebooks with notes;
- empty jars and boxes;
- stationery;
- shoes;
- all sorts of little things like accessories and hats;
- expired cosmetics;
- pieces of furniture.
Get ready to get rid of everything that does not bring you any benefit and only interferes with your life, because it takes away free space and spoils the cozy atmosphere.
Let's start getting rid of unnecessary things: 10 unusual ways
To begin with, it doesn’t hurt to do some general cleaning and throw away everything you don’t mind. But this is just the beginning, and it will be more difficult to part with things further. Therefore, we offer you 10 techniques that will help you master the art of getting rid of unnecessary things.
Crucial 12 months
Most best way find out what things should be thrown away - keep track of what you use throughout the year. While going through the boxes, try to remember when you were in last time met with every subject.
With things in the closet, everything is generally simple: hang the clothes on hangers and unfold them reverse side. Turn every item worn at least once right side out. In a year you will see what remains untouched. If you haven’t worn it during all this time, you’re unlikely to wear it later. The same goes for other items.
Imaginary move
Imagine that the time has come to move to a modest, cozy apartment. There is little space in the boxes, so you can only take with you what you really need. Can you do without a juicer and toaster? There is a reason to get rid of them. In your “new” home, you are also unlikely to need cutouts from magazines from ten years ago and cute dresses from your school days. But put your favorite shoes and folder with documents away from the trash can!
Psychology of poverty
There is a theory according to which people who lack finances to organize their lives are prone to hoarding, not money, but garbage things. This is due to the desire to leave something “for a rainy day, what if it comes in handy?”
If you do not consider yourself poor and are striving to improve the quality of your life, immediately eradicate this habit.
Soon you will notice that life is really starting to get better. Positive thoughts and a new environment in the apartment are powerful prerequisites for achieving well-being.
Create comfort
It is impossible to achieve a warm, cozy atmosphere if your home is littered with junk. From this pile, select items that can be used to make your home more comfortable and cozy. For example, hang old family photographs on the wall, put a blanket on the chair, make a panel of memorable little things. And don't forget to read.
But throw everything that turns out to be superfluous into the trash. Believe me, the apartment will become more spacious and much more comfortable.
Down with broken things!
Remember the main rule: never keep broken things. These include torn clothes or broken dishes. If something was not repaired immediately, the situation is unlikely to change in the future.
Tights with a crease even after darning will not look so great. There is no need to try to glue a broken favorite cup or vase - the seams will still be noticeable, and such objects attract bad energy. In addition, there is a pleasant reason to buy something new.
Rule of ten
This is very useful and trick. Its essence is that every week you need to throw away 10 unnecessary items. For example, in 7 days, used cosmetics jars, dead batteries, a stack of scribbled papers, holey socks, etc. can accumulate. The rest will be found in the depths of the closet or on the mezzanine.
Don't forget that different types Garbage needs to be disposed of in different ways. In particular, this applies to batteries and accumulators, plastic and glass containers.
Thanks to this technique, you will soon get rid of most unnecessary things, and absolutely “painlessly”.
Gifts for no reason
Another way to break up unnecessary things- donate them. Surely, in your closets there are purchases that are useless to you, gifts that have never been tried and other nonsense. Think about it, maybe someone you know could use it more. For example, you can buy an almost new food processor for a friend who loves to cook much more than you. Well, what if your gift doesn’t benefit her? Well, then relax, it's not your problem anymore :)
Learn to share
Children's things, books read, toys are memorabilia, but you can do without them. But there are people who lack precisely these things that are useless to you. Learn to share, no need to create a junk warehouse at home.
Find out if someone you know might need items that you have in your “stocks”.
Call orphanages and clarify the list of necessary items, or immediately directly transfer them packages with selected “goods.”
Take things to the volunteer center, so people in need have the opportunity to get what they lack.
This way you will do a good deed and parting with what you have accumulated will not be so difficult.
Source of additional income
There is another very useful way to get rid of unnecessary things in your apartment. Organize a sale! It’s very easy to do this today; you don’t need to stand in the market or in the courtyard of your house and offer goods to passers-by.
Create an ad on free sites for selling things. If an item is expensive, it would not be a bad idea to advertise it for a symbolic price.
