Three bags. That’s what my mother and I filled one Saturday when she was 78.
Not one thing in those bags made either of us cry. There were no photos, no letters, and no good china. Just dried-up pens, old sponges, and a drawer full of ketchup packets.
When we carried the last bag to the car, my mother stood in her kitchen and looked around. “I can breathe in here,” she said.
She had been putting off decluttering for years, because she thought it had to start with the hard things. It doesn’t.
So here are 15 easy things you can let go of this weekend. None of them are sentimental. Most of them take ten minutes or less, and you can do almost all of them sitting down.
Why Start With the Easy Things
When you’re over 70, energy matters. Some days you have a lot of it, and s