• Start with 5 minutes at a time. If you’re new to decluttering, you can slowly build momentum with just five minutes a day.

• Give one item away each day. This would remove 365 items every single year from your home. If you increased this to 2 per day, you would have given away 730 items you no longer needed. Increase this number once it gets too easy.

• Fill an entire trash bag. Get a trash bag and fill it as fast as you can with things you can donate at Goodwill.

• Donate clothes you never wear. To identify them, simply hang all your clothes with hangers in the reverse direction. After wear...