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12 HAWAII RENOVATION FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Tips when you get the urge to purge your home
In many cultures worldwide, it’s traditional to clean out your home at the begin-
ning of a new year. It’s un- derstandable — New Year’s brings with it the urge for a clean slate and a fresh start. And as you’ve been spending more time in your home this year, you’re probably more aware of the need to clear out than ever before.
Here are some easy ways you can declutter this season.
START WITH TROUBLE SPOTS
Take note of areas in your house that are in seri- ous need of purging. Is your pantry overcrowded? Your fridge stuffed to the gills? Or maybe your garage no longer has room for one car inside, much less two? Start- ing with an area that bugs
you the most can give you the most satisfaction when you clear it out.
While you sort through the trouble spot, use sturdy bins or boxes to sort items to donate or recycle as well as to discard items that are no longer useful. Check your lo- cal authorities for guidelines about proper recycling as well as how to discard po- tentially hazardous materials.
TIME FOR A CUPBOARD DE-CLUTTER
Kitchens are a prime source of clutter frustration. How many times have you opened a cupboard to have items literally falling out on you, or had to rummage through several drawers to find just the one utensil you need?
Assemble all your food
storage containers to see which have duplicate or miss- ing lids. This is a great time to upgrade to newer products that will serve your needs better. Consider, for exam- ple, stackable EasyFindLidsTM food storage containers from Rubbermaid. The lids snap onto the container bases and other same-size lids for easy organization — eliminating the need to ever hunt for a matching lid again.
Make way for new food storage containers by recy- cling all your older (or lidless!) ones. Rubbermaid® has partnered with TerraCycle® to provide a convenient re- cycling solution for well- used plastic and glass food storage containers. All you do is sign up on terracycle. com and download a prepaid shipping label. Pack up your
old food storage containers, ship them to TerraCycle at no cost, and they take care of the rest.
Go through your pots and pans, considering which ones you really don’t use, and do- nate the excess. If there are some items you only use once a year, consider find- ing a new home for them in a closet that won’t take up valuable real estate needed by your daily-use items.
CLEAR YOUR CLOSETS
This can be a whole-fam- ily project — trying on old clothes and seeing what you and your family can’t or don’t want to wear anymore. If kids are reluctant, make it into a game! See what silly outfits you can conjure up when you mix and match old tops and pants in creative new ways.
Then challenge kids to find methods to organize their shirts or socks that make sense to them.
Donate clean, gently used items so others can make good use of them. You’ll love all the space in your closets — and how much easier it is
for everyone to find things. Clearing out your home can be extremely satisfying and reinvigorating — leaving you and your home feeling
refreshed.
This article is courtesy of Brandpoint.
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