These bins are from Target, but these exact ones aren’t currently on their website. (I knew that since our boys are young, their bins would have extra room in them to add items as they get older.) ![]() As we were decluttering, I kept in mind that ideally, all of the mementos we wanted to keep would be limited to the one bin per person. Whenever we decided to take on the project of decluttering our sentimental items, I went to Target and bought four sturdy plastic bins, one for each member of our family. It’s Helpful to Set a Limit to Shoot For I did have a #momfail moment as I was going through our mementos, realizing that I had created two baby books for Connor (age 10) when he was an infant and Caleb (age 7), didn’t even have one! (Is that the typical second child treatment or what?! ?) So we ended up printing a selection of his baby pictures and putting them in an album so he would have something to represent the first few years of his life! These are most of the sentimental items I ended up keeping, including baby books, albums from high school and college, and our wedding album. Rather than having 1000 photos from my high school years to go through, for example, I simply kept a scrapbook that my mom had put together for my graduation that accurately represented the most important moments of that period of my life, and I could discard most other things from that time because they already were accounted for in the album. In a similar way to what I talked about with collections, I found myself appreciating scrapbooks and albums like baby books because they often took the best, most memorable photos and items from a period of time and arranged them in a logical way. Albums Are a Great Way to Represent a Period of Time So rather than keep the entire collection just to keep them, I chose one angel that was really special to represent that connection with her, and I let go of the rest.Ī side effect that I didn’t really expect was that now that one angel seems even more special because it is just a single representation of something I cherish, whereas the collection was just too much to deal with so I kept it packed away. Many of them were broken or worn or dated looking. For example, my late grandmother had given me a bunch of angels, which were meaningful because they were reminders of her.īut they stayed in a box, packed away. I had a few collections of items that I kept because either the person who gave them to me was meaningful or the collection itself had meaning to me at one time. I Kept One Item that Represented a Collection of Items Yes, please! Tips and Tricks for Decluttering Sentimental Itemsĭecluttering can be tough in and of itself, but when it comes to mementos that have a special meaning behind them, it can be especially difficult! There were a few simple things I figured out during the process that helped me choose what to keep and what to discard. When we started, Donnie was actually the big winner, with several boxes of items that he needed to go through. When I decided to take on the project of organizing our entire basement in the month of January, sentimental items were one of the first things I began to sort through. Marie lists this category last on her list when she talks about going through each area of the home to declutter because sentimental items and mementos are often the hardest items to part with.Īdmittedly, we had thrown most of our sentimental items into boxes and bins and left them in the basement where they were out of the way, and we didn’t really think about them most of the time. I first read The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up back in 2015, and immediately dove into the tidying process, organizing our clothes (and learning a new way of folding), clearing out our books, minimizing our paper, and decluttering just about every area of our house since then! Organizing Sentimental Items with the KonMari Methodīut one area I hadn’t really touched on yet– because I hadn’t really tackled it yet– was sentimental items. ![]() It seems like everyone is talking about “tidying up” this year, with the release of Marie Kondo’s new Netflix show by the same name in January! I loved watching the show myself and seeing the transformations from cluttered to tidy! ![]() For more information, see my disclosures here.
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