Post an ad on your social media page. You can ask your friends to repost or send a message to thematic flea market groups.
Take your items to the consignment center. This is especially true for electronics and household appliances, as well as children's things and furniture.
An alternative option is to arrange a barter. You can negotiate with friends or on special websites. For example, you can exchange a skirt you are tired of for beautiful jewelry or a blouse in a fashionable color.
Limit the space
To prevent debris from accumulating again after general cleaning, limit the space available for storing it. The closets should be spacious and comfortable. Leave a separate drawer or bedside table for the most expensive and memorable things, select a suitcase or a beautiful box, but nothing more. Balcony, mezzanine, attic, top shelves of a closet, drawers in a chest of drawers - this is not a place for storing rubbish! Store here only what you really need.
The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise you risk throwing away something really important and necessary. To prevent the accumulation of junk in the future, reorganize your storage system. Surely you will have a lot of space freed up, so there is a reason to make a small rearrangement and update the interior.
What is trash is a truly philosophical question. This is the whole point: if you understand that there is rubbish, consider that you have gotten rid of it.
Trying to identify trash item by item is a hopeless endeavor. To some, egg shells are trash, but to others, valuable fertilizer for their favorite cabbage; to another, a bunch of old screws and bolts are junk, and to another, a future receiver with transistors. There are things that are rarely used, there are those that will never be useful, they lie and lie. Sometimes they still warm your soul, sometimes they don’t. Trash is precisely what is never used, lies like a dead weight and does not warm the soul, but only makes you want to put it away and not see it.
People aren't born trash, they become trash.
The process of turning a normal thing into trash is complex and mysterious; its reasons and features lie in our soul. This is a good thing, it’s a shame to throw it away, maybe it will come in handy. And a hopelessly out of fashion, but very high-quality coat or a bunch of children's onesies are sent to the mezzanine in anticipation of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In a couple of years, even the illusory hopes that the grandchildren will wear it will melt away, but it’s a good thing, it’s a shame to throw it away, in case it comes in handy.But this thing will definitely, definitely come in handy! And another board is dragged into the house, which should become a super chest of drawers self made, or a piece of fabric is bought, from which someday, when I learn to sew, I will make a dress. And it doesn’t matter that I’ll never learn to sew anyway...
But this wildly cute little thing, of course, won’t be useful at all. But she is so cute that there is simply no way to throw her away. And empty perfume bottles, coffee jars, candy boxes and old wall calendars with crumpled but wildly cute pictures are stored and stored in our house.
Sometimes very good, useful and necessary things become trash. Only they are useful and necessary not for us, but for someone else, and we, crushed by stereotypes in the spirit of “every decent family should have a crystal vase,” litter our house with cheese cutters, turbo mops, coffee sets and smart books that we don’t want to read even under pain of death penalty. All this is neatly stored in cabinets and never used in life, because it may be more pleasant to bite off a large piece of cheese and drink coffee from large mugs.
The space is very well cluttered with various (useless) little things that are rarely used and difficult to store. It’s much easier to buy new cake candles at X hour than to look for where you put the old ones.
The apartment is almost hopelessly cluttered with various large-sized rubbish. For example, an old, solid and dull wardrobe or chest of drawers. He will outlive you and your grandchildren, but your grandmother could no longer look at him without tears.
Junk is probably very good, but potentially unnecessary or hopelessly outdated things. All this accumulates, occupies cabinets, mezzanines and storage rooms, collects dust, fills the living space, requires care and consumes energy. We need to get rid of all this, and the sooner the better.
The fight against junk comes down, in essence, to just two actions. First, you need to understand that this is him in front of you. Secondly, you need to find the strength to throw him out of the house. And this should be done easily, playfully, so that not only your home, but also your inner world is cleared of trash.
14 ways to get rid of junk:
Let's play moving: While cleaning, periodically ask yourself the question: “If I were moving to a new apartment now, would I take this thing with me?” If the item is not needed new apartment, then why store it on this one?Matroskin's first lesson: If you want to get rid of junk and get pleasure from it, sell something unnecessary. Imagine that you have no money at all and you are forced to sell things. What would you sell first? So sell it, and use the proceeds to buy something you really need.
