Declutter: sentimental items

• One box out at a time — no full-room sort
• Keep rule: would you miss it in a photo-only world?
• Photos taken of items before letting them go
• One memory box per person, one size, that's the limit
• Kids' artwork: keep ten, photograph the rest
• Cards: keep the message, recycle the paper
• Gifts you never liked: permission granted, donate
• Inherited items: choose five, share the rest with family
• Letters + documents of record scanned and filed
• Story recorded: who, what, why it mattered
• Let-go items to a place that will use them
• Box resealed and dated — revisit in one year, not one week