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20 TIPS TO EFFECTIVE DOWNSIZING

1. Your Goal is to simplify your life as you move from the family home to a smaller home.
2. The aim is to get rid of as much of your possessions as possible as you downsize your possessions.
3. You don’t have to get rid of everything – downsizing is a sorting process.
4. Whittle down the years of accumulated belongings to the key items you want to take with you.
5. Keep the favorite possessions you want to have around and enjoy in the next phase of your life.
6. Do a ‘possessions audit’ and try and imagine these items in your new home.
7. Start with the areas of your home that you are not using. Start the sorting and clearing in these rooms
8. Start with the large items and work your way down the smaller ones.
9. Use lists and checklists this saves the stress of too much remembering and thinking.
10. Use stickers to identify the items you want to keep and the ones you want to remove.
11. Separate items that are to be thrown out, kept, given away or sold.
12. Put the items into separate piles.
13. Place the items you want to throw out into garbage bags.
14. Call the charity of your choice and arrange with them for pickup and delivery of items you are donating to the charity. Make sure if they pick up that it is worth their while.
15. Make arrangements with your family and friends to pick up or have delivered the items you are giving to them.
16. Take your time doing the downsizing. Don’t rush. Make careful and well thought out decisions. After all this is the accumulation of your life’s possessions.
17. Do not be too hard on yourself. If you are upset by doing this take the time to remember memories and let the tears fall if you have to.
18. If you take your time doing this then you will have time to change your mind if you have to as the items are still in your possession.
19. Do a little bit every day. You can’t eat an elephant all at once but you can eat it bite by bite!
20. Consider getting new furniture for your new place. It will make your new space feel better and make the decision of downsizing your old furniture easier.