10 Things Professional Organizers Always Throw Away First

Manuals for Appliances You No Longer Own
A person sorts through a box of outdated manuals for VCRs and landline phones to clear clutter.

Manuals for Appliances You No Longer Own

Filing cabinets and kitchen junk drawers frequently overflow with thick instruction manuals for blenders, televisions, and vacuum cleaners. In many cases, people hold onto these booklets long after the appliance itself has broken and left the house.

Professional organizers always throw these bulky paper manuals straight into the recycling bin. Furthermore, the physical booklets often contain dozens of pages in various languages that you will never read. By eliminating these thick paper stacks, you can repurpose that prime real estate in your kitchen for items you use daily, like cooking utensils or specialty spices.

In our modern digital era, keeping physical instruction booklets is completely unnecessary. Manufacturers post nearly every appliance manual online in easily accessible PDF formats.

If your dishwasher breaks or you need to reprogram your coffee maker, you can simply type the model number into a search engine and find the exact instructions in seconds.

Go through your drawers today and ruthlessly recycle every manual you find. If you feel nervous about letting them go, create a digital folder on your computer and download the PDF versions for your current appliances. You will instantly free up valuable storage space without losing any necessary information.

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  1. Yes I have done all these things 6 months ago, and I’ve got to do it again, electronics and chargers strings that have frayed. I’ve just thrown away ink pens I’ve had for a year or more, my new ones don’t last 2 months. I buy in bulk bc I get use to that style. Then they change and then the news bleed. I don’t like certain things to change. If it works don’t change it.

  2. Don’t throw away canvas, or other types of, bags. Reuse them when you go shopping so you don’t get plastic bags!

  3. Very helpful. I’m starting with the cabinet under my bathroom sink because that annoys me the most then on to the linen closet.

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