Dry January, but For Stuff

Essential Next Steps challenges you to get rid of one thing every day during the month of January. 

At the end of the month, you are 30 items lighter! It’s a fun and easy way to create clean, clear space!

Here are some ideas:

Bathrooms – old make up, old nail polish, old razors, old towels, expired medicines, old or almost empty cleaning products, promotional make up travel bags (do you really need 10?), shoe polish kits

Kitchen – expired food, expired spices, that bag of bags, utensils you no longer use, condiment packets, packaged take-out utensils, promotional cups, grips and magnets, that old can of tomato juice for when the dog gets skunked

Closet – clothes that no longer fit, clothes you no longer wear, old shoes, old bags, old ties, boots you’ve forgotten you have, formal wear you wore way back when, extra clothes hangers, the bags to store your purses in that you never use, empty shoeboxes

Bedroom - books you’ve finished, books you know you’re not going to read, too weak cheaters, old eyeglass cases, unclaimed power cords, mismatched sheets, the third dog bed when you have two dogs and one sleeps on your bed and other sleeps on the couch

Office - old papers, old files, old billing statements, old checkbooks, old closing documents from three houses ago, old eyeglasses

Garage – old paint cans, old tile, old sports equipment, old yard equipment, empty totes (use those to collect things you’re getting rid of), anything stashed there because there was no other place to put it

Attic – Timmy’s and Sally’s childhood toys (they are now 40 and 42 years old), Christmas decor you haven’t pulled out in years, and anything stashed there because there was no other place to put it