Decluttering
A Third Age Home & Lifestyle Feature
by our Home & Lifestyle Editor

Clutter can broadly be defined as those things that we have bought or collected over the years that we keep for no apparent reason other than that we can’t quite bring ourselves to throw them away because one day we might find a need for them.

Clutter is old correspondence, magazines and newspapers, clothes that fitted and suited us, once, pens that might still work and jars that might one day be useful if ever we decide to take up jam making or start pickling our own onions.

Clutter is that assortment of items we keep in boxes in the loft because we don’t know what else to do with them. The same items, the same boxes we’ve lugged around with us since our student days. Clutter is all those useless little knickknacks that we collect that serve no real purpose except to clog up our homes, clog up our lives and keep us in the past.

No matter what something cost 20 years ago, if you don’t use it, get rid of it. The cost to you in terms of not being able to enter your Third Age without all that clutter from the past is far greater. It’s that stuff that will hold you in the past and stop you moving forward. There will never be a better time to take control of your life instead of it being controlled by things that meant something to you all those years ago. You have a golden opportunity to start over in your Third Age. Don’t waste it!

Sue Kay’s bestselling book “No More Clutter” has helped thousands declutter their homes and lives!

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