For homesteaders, there’s a lot of things that are great to hoard and keep a good stock of. However, like any household, there are also often things that pile up and just create clutter and mess. If you’d like to keep a well-ordered homestead with plenty of room for a good stash of supplies, it’s important to purge as well. Also, if you live off-grid or in a semi-wilderness setting, clutter can attract pests and bugs that you might want to deter, so reducing clutter can have a lot of benefits there as well.
Since it’s a New Year, if you are wanting to clean out your home this year, here are some great items to purge to reduce clutter. Maybe pick one item each week to go through your home and toss out!
- Old wrapping paper
- Old phones
- Undeveloped film
- Broken Christmas lights
- Socks with no mate
- Broken tools
- Rusted tools
- Frayed rope
- Used weed eater string
- Broken buckets
- Expired food
- Rusted canned food
- Expired medicine
- Old electronics
- Worn out sheets
- Worn out towels
- Reusable shopping bags
- Plastic shopping bags
- Old paperwork
- Expired animal feed
- Broken lamps or light bulbs
- Pots and pans that are never used
- Broken dishware
- Old toys
- Toys with missing parts
- Clothes that don’t fit
- Worn out shoes
- Empty containers
- Unread books
- Dried out pens or markers
There are some items on this list that you might be able to repurpose for something else, but make sure it’s realistic that you’ll actually take on these projects, and organize these items well so that they’re not just continuing to take up space that you could use for something else. Place them somewhere you will see them and remember to use them, organize them in a way that it is easy to grab what you need (instead of digging around your storage container), and make a list of your repurpose projects to do throughout the year.
A clean and orderly homestead is so much more functional, so happy purging in the New Year!
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