As I’ve been sharing my organizing and purging efforts, I have been asked by several blog readers how I decide what to keep and what to get rid of.  One reader expressed hesitancy to get rid of something for fear she might need it down the road.  So, I thought I would share some of the rules I used for deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.  These rules aren’t unbreakable, but they are guidelines that help me make better decisions about stuff.  Not only the decisions of what to keep and what to let go, but also what I buy in the first place. rule number one – space The first filter everything has to run through is do we have space for it in our house.  Space can be subjective because you can have space for a lot of things and not be able to

About a year and a half ago, I worked on organizing our linen closets.  I had just dumped everything in them when we moved in, and they were consistently a mess.  I did a pretty good job at the time of thinning things out and getting the closets to a place where they felt organized and functional.  For the sheet sets, which are always a challenge when it comes to having a tidy linen closet, I folded the flat and fitted sheets together and stored each set in a pillowcase with a label pinned on. I knew pulling sheet sets out and putting them away would be a pain, but I tried it.  Yeah, it was a pain, and while it looked okay, I felt like there might be a better solution.  I happened to trip across sheet organizer boxes online and had to test them out!  There are various