Matroskin's second lesson: To sell something unnecessary, you first need to buy something unnecessary. But we won’t do this. Before you buy a big thing, imagine what will happen to it in 5 years. You can’t imagine anything good or reasonable; you don’t need this thing.
“Boogie Woogie Throw Out 27”: Right now, get up and walk around your apartment with a garbage bag in your hands. You must find 27 things you don't need and throw them away immediately. The junk is right in front of you, you just need to look at it in a new way. Special attention Look for magazines, newspapers, expired medications, old batteries, broken pens and markers, empty cassette boxes, empty bottles, old sponges and rags, torn tights and socks.
Look at the item and ask yourself the following questions:
Do I love this thing? Have I used it within the past year?
Is this really trash?
Do I have the exact same thing, only better?
Do I really need two of these things?
I love this thing because it brings back emotional memories and feelings? Or does she make me feel guilty and sad when I see her?
Clear your room of anything that doesn't make you smile.
Man is a dog's friend: Get a puppy. A kitten, in principle, would also be suitable. Everything unnecessary will be quickly chewed up and torn to shreds. Everything that you thought you needed, but didn’t hide in time, too. And now you can throw it all away with a lighter conscience.
Organize a trash shed: Let’s be realistic - it’s impossible to achieve the ideal, you can’t completely get rid of the trash. Therefore, let’s give our household junk a cozy place, for example, a small bedside table. And we will store all the trash in this wonderful nightstand, and only in it. Sooner or later, the nightstand will be full, there will be nowhere to put a new portion of junk, and we will have to solve the problem of which of our household junk is junk, what to put in the nightstand, and what to throw out. An authorized viper is an extremely convenient thing: the amount of rubbish in the apartment is limited, everything is in one place, and at the same time, you don’t have to step on your pet peeves and completely get rid of old jars and cones put aside for a rainy day. But remember that there can only be one viper in the house.
Dacha season: Dacha is wonderful and useful. It helps to easily and without remorse rid the house of a boring good-quality chest of drawers, out-of-fashion curtains with teapots and old jeans, but here it is important not to go to extremes and not deliberately clutter the dacha itself.
In the best traditions: It seems that in Italy it is customary to New Year throw trash and old things out of the house. Isn't it a wonderful tradition? A holiday of renewal, a holiday of getting rid of junk. Be sure to celebrate it at least 2 times a year.
Garbage basket: With its help it is very convenient to get rid of various small things. However, if the basket is large, then it can also help in the fight against larger trash. All the things you don't know where to put; everything that you don’t know what to attach to; everything that you think will be useful to you, but is not yet clear how, you put in this basket. Let him lie down. Once a week, month, quarter, the entire contents of the basket are mercilessly thrown away. By that time, the really necessary things will have already been taken out of it, and everything else is trash.
Format the hard drive: This method helps well to deal with papers, documents, disks, photographs. Let's imagine that the filing cabinet is not a cabinet, but a hard drive that you have to format tomorrow. Everything valuable must be saved today. Everything else will be destroyed. Save what you have the strength and desire to do. These are truly valuable things. And it’s not a shame to throw away the rest.
Worse than the Tatar: This method is similar to the previous one, but requires truly samurai endurance from the performer. First you hide everything valuable, and then you invite guests and offer to take away whatever they like from the rest. As an additional bonus, you get the opportunity not to take the trash out of the apartment - the guests will take everything out themselves.
Gifts that are not needed: I would like to say separately about the pile of unnecessary gifts that fills our home several times a year. A napkin from Marya Petrovna from the personnel, a vase from Elena Mikhailovna from the accounting department, an apron on duty from her mother-in-law, 24 postcards “to my beloved to the class teacher from 7 “b””... It’s good if the gifts have receipts and can be returned to the store. If there are no receipts, unnecessary gifts can be re-gifted. A napkin - for my beloved mother-in-law, a vase - for Marya Petrovna. It will be more difficult with postcards, but you can also get rid of them - write on a postcard for each student words of gratitude in response and return them back. The main thing is to nip the “inconvenient and dishonest” complexes in yourself, it’s inconvenient to store all this, and it’s dishonest to throw it in the trash.
