
We still want to keep stuff to make our house feel nice and cozy.

There are some things that we want to keep just because they’re beautiful to look at, or we enjoy having them, like decor. If we haven’t used something in the past year, chances are we aren’t going to use it in the upcoming year. Essential items are things you use every day, like coffee mugs (but the extra coffee mugs on the top shelf that you never use are NOT essential!). Every item has to go into one of these categories. I came up with this home inventory checklist with six different categories that we could assign to our stuff to get a better idea of what we actually have. Think of your home like a store, and it can help you decide if your things are adding value to your life or not. Of course, it’s not actually practical, but it’s an idea to use as a filter when we’re trying to declutter and simplify our home.

If the average home has about 300,000 items, how long would it take go through and inventory every single item in our house?! If we took inventory and categorized the stuff in our house, we’d have a much better idea what needs to be put on clearance – what needs to exit our house. They put them on clearance to move them out!

When stores are doing their inventory, they want to know what they have but they also pay close attention to the items are people buying and NOT buying.Īnd what do they do with the things that people aren’t buying? It’s common for stores and warehouses to do inventory, but what it look like if we actually took an inventory of everything that’s in our house?Īnd what if we took it a step further and also categorized it? Did you know that the average American has 300,000 items in their house?!?
