Every fall, my closet inevitably morphs into a monster. My summer dresses hang on one rail with the light jackets, while the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: The Spruce / Margot Cavin As someone who has moved over 20 times and likes to keep a curated, fairly minimalistic space, I ...

I come from a family of sentimentalists. My childhood drawings from 20 years ago still line the walls of my dad's 'mancave', and my mom is still holding onto baby shoes I barely wore. It is a family ...

Forget January. Back-to-school season is the best time to declutter.

The trigger for me to start decluttering was a certain book on the subject. After reading only about 20 pages, I felt a ...

My parents, who are around 85 years old, won't deal with closing out their grave, their Buddhist altar, or the home they used to live in, nor will they clear out their massive storage shed or their ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Springtime is a perfect time to begin decluttering your home, given the theme of renewal and freshness. But what happens when some items you’d like to toss have special meaning or a connection to ...

There's nothing like a move to prompt a thorough decluttering session. An international move makes the mission even more pressing. Over the past five years, as I moved from Canada to the UK and back ...

I embarrassed my entire family at a bar mitzvah last week. Let me explain: I had recently donated all of the items that I seldom wore, including almost all of my dresses and my only pair of black ...

The average home contained 300,000 items. The more stuff families had on their refrigerators corresponded directly to how much stuff they had in the home. The average visible possessions in each home ...

I experienced unexpected rewards of decluttering. I have thought for years about doing serious decluttering. I have moved several times and during the last move, I donated over half of my items and ...