If you can’t change the world, then change your attitude towards it: If you stubbornly fail to throw away trash, you can change your attitude towards it. For example, you can declare yourself a collector, and then your school folder with crumpled postcards will become not junk, but a collection. You can’t throw away the bronze chandelier that your beloved mother-in-law decided to keep in your apartment? Call it a family heirloom and tells guests stories and legends associated with these antiques. When getting rid of junk, it is important not to go to two extremes: on the one hand, not to turn into Plyushkin and still rid your home of various junk, on the other hand, you must remember that, in fact, we need some old and unnecessary things.
A few words in defense of trash: Probably, each of us as a child dreamed of a house with a large attic filled with all sorts of things; or at least about grandma’s big chest, where every time you find something new and interesting. Probably, today you should start creating such a chest for your future grandchildren. Yes, and we ourselves sometimes need to look at the dress in which you danced at the prom, or even at the corner in which you were discharged from the maternity hospital; reread old letters and newspapers, paint all over the bathroom mirror with expired lipstick, smile at a teddy bear with a torn paw...
There is no use fighting this. The desire to drag a lot of valuable things into their burrow and keep them longer is characteristic of all living things, even gophers. All that remains is to relax and enjoy. You can also optimize your inventory, its position in space, and your attitude towards it.
What is trash is a truly philosophical question. This is the whole point: if you understand that there is rubbish, consider that you have gotten rid of it.
Trying to identify trash item by item is a hopeless endeavor. To some, egg shells are trash, but to others, valuable fertilizer for their favorite cabbage; to another, a bunch of old screws and bolts are junk, and to another, a future receiver with transistors. There are things that are rarely used, there are those that will never be useful, they lie and lie. Sometimes they still warm your soul, sometimes they don’t. Trash is precisely what is never used, lies like a dead weight and does not warm the soul, but only makes you want to put it away and not see it.
People aren't born trash, they become trash.
The process of turning a normal thing into trash is complex and mysterious; its reasons and features lie in our soul. This is a good thing, it’s a shame to throw it away, maybe it will come in handy. And a hopelessly out of fashion, but very high-quality coat or a bunch of children's onesies are sent to the mezzanine in anticipation of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In a couple of years, even the illusory hopes that the grandchildren will wear it will melt away, but it’s a good thing, it’s a shame to throw it away, in case it comes in handy.
But this thing will definitely, definitely come in handy! And another board is dragged into the house, which should become a super handmade chest of drawers, or a piece of fabric is bought, from which someday, when I learn to sew, I will sew a dress. And it doesn’t matter that I’ll never learn to sew anyway...
But this wildly cute little thing, of course, won’t be useful at all. But she is so cute that there is simply no way to throw her away. And empty perfume bottles, coffee jars, candy boxes and old wall calendars with crumpled but wildly cute pictures are stored and stored in our house.
Sometimes very good, useful and necessary things become trash. Only they are useful and necessary not for us, but for someone else, and we, crushed by stereotypes in the spirit of “every decent family should have a crystal vase,” litter our house with cheese cutters, turbo mops, coffee sets and smart books that we don’t want to read even under pain of death penalty. All this is neatly stored in cabinets and never used in life, because it may be more pleasant to bite off a large piece of cheese and drink coffee from large mugs.
The space is very well cluttered with various (useless) little things that are rarely used and difficult to store. It’s much easier to buy new cake candles at X hour than to look for where you put the old ones.
The apartment is almost hopelessly cluttered with various large-sized rubbish. For example, an old, solid and dull wardrobe or chest of drawers. He will outlive you and your grandchildren, but your grandmother could no longer look at him without tears.
Trash- these are possibly very good, but potentially unnecessary or hopelessly outdated things. All this accumulates, occupies cabinets, mezzanines and storage rooms, collects dust, fills the living space, requires care and consumes energy. We need to get rid of all this, and the sooner the better.
Fight against trash comes down, in essence, to just two actions. First, you need to understand that this is him in front of you. Secondly, you need to find the strength to throw him out of the house. And this should be done easily, playfully, so that not only your home, but also your inner world is cleared of trash.
14 ways to get rid of junk:
- Let's play moving: While cleaning, periodically ask yourself the question: “If I were moving to a new apartment now, would I take this thing with me?” If an item is not needed in a new apartment, then why store it in this one?
