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Now that you have recycled or found new homes for your unwanted stuff, you are left to organize the stuff you want to keep. The pile of stuff to fix should be fairly small and easy to organize. Designate a place in your home to store these items. It could be a mending basket in the laundry room, or a dedicated shelf in the garage. Wherever it is, it must be easily accessible – you don’t want this stuff to get lost at the back of a cupboard again!

The last, and likely largest, pile of stuff is comprised of the keepers. To create a storage strategy, it will be necessary to split this pile up into further categories.

Maybe you have saved some older household items to give to a child or grandchild when they move out on their own. These are things that you will never use again and can be packed up, clearly marked and stored until they are needed again. Seasonal stuff – like holiday decorations, winter and summer sports equipment – will go unused for the better part of a year, and can be stored away as well. If you have limited storage in your home, consider keeping these items in a self-storage unit.

Designate specific locations for other types of stuff as well. Extra bedding can be stored in a closet, and out of season clothing can go in the basement, for example. Regardless of where you choose to put your freshly organized belongings, make sure they are all together in one place. It will make your search for your favourite blue sweater much easier if you know that all the winter clothes are in the basement, and all the sweaters are in container labeled “sweaters”.