This is the question I was asked at a recent GO Month presentation. The topic was Downsizing BEFORE You Have to Move.
The short answer – Set a Deadline! I give anyone reading this permission to make me the bad guy. Say, “My professional organizer is making me do it!”
Watch this short video for a true story about kids and their stuff from premier New Zealand organizer, Wendy Davie.
My mom saved stuff for her four children in her basement for 30+ years. When she was ready to move into a retirement center, she set the deadline for us to take our stuff or else. Clothes from the 70’s were mildewed. Hundreds of science fiction paperbacks were carted off (and pitched later.) There was no reason for her to have stored those things all that time.
Be tough! Set a deadline. If the stuff is important, children will take it. If not, donate the things so someone else can use it.
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