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Thank you in part toExtremely popular TV shows likeRanger with Marie Kondo, more Americans than ever try to free himself from unnecessary junk food at home. Although this purge can be beneficial at any age, it is particularly useful when you reach 50. Why is the half-century mark an important period? Well, after five decades on the planet, a person has a way to accumulate unnecessary items.

It's not just about finding things that "give you joy" (Kondo's words) and throw the rest. It is also about recognizing the things you have kept too long and destroy or replace them. It means taking a long and honest look at your surroundings - to household items that are now officially old to be antiques - and make minor (and sometimes major) changes. Here are 50 things you need to extract from your home when you reach 50.

It's not just appearances; There is a more sinister reason to grasp your chipped or cracked plates. With each washing, the water is made in cracks and can lead to truly nasty bacteria growth. In addition, if you use these microwave plates, cracks can deepen, making bacteria growing faster. And you do not need to break the bank on a new set of cutlery. About each store these days sells affordable options. Case in point: even the department of decoration of the target sellsStylish and robust plates for only $ 2.99 a room.

This sofa or easy chair that your parents gave you when you entered your first apartment should have been spent for a long time. Not only because it seems probably horrible, which is a bad look, even if it confined to a subsoil recompagne - but because it probably probably probably probablyReal damage to your spine Whenever you sit on it.

We understand the joys of movie collection. Like books, there is something about filling a shelf with DVDs from your favorite movie classics that feels satisfactory. But it may be time to review these films and compared to your collection. Are you sure youabsolutely love Fully?Some of these films You will come back on time and in time, likeThe Godfather WhereThe Empire Counter-Attack. And some - like, oh,Weekend in Bernie's II-You may have retrieved in a small price tray and there is no chance or no chance to look at them at any time. Do the right thing and lose weight the DVD flock.

All jarried spices begin to lose their power after about six months. They also accumulate a little dust - and not on the pot. Dust settlesin the spices itself. You can continue to use spices up to three years, but the taste will change. If you only need a cumin once a year to make Chile, launch the old pot and invest the $ 4 in a fresh cumin for the fourth of next July cooking.

This old hair brush you use forever is too old.Some experts insist You should replace it every six to 12 months. The hair becomes more fragile with age, so that the replacement of the brush will help prevent case. In addition, an old hair brush holds more raw things than you realize. A university at the University of Arizona revealed that hair brushes used by women aged 18 to 24 had more than 3,400 different types of bacteria.perch.

A really upscale mattress can last anywhere between 7 and 10 years old and if you really take care, even a few years after that. Once you have arrived at a teenager - 13 years and over, your mattress is definitely serious need for replacement. And not just because it's not as firm as it was once. Unless it has been professionally disinfected, it contains a lot of Icky things, such as dust mites and body fluids that we will not explain in detail because we do not want to ruin your day. Oh, and while you're here,That's why you have to change your pillow immediately.

Nobody is impressed by your level of drink. No matter how the bottle is cool or "vintage", it takes from the place that could be occupied by something more meaningful than that of the local IPA you once upon a trip to California.

The flip flops go well for the occasional holidays, but as a regular thing you wear on your feet,It's a bad idea. "The flip flops offer no arc or heel support, and you have to grab them with your toes to keep them," Podiatrist Dr. Christina S. Longsaid in an interview. "Wear them too long or for poor activity can cause many different problems:" Plantar fasciite, tendinitis and, possibly, knee pad, ankle and back. If your toesneed Feel free, invest in some Birkenstocks or Tevas.

How old is your favorite bath towel, the one you use after each shower? If you have been using it for more than two years, it might be time to say goodbye. That's about the time when most towels - especially beloved towels that get used again and again in a single week, start losing their absorption. And here is a disgusting fact, you probably do not want to know: cutaneous particles become integrated into a towel after enough time. So basically, you rub old skin cells on your own body. Blech! Ditch these towels and get a new set. Use older for cleaning or donate to an animal shelter.

Remember how you thought your grandfather was crazy about collecting all these yellowingNational Geographic Magazines in his garage? Well, at least he had an excuse. He lived in a non-digital age, when you could not read just about everything that was written online, including oldNational Geographicmagazines. You do not have this excuse. If there is a stack ofNew Yorkers or any other magazine taking place in your home and the month and year on the cover is not the month and year we are currently experiencing, they have long been expected for the recycling tray.

When did the last time you look at the cooking surface of your favorite frying pan? Do you see a scratch on the nonstick surface? Time to launch and replace. And while you are there, evaluate the pots and pots you actually use. Just because it happened in a set does not mean that you have to keep it. Most people are doing very well in the kitchen with only a saucepan, a saucepan and a stockot. Everything else is especially superfluous.

