Summer is ending, they sang the Righeira, and with her also that feeling of freedom that makes you think “oh well, I will think about it in September”.
Here, September has arrived, and looks at you wrong. At home there is stuff accumulated as if I were ready for a reality show on those who live submerged with useless objects.
Time to clean. Not “sooner or later”, but now. Here are 10 things you can throw, donate, sell, without thinking about it too much.
Ruinati bathing costumes
The one with the slabbed elastic that makes you look like a lot of wet potatoes? Away. The one discolored by the sun and the chlorine that is now more gray than blue? He too.
Old costumes do not improve over time, on the contrary, they worsen. Do not delude yourself to “put it to go to the free beach”, because you will end up buying a new costume next year. Better to free space now.
Schrick -speaking towels and beach towels
Recognize them immediately: they are there, but that smell of mold does not leave. Some are so thin that they dry very little, and in some cases they also release the stuffed stumps.
Keeping them “by emergency” is a pathetic excuse. If one day you will have an emergency of a beach towel, you will use a sheet. Throw them, or at most transform them into rags to clean.
Expired solar creams
Sun creams have an expiry date. After that date they protect less, sometimes nothing.
If on the bottle it says “12m” and you opened it two summers ago, it is practically frying oil. Throw everything without mercy. And don’t try to use them as a moisturizer.
Destroyed sandals
The smooth soles that also slide you on the dry floor. The bands that scratch the foot. The straps that open by themselves.
If you keep them “because they are comfortable” you are just referring to the moment you will hurt. The good sandals last years, those rotten last season and then bye.
Step beach gadgets
Defoni balls, chipped rackets, swimming glasses that leave windy signs.
Yes, you paid them little, but even if you keep them there they don’t repair themselves. That snorkeling fin with crap plastic will never see the sea again. Free yourself of everything. Next summer you will want new, trusted things.
Deformed hats
The straw hat that seems to have come out of a horror movie. The discussed cap with the bad visor folded. If you think “maybe I put it in the garden” know that you will never put it. Indeed, you would also be ashamed in front of the postman. There are beautiful hats and dead hats. The dead throw each other.
Souvenir T -shirts
Those T-shirts with the writing “Ibiza 2015” or “Jesolo Beach” which have become gray-marron.
They are not memories, they are rags disguised as memories. If you want to take memory of a trip, look at the photos. A remoled shirt does not make you go back on vacation, it makes you look scruffy. It also uses these to make rags to clean, reuse is a religion.
Expired summer foods
Open the pantry: coconut biscuits soaked by humidity, snacks that know of cardboard, forgotten lemon tea bottles.
They don’t become better over time. Do the parcels of wholemeal pasta open and left in mid -June? Throw. Better an empty shelf than a food horror museum. It also controls all closed packages, summer is a proliferation of butterflies.
Ruined costume jewelery
Bracelets that leave the green wrist, necklaces with the rusty chain, passed off earrings.
There is no reason to keep them. I don’t “find the other” – if they were cheap, they throw themselves. The nice things, the others do not deserve space.
Decorative candles never lit
The perfumed candles bought at the market, now covered with dust and with a smell that has been reminiscent of a wardrobe closed for three years.
You put them for “atmosphere” and you have never lit them. Do you know what happens? They remain there to occupy space until they become irrecidated. Or you use them now or throw them.
And then? Don’t stop
Decluttering is not a religion, but almost. The more you heal, the more you feel light. End of summer is the right time because you still have in mind what you have really used and what you have ignored.
Don’t try to clean perfect cleaning in one day. Start from these ten things, then continue. Look at every object and ask yourself: “If I didn’t already have it, would I buy it today?” If the answer is no, the answer is a trash, or gift, or recycling and reuse.
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