NATIONAL GET ORGANIZED MONTH
Tips to Consider When Decluttering Your Home and Getting Organized:
Reimagine your living space: The new year is the perfect time to spruce up your home and make room for new furniture or décor that fits your current style. Think about how you want your updated space to look. Check out Pinterest, Instagram or magazines for inspiration. You can even talk to an interior designer about how best to decorate and furnish any room to achieve the exact look you’d like without the guess work.
Make a list and check it twice: A big part of updating and/or decluttering your space is getting organized. As you work, create a list of items you own and separate them into two columns, specifying those you want to keep and those you want to sell or donate. Make sure that if you keep an item, it has a designated spot in your home. Then, you’ll know where to put it each time you clean.
Start a keepsake collection: When updating your space, you will inevitably find items you just cannot part with because they are family heirlooms or other special items you want to hold onto. Save those special items in a keepsake box for yourself or to pass them down to another family member.
Out with the old and in with the new: So, you have a plan to update your new space, now what? What do you do with your existing furniture and other items you no longer need? That’s the easy part. You can sell your old furnishings and other items or donate them to your local Goodwill store to give them a second life. When you drop off your items, go into the store to see if there’s anything that fits your new aesthetic. You never know what you’ll find, and shopping secondhand is better for the environment and the people in our community.
Where to Donate: Goodwill Southwest Florida welcomes donations that people are willing to give. We use the revenue generated from the sale of donations throughout our stores, and online, to provide workforce development and employability training, digital skills certifications and credentials, small business development and disability services. Ninety-four cents of every dollar raised in our stores, goes directly to fund these services and training.
We encourage anyone who is in the process of cleaning out their belongings to donate. Perfectly reusable clothing and household products with the exception of broken or soiled items can be donated to a local Goodwill store, or Attended Donation Center. Visit www.goodwillswfl.org for a list of donation locations.
