10 Items What you Can Purge Right Now

I have written several posts in the past about 5 things you can purge on the weekend, but below are 10 things you can purge this weekend. Some of these things may take a longer time to look at, go through and organize than others, but for the most party they should be relatively quick depending on how much you have in each category.

1. Coffee mugs. Who else has a ton of coffee mugs that you have accumulated through the years? Whether this is coffee mugs you have bought, that were gifted to you, that you inherited, etc. they can just add up very quickly.
2. Missing socks. How in the world do socks go missing? Most every client we work with has missing socks.
3. Plastic containers with no matches. This is often a big issue for clients because they grab a plastic container to use for to-go items, to grab quickly to use for a project, kids take them,  and the list goes on and on. So overtime lids or the actual container go missing and usually become less useful.
4. Expired food. The pantry is good to go through quarterly and get rid of expired food. You don't always realize how much expired food you have. It will free up space and see what you need to repurchase at the store, so you are not constantly buying duplicates.
5. To-go plasticware and condiments you don't use. If you eat out a lot or just accumulated a lot through the years, then you know the to-go condiments and plasticware can overtake a space quickly. If you don't use them often and don't know how long you have had them, consider throwing the condiments out since there is usually not an expiration date on them. The plasticware use when you have a picnic, take the excess amount to work or just donate them.
6. VHS's you no longer want / need. If you don't have a VCR how are you going to watch a VHS. If the movies are not sentimental that can't be easily replaced with a dvd or if converted to a dvd, then it is time to purge them. There are tons of services in various cities that can help you convert the VHS tapes that you want to put onto a dvd, in the cloud or downloaded on a hard drive or usb drive.
7. Papers with notes on them that have no use anymore. Does anyone else grab a piece of paper and make notes on them when you need to jot things down really quickly and then those pieces of just randomly end up in a pile or you forget what that note meant? I see it all the time and often do it myself as well. Now is a good time to go through those random pieces of paper.
8. Dry rotted shoes. Some clients have shoes that they have had for so long that they are now dry rotted. If that is you, it is time to throw them out. 
9. Clothes that are too small and that you will never use again. This will probably take you longer to do than the other items on this list, but if you quickly sift through your clothes that you know are too small and grab them to give away or donate that can at least help you make some space until you can do a bigger purge. Spend 15 minutes on this without overthinking it and see how far you can get.
10. Expired hygiene products. Do you ever buy hygiene products to try and then find out that you don't like them? I see this all the time with clients. Some retailers will actually let you return the product if you end up not liking it. You may or may not know this, but most hygiene products do have an expiration date on them where they go bad or are no longer effective. 

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