- Matroskin's first lesson: If you want to get rid of junk and get pleasure from it, sell something unnecessary. Imagine that you have no money at all and you are forced to sell things. What would you sell first? So sell it, and use the proceeds to buy something you really need.
- Matroskin's second lesson: To sell something unnecessary, you first need to buy something unnecessary. But we won’t do this. Before you buy a big thing, imagine what will happen to it in 5 years. You can’t imagine anything good or reasonable; you don’t need this thing.
- “Boogie Woogie Throw Out 27”: Right now, get up and walk around your apartment with a garbage bag in your hands. You must find 27 things you don't need and throw them away immediately. The junk is right in front of you, you just need to look at it in a new way. Pay special attention to magazines, newspapers, expired medications, old batteries, broken pens and markers, empty cassette boxes, empty bottles, old sponges and rags, torn tights and socks.
- Throw it out by flylady: Look at the thing and ask yourself the following questions:
- Do I love this thing?
- Have I used it within the past year?
- Is this really trash?
- Do I have the exact same thing, only better?
- Do I really need two of these things?
- I love this thing because it brings back emotional memories and feelings?
- Or does she make me feel guilty and sad when I see her?
- Clear your room of anything that doesn't make you smile.
- Man is a dog's friend: Get a puppy. A kitten, in principle, would also be suitable. Everything unnecessary will be quickly chewed up and torn to shreds. Everything that you thought you needed, but didn’t hide in time, too. And now you can throw it all away with a lighter conscience.
- Organize a viper: Let's be realistic - it is impossible to achieve the ideal, completely get rid of trash it is forbidden. Therefore, let’s give our household junk a cozy place, for example, a small bedside table. And we will store all the trash in this wonderful nightstand, and only in it. Sooner or later, the nightstand will be full, there will be nowhere to put a new portion of junk, and we will have to solve the problem of which of our household junk is junk, what to put in the nightstand, and what to throw out. An authorized viper is an extremely convenient thing: the amount of rubbish in the apartment is limited, everything is in one place, and at the same time, you don’t have to step on your pet peeves and completely get rid of old jars and cones put aside for a rainy day. But remember that there can only be one viper in the house.
- Dacha season: Dacha is wonderful and useful. It helps to easily and without remorse rid the house of a boring good-quality chest of drawers, out-of-fashion curtains with teapots and old jeans, but here it is important not to go to extremes and not deliberately clutter the dacha itself.
- In the best traditions: It seems that in Italy it is customary to throw out trash and old things from the house on New Year's Day. Isn't it a wonderful tradition? A holiday of renewal, a holiday of getting rid of junk. Be sure to celebrate it at least 2 times a year.
- Garbage basket: With its help it is very convenient to get rid of various small things. However, if the basket is large, then it can also help in the fight against larger trash. All the things you don't know where to put; everything that you don’t know what to attach to; everything that you think will be useful to you, but is not yet clear how, you put in this basket. Let him lie down. Once a week, month, quarter, the entire contents of the basket are mercilessly thrown away. By that time, the really necessary things will have already been extracted from it, and everything else will be trash.
- Format the hard drive: This method helps well to deal with papers, documents, disks, photographs. Let's imagine that the filing cabinet is not a cabinet, but a hard drive that you have to format tomorrow. Everything valuable must be saved today. Everything else will be destroyed. Save what you have the strength and desire to do. These are truly valuable things. And it’s not a shame to throw away the rest.
- Worse than the Tatar: This method is similar to the previous one, but requires truly samurai endurance from the performer. First you hide everything valuable, and then you invite guests and offer to take away whatever they like from the rest. As an additional bonus, you get the opportunity not to take the trash out of the apartment - the guests will take everything out themselves.
- Gifts that are not needed: I would like to say separately about the pile of unnecessary gifts that fills our home several times a year. A napkin from Marya Petrovna from the personnel, a vase from Elena Mikhailovna from the accounting department, an apron on duty from the mother-in-law, 24 postcards “to your favorite class teacher from 7 “b””... It’s good if the gifts have receipts and they can be returned to the store. If there are no receipts, unnecessary gifts can be re-gifted. A napkin - for my beloved mother-in-law, a vase - for Marya Petrovna. It will be more difficult with postcards, but you can also get rid of them - write words of gratitude in response to each student on a postcard and return them back. The main thing is to nip the “inconvenient and dishonest” complexes in yourself, it’s inconvenient to store all this, and it’s dishonest to throw it in the trash.
