If you stick to the plan, photos will be among the last things you sort. The exceptions: paperwork currently in use (bills), needed for a limited amount of time (like those tax receipts) or needed indefinitely (your lease).ĭivide those papers into two categories: Those that need to be addressed and those that just need to be saved. Her clients send a minimum of two 12-gallon bags to recycling (or the shredder). “My basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away,” Kondo writes. There are some items that you don’t have to even think about (hooray!) and should just trash, says Kondo.Īmong these: spare buttons (she insists you’ll never use them, but a crafter friend of mine begs to differ… she turns hers into magnets), unread books, gifts you don’t truly love, cosmetic samples that you save to use on trips, any kind of manual, and cords you can’t identify. Think of it this way: You’re choosing what you want to keep, not what you want to toss. But for clothing, books and mementos, it works pretty well.
This is an impossible standard when faced with tax receipts or grandma’s ashes.
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