Let your home be a space for you to live in, not for the zillions of little and big ‘things’ you own, and sometimes hoard. As we grow comfortable in our little place we like to call home, tiny inconsequential things too find place and space in our adobe. Their numbers flourish with passing time making us weak-kneed to get rid of them altogether. We hold on to a flimsy hope that someday, somewhere we might need that little object we bought all those years ago.
The point is, if you haven’t looked for them in the past year, implausible you might in the coming ones. Rid your home and mind of clutter by junking these 100 items.
Be ruthless. Do it right now (before any kind of creeping guilt sets in). Throw these 100 things away!
- Mobile phone instruction manual
- Sunglasses case of a long lost pair
- Old electricity bills
- Old bank statements
- Business cards of people you met many years ago
- Used toothbrush
- Old calendars
- Envelope that once held your appointment letter
- Tattered towel
- Pen lids
- Food takeout boxes
- Empty cosmetic containers
- Books from your 6th grade
- Shoe with the broken heel
- Sandal with the broken strap
- Old kitchen hand towel
- Empty perfume bottles
- Empty wine bottles
- Fully weathered handbag
- Wallet from your college times
- Tickets to a movie
- Boarding pass of your last international trip
- Luggage tags issued at the airport
- 50 paise coins unless you are a numismatic
- Old love letters
- Spare buttons
- Packing boxes of electronic items
- Old leather jacket with a broken zipper
- Salad dressing that has long expired
- Spices bought five years back
- Empty tomato sauce bottles
- Tomato ketchup sachets long expired
- Belt with a broken buckle
- Chipped off coffee mugs
- Used wrapping paper
- Medicines beyond their expiry date
- Used beer bottles
- Bobby pins you used 5 years back
- Empty medicine bottles
- Fused bulbs
- Broken door handle
- Socks with puncture holes
- Old pressure cooker
- Underwear with holes in them
- Chair with broken armrest
- Used up notepad
- Pens without refill
- Lid of long discarded containers
- Shopping receipts from last year
- Broken clothes hanger
- Damaged non-stick cookware
- Cables you don’t use
- Broken electric switches
- Necklace with broken clasp
- Wedding invitation cards
- Old prescriptions
- Expired baking powder
- Pans with broken handle
- Broken cutlery
- Faded bed linen
- Old swimwear
- Expired gift vouchers
- Old Petrol bills
- Audio cassettes
- Comb with broken tooth
- Unused shampoo sachets
- Expired discount coupons
- Over-sized knitted swear with holes
- Old cushions
- Worn out shoe laces
- Old pen stands
- Photo frames with broken clasps
- Worn out foot mats
- Bowls you don’t have the entire sets of
- Charger of a mobile you don’t use
- Old stationary
- Table mats you bought 10 years back
- Used naphthalene balls
- Old ripped jeans that don’t fit you anymore
- Cough syrup post their expiry date
- Identity card of a company you’ve long left
- Old movie posters
- Hat you bought at a safari
- ATM mini statements
- Bubble wraps
- Key rings never used for years
- Old helmet
- Dried up nail polish bottles
- Old pair of gloves
- Grocery bills from last year
- Rusting safety pins
- Chocolate wrapper
- Drained batteries
- Walkman from college times
- Travel brochures
- Old greeting cards
- Worn out leather belt
- Vases you stopped using
- Old shopping bags
- Soap dishes
Join the Conversation