When you are taking on the task to declutter your home, there is one ability that is the most important above all others: The ability to throw things away.
If your home is cluttered, the problem is pretty simple: You have too much stuff. And no amount of creative rearranging is going to make you have less. If you want to declutter your home, you are going to have to figure out how to throw things away. If you have a problem with this, start small. Start by going through one drawer of your dresser or one drawer in your filing cabinet. Go through the drawer and make it your goal to get rid of anything that is old or that you don't use anymore. Avoid the urge to keep things that you might need someday. Often these are things that we never use and never will.
You can also start this by throwing away things that you know are old or that you don't need. I have a compulsion to keep food, sometimes past its expiration date. Because I know I would have a problem if I looked in the trash and saw a huge pile of food, I throw away things in stages. I went through the door shelves of the refrigerator one week and threw away old things. I went through the pantry another week. This step-by-step approach helped me declutter our pantry, refrigerator and cabinets without the difficulty of looking at a pile of food in the trash can.
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