- If you can’t change the world, then change your attitude towards it: If you stubbornly fail to throw away trash, you can change your attitude towards it. For example, you can declare yourself a collector, and then your school folder with crumpled postcards will become not junk, but a collection. You can’t throw away the bronze chandelier that your beloved mother-in-law decided to keep in your apartment? Call it a family heirloom and tells guests the stories and legends associated with this antique.
When getting rid of junk, it is important not to go to two extremes: on the one hand, not to turn into Plyushkin and still rid your home of various junk, on the other hand, you must remember that, in fact, some are old and unnecessary we need things.
He approaches unnoticed. It takes up all the corners, cabinets, drawers and space under the bed. It’s easy to let it into your home, but it’s very, very difficult to get rid of it. His name is Junk. How to get rid of junk in an apartment, how to recognize which things are unnecessary?
Rubbish accumulates gradually, remains when you don’t dare to throw something away, and is brought into the house with the next guests who are not aware of your tastes and give completely unnecessary gifts. Today we offer a small reminder for those who are wondering how to get rid of junk in their apartment and cannot decide what to throw away and what not.
Get rid of junk: what things are unnecessary in our home?
Things (equipment, dishes, clothes) that broken/torn and can't be repaired
Things that are spoiled and that you set aside to fix and then forgot- and they have been in a damaged state for more than 1 year. If you haven’t gotten around to it in a year, it means you don’t really need this thing, but you’ve managed just fine without it for the last 365 days.
Clothes that have become too small, too big, frayed, worn out, morally outdated, tired, or simply don’t like them and you don’t wear them, but carefully move them from place to place every time. You can leave a couple of pants and sweaters in case of repairs or work at the dacha; it’s time to get rid of all the other trash. It’s a good one, but (follow the link - I’ll tell you how) via the Internet.
Medicines– go through your first aid kit: all expired tablets and jars must be urgently expelled.
Outdated documents, printouts, checks and receipts- another category of clearly unnecessary things. Periodically, it is worth looking through your own diaries, receipts for payment of various services, warranty cards, checks, discount coupons, notes and photocopies - if something is out of date, feel free to throw it away.
Unnecessary gifts: souvenirs, etc. Unfortunately, this happens to everyone: we all receive gifts that are unnecessary, inappropriate, or that we simply don’t like. The fact that this is a gift should not deter you from taking a decisive step: get rid of unnecessary things that will never be useful to you; if something is in good condition, give it away. If you wish, you can take a photograph of what has been preserved in acceptable condition and - I just recently wrote an article about the nuances of selling used things.
Postcards and remembering other people's memories. Of course you can leave a couple greeting cards, preserved from childhood, to later show to grandchildren, but to carefully preserve a dried flower from a friend’s wedding, lottery ticket, according to which your mother won $20 three years ago or a drawing by a friend cousin- not the most rational solution.
Next should go a box of chocolates given to you by your grandmother for the New Year before last, and a ticket from your first plane flight, and a happy birthday card from the bank whose card you use - with all this “good” you will never get rid of the junk in your apartment.
By the way, if you are leaving postcards or children’s drawings, there is no point in keeping them in a box on the mezzanine - create a memory board where you will keep the most memorable and precious mementos. If something is expensive, but not so expensive that you can keep it in person for the rest of your life, snap it on a camera and store it electronically.
In the summer, many people start renovations or general cleaning of their apartment. This is the time to declutter without regret. Trash is an amazing variety of objects that fill our living space and quietly whisper to us: “You won’t throw me away, what if I’m still useful?”
As a result, a home, regardless of its size, is gradually filled with a thousand things that we can do perfectly well without: here you can find perfume bottles, old postcards, newspapers and magazines, blouses that we no longer wear, coffee sets, which coffee has never been drunk, and juicers, the juice from which was extracted exactly four times two years ago.
We need to get rid of all this, we understand that. But how to do this? It's a pity!
There are many ways to convince yourself to get rid of this or that junk. All you have to do is choose one or more that will help you.
