Clutter-friendly Ways to Give, Receive, Downsize, and Regift Gifts

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Gracious Regifting

This week’s assignment is to make space for new incoming gifts by eliminating something that no longer serves you, even though it was a gift.

• Identify an item you received as a gift that you no longer love, need, use, or wish to display.
• Reflect on possible recipients for the item:
  • Has someone you know expressed a fondness or desire for the item?
  • Can you think of a person or organization who could make good use of the item, such as a women’s shelter?
  • Do you have a resale or charity shop that you like to patronize?
• Take a moment to express your gratitude to the person who gave you the gift. You may do this directly, if that person is still living, or just voice your thankfulness privately—either out loud or in your own thoughts.
• Before you send the item on, take a picture as a way to memorialize the gift and the giver.
• Pass along the item as the final way in which you honor the gift.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.