It’s the Little Things: The Organizing Challenges of Small Items

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.

Sweat the Small Stuff

This week’s assignment is to take control of a collection of small items:

• Select a set of related small objects that you’ve been ignoring or overlooking. If there’s no such collection in plain sight in your home, check drawers, shelves, and hidden boxes. (You might find several caches of similar items squirreled away in different places.)
• Collect all the related items you’ve found into one place, such as a large box, bin, or work surface.
• Sort like with like. You may find things that already have an assigned storage location elsewhere in your home. Take this opportunity to move these items to their rightful places.
• Make a keep/toss pass through the remaining cache to purge anything that’s expired, broken beyond repair, redundant, or no longer wanted or needed.
• Now that you’ve narrowed the collection down to the stuff you plan to keep, choose a container of appropriate size and shape to hold and display the collection so that it’s easy to find items and return them when you’ve finished using them.

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