Are you tired of having too much stuff? Are you ready to declutter your home? Maybe you have more things than you need and would like to sell your extra things? This blog post includes a free printable resource that will help you determine where to start, what to organize and sort, and tracks your progress until completion.

Here's a little bit of background information first, about our personal experience, and how we've found success in this method we'll introduce to you today. We have been involved in massive rummage sale planning and implementation for decades! We have become experts in converting unwanted items into cash through many years of successful multi-family rummage sales, also referred to as garage sales or yard sales. Our sales have drawn customers from hours away, even from other states. Our free advertising for a local sale went viral and became the "talk" of social media groups interested in our sales. We get so many repeat customers who tell us they watch for our sale every year because it is their favorite. People from near and far want to get involved because they've never seen anything like it. We never really expected to become consultants for rummage sales, but it's turned into that! This only happened through lots of learning, hard work, and determination to get really good at this! And we'd like to share our proven methods with you so you can have the rummage sale everyone wants to go to and buy from.

We are beginning an entire blog series of resources for having a successful rummage sale, and the first step is to sort through everything in your home to determine what is no longer needed. Future posts will highlight detailed steps of having a rummage sale that people will want to come to, purchase lots of things from, and become loyal, repeat customers. We'll also give you tips on rummage set-up, pricing, running the sale, advertising, and what to do with leftover items. So come back often to see the other rummage sale tips we will provide in future posts.

Today we are offering a free printable Decluttering Checklist worksheet to help you develop a clear and concise strategy for sorting through all of the things you own and keep in your home. It will guide you through the areas of your home, some that you may not normally think of organizing. You will write out the details specific to your personal living space. Then work on sorting and checking off an area daily or weekly until you are finished.

The checklist includes:

• Closets
• Drawers
• Storage
• Surfaces
• Files
• Furniture
• Other

We have also included a sample checklist below, under the printable file. Our sample form shows ideas of how to use the checklist, but you will write your home-specific checklist details according to your own personal space. For example, if you have three bedrooms, you may have three clothes closets to list. Or if you have an office or playroom, those will be specific areas you will want to include.

After you print and fill out the form, you will begin in one area of your home, focusing on only that specific space until it is finished. Check off your accomplished tasks as they are completed. Then move onto the next one. You get to choose the order that makes the most sense to you.

Decluttering - Step 1 - is all about going through every single item you own. It may seem like a huge task, and it is - but it is doable if you take it one step at a time. These small daily wins can be achieved and used as motivation to keep making progress.

This may be done at any time of the year, but I usually recommend starting this sorting in January or February. With this method, every item in every closet or drawer is seen, and a decision is made for each thing. I keep a box available for each category and find a spot in my basement or garage to store clearly marked boxes of the items I will resell at a rummage sale. My yearly rummage sale will take place once I'm ready and that is usually in the late Spring or early Summer.

As I'm sorting, I have specific boxes I categorize items into:

• Keep (put it back where it goes once that area is completely sorted)
• Sell (put it in a box designated for your rummage sale)
• Donate (if it's usable but you don't want to hold onto it for a sale)
• Give Away (to a relative or free at the curb to anyone)
• Trash/Recycle (toss things that don't have value or a use)

This decluttering method is great for beginners, and it can become a good habit that you keep up with year-round. I prefer to keep rummage sale collection boxes available throughout the year and add items to them as I decide they are no longer useful to me. This helps save me time going through everything early in the year. A lot of things have already been assigned to the next yard sale, and it helps me not feel so overwhelmed to prepare for the sale.

Print out the checklist from the file above. Then use the sample form below as a guide to help you know what each listed category in the checklist is for, then write your own home-specific checklist on the form you printed out.

You can do this, and you can do it well. I'm proud of you for trying. Just take it one step at a time and you'll get through it.

The most frequently requested items people have contacted us about lately are Lalaloopsy dolls. If you haven't heard of them, they are really cute dolls that are highly sought after, hot collector items right now. This is especially true with some of the earliest manufactured dolls, which may be hard to find still new in their original boxes.

Lalaloopsy is a brand of doll toys made by MGA Entertainment, and the characters are rag doll style figures appearing to have button eyes, yarn hair, and a stitched mouth (only they are actually molded plastic toys). Apparently, they were originally released in 2010 having the name Bitty Buttons, with the brand name quickly being changed to Lalaloopsy. The dolls seemed to have grown in popularity right from the start, and through the years there have been video games and TV specials based on the Lalaloopsy characters.

If you are currently searching for full-size Lalaloopsy dolls, you have come to the right place! We are resellers of various collectible items, and we are happy to have found some of these special dolls to add to our inventory. These seem to be a perfect addition to our resale theme, since this brand of "rag dolls" promotes things being repurposed and nothing going to waste; emphasizing the idea that everything deserves a second life, which encompasses the entire concept of thrifting and resale that we specialize in.

We have several options available right now, but they may not be here for long since they are highly sought after among collectors. You may want to act fast if you see something here that you want, because we don't know how often we'll find more of these special dolls to offer. We already sold several of the Lalaloopsy dolls when we first got them, and now we have added the rest to our website. So, we know they don't stick around too long once they are offered for sale.

The links to these dolls, shown below, should be active as long as they are still available. We will try to add more of them if/as they become available, but this is our current inventory of Lalaloopsy.

Happy shopping, and we hope you have found what you are looking for today!

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