Clearing out the clutter — from old tax returns to clothes you don't wear to keepsakes that are no longer meaningful to you — can be a wonderful gift to yourself and your family, organizing experts say.
Linda Hetzer, co-author of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home with Janet Hulstrand, has talked to hundreds of people about paring down what they own, and she remembers one retired woman who went through all of her belongings, sold some of them and gave away many other things. When asked why she had done it, she said, "I am doing this for my children. I don't want them to have do it. It's a gift."
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