Clutter Hacks: Five-minute Tasks that Pack a Big Decluttering Punch

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.

Declutter Your Pampered Pets

This week’s assignment is inspired by a viewer e-mail from Jane in Florida, who writes, “I have just one dog, Angel, a chihuahua mix, but she has four beds in my bedroom, one in the living room, one under the dining room table, and two in the closet. I don’t want to give up so much floor space. But she looks so cute when she sleeps in the different beds! Obviously, I am not the alpha dog here.”

In honor of Angel the chihuahua, our Weekly Tittle is to tackle your pets’ possessions:

• Pass along the old collars and beds, forgotten toys, extra food dishes, and rejected food.
• Clear away stashes of items that belonged to pets who have passed away.
• Clean the items you’ve collected to the best of your ability, then donate them to an animal rescue organization or shelter.
• If you don’t have a pet, handle a box of baby or child paraphernalia that’s still taking up space in your home.

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