Keep or Toss? Ask These 5 Questions

In this order. Stop at the first clear answer.

I can organize a drawer in ten minutes and then lose forty to a single sweater. These five questions are how I get unstuck.

The sheet, in text

1. Have I used it in the last year? A full year covers every season and every holiday.
2. Would I buy it again today? What you paid is gone either way. Only the space is still costing you.
3. Do I own a better one? Keep the best, release the backups.
4. Does it have a home? If you cannot name where it lives, it lives on the counter.
5. Am I keeping it out of guilt? The gift did its job when it was given.

Two answers pointing to toss? It goes. No maybe pile.

What I would actually use for this

Do the sheet first. If you still need something afterwards, these are the ones from my own shortlist that fit this job.

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