Method one
Imagine that tomorrow you are moving to another apartment. Today you need to have time to get together, review all your things and decide: what goes to waste, what can be given to friends or relatives, and what you really can’t do without. The ideal option is to “move” to a smaller and cramped apartment than the one you live in today.
Method two
We continue to use our imagination. Imagine that you are suddenly left without any money, and the only way out- sell “something unnecessary” (according to Matroskin). And now it’s quite simple: select from the existing things what can be sold without much grief. And then - really sell it! Doesn't work? Then donate!
Method three
Take a large trash bag. Now set yourself a task: right now, collect exactly 27 items in it that can be thrown away. If you do this at least once a week, you can quickly eliminate most of trash. Agree: in the apartment there are always 27 torn socks, expired batteries, worn out tights, non-working pens and markers, old magazines and empty coffee cans.
Method four
Organize a “junk cabinet” in your home. Put in it those things that seem to be completely unnecessary in the household, but for some reason it’s a pity to part with them.
Here you can store cute boxes of sweets and bottles of your favorite perfume, expired lipstick for a while beautiful color, newspapers with recipes that you are unlikely to cook with, and children's onesies (completely intact!), from which your child has grown out of for about 10 years. In addition, you can put here all the items that you will definitely need, but it is not yet clear how and when.
But remember: there can only be one such bedside table! When it is filled to capacity, you will have to make room in it for new rubbish, which means something will inevitably go to the trash heap.
Method five
Unnecessary and unsuccessful gifts are a real scourge of limited living space. After all, it is inconvenient to throw away what was given to you, perhaps with love: an apron from your mother-in-law, a vase from Angelina Petrovna from the next department, a porcelain dog from a colleague and a book about tasty and healthy food from your grandmother.
And don’t throw it away! Make a knight's move: give an apron to your grandmother, a cookbook to Angelina Petrovna, a vase to a colleague, and a dog to your mother-in-law. Or vice versa. And everyone will be happy! 
Method six
Make a strict rule in your home: every day before going to bed, devote 10 minutes to removing everything unnecessary. Look around the surrounding space with your master's eye. Have you read the newspapers? In the trash! Are your socks torn? Well, don’t darn them - they’re in the trash! Does your refrigerator smell something suspicious? Carry out an immediate inspection; everything that has gone bad goes in the trash! Running out of deodorant? There is no point in storing the bottle, we throw everything away mercilessly and mercilessly!
At the same time, the main thing is not to succumb to laziness, which will inevitably replace the liberating impulse of the first days. Tell yourself: I won’t go to sleep until I clear my house of garbage!
Method seven
Closets with clothes are an amazing breeding ground for junk! Let's do this. We take out each item, twirl it in our hands and think: when was the last time we put it on? The rule is very simple: if an item has not been worn for a year, it will never be worn! This means that you either need to throw it away or give it to a friend, sister, neighbor or colleague. It depends on the degree of wear, size, color and general view. We only leave what we really like and can’t imagine our wardrobe without.
If you don’t raise your hand to get rid of old things, remember the unwritten law: a new one will soon take the place of the old thing! Let this comfort you.
If it is already indecent to give THIS or there is no one, and it’s a pity to throw it in the trash (the whole thing) - just put everything in 
a large package and place it near the entrance. The owner will be found quickly!
If you strictly follow at least one of the above rules, very soon you will learn not to let your living space become cluttered. For the future: before you buy something, ask yourself: will it soon become trash?
By getting rid of everything unnecessary, you not only free up space: you cleanse your soul. Yes, yes, these are not just words: in a cleanly tidied house, thoughts flow somehow differently, more orderly and calm, and bright ideas come to mind more often, and in general, the mood improves!
Let getting rid of junk become not a boring chore for you, but a holiday or an adventure. After everything unnecessary has been thrown away, be sure to do a wet cleaning and ventilate the apartment, admire the work of your hands and praise yourself for the work done. Now is the time to drink a cup of aromatic tea or coffee, and maybe even go to a cafe with friends.
And lastly
Don't overdo it! After all, in such an economic impulse, you can throw away something really necessary and dear to your heart, mistakenly taken for trash. For example, an album with old family photographs that will be so interesting for your children and grandchildren to look at. Or my daughter’s first drawings. Or a handful of cogs and bolts, which, perhaps, will soon turn into a transistor receiver in the skillful hands of his son...