Nobody throws a box of paint. Even if they have completed their DIY project and have not used it yet, they keep these cans in their basement for the next 10 years, because you never know when you might need a Quart-gallon of green paint. Have you ever remove! If it's an oil-based paint, these are chemicals that could contaminate the floor and water, so do not just throw it with the trash and remember. Take it to your local hazardous waste installation.

Even if you had themFree of a dry cleaner-Actually,above all If you have them free, your clothes deserve better. At age 50, you have invested time and money in an adult wardrobe. It deserves more than metal hangers, which can cause stretch marks on clothes. A wooden hanger could take more space, but they are better for your clothes because they closely imitate the unique slope of a person's shoulders. If an outfit is suspended from a cable hanger compared to a wooden wood, you can absolutely tell the difference.

The glass carafe is so tinted that it is almost brunette and coffee always has a taste like it was brewed at a gas station. Why are you still going on this old coffee maker? It's not just the funky taste that should be a problem, the plastic of the machine could betoxatein each pot. If you really like coffee, invest in a machine like Nespresso or Chem desk.

We know it can feel weird to throw a birthday card, especially if it is a big-parent or a really special person in your life. But when you reach 50 years, you start to realize that your memories of a person are not contained in each piece of paper or cardboard that they are sent to you. They will always be in your head and heart, that you still have a box full of old birthday cards that you have not looked since, well, your birthday.

Everything exists on the internet now, including everything you might need or want to know about your bank account. There is absolutely no reason to fill out your file cabinets with lower banking returns that you can easily access, simply the click of a computer key or on a smartphone screen, online at all. moment.

If you have a soft spot for this killer mix created for you by an ex or your current partner, you do not need to hang on these old CDs to keep this memory alive. Get this: Everything can all be recreated on Spotify. Most of us have not listened to a real CD for years, we continue to move this storage box full of CD out of the road every year when we unload the Christmas decorations box. It is now time to download these CDs on your music music platform and free yourself.

It's time to accept that all these miniature, revitalizing hotel shampoos, tangible and tiny soaps that you accumulate over the years, storing them in the back of a toilet in case you receive guests who have forgotten to bring toiletries, will probably never be used. If you really want to put them for good use, give it to a shelter for homeless, where they will be distributed as "hygiene kits" to people who really need it. Or better yet,OPERATING AND COMFORT CARE Has shipped more than 1,000,000 pounds of toiletries to the army, which still needs donations.

As a car starts to lose its value as you drive it on the ground, your sneakers or running shoes begin to escape when they start hammering the sidewalk. If you really put them through their crowds, even the plus sturies of sneakers should only only four months, about 500 miles of hard work. And if you wear them like your daily shoes, above exercise, they can not even last long.

The flowers were the gift, not the vase. The vases tend to be bulky and clumsy - not the kind of thing you will use a second time. No reasonable person needs more than three vases: a small, a medium and a big one. The rest must be given to retirement homes or deposited with good will.

Were you prudent to save the map of this 2001 accountant? He has new ones - and probably a new number-fromi. With e-mail and textos, vCards and DMS - not to mention this complete LinkedIn - small paper cards are super-useless. Each unwanted drawer in America has at least one business card. If you need it, click on a photo or type information in an email, spreadsheet or phone and discard the nearest recycling tray.

Even if it's only folded on the one on one side, it is always broken.Invest in a beautiful umbrella Whether you keep either in your car, in your bag, or cleanly in your closet and move away from the cheap gifts you have been transporting for too many years.

THE GREAT BRITISNIC COOKING SHOWInspired many people to be more ambitious in the kitchen. And it's fantastic ... except when it leads to more cooking clutter. Let's say you have decided that this holiday you were finally going to make a pavlova fruit pie. So you bought all the ingredients and the quintessential recipe book on the meringue. But then, the time escaped from you and you never came to do so. Now you have a book that reminds you of something you did not do and you probably never do it, you look at the face every day. The local library would be a better place than your cooking shelves for an unused cookbook that judges you for your culinary failures.

Whether it's yours or given, you will not wear it or use it. You will not even wear it at a feast of the 80s because the letter letter jackets always look like the 50s. If it means a lot for you, take the letter of the jacket and frame it. But put this jacket of his misery and get out of your space.

If you have space in your manufacturing hut forgift wrap-Or on this subject, if you have a craft cabin, so well, by all means, you have the storage to keep this paper until next year. But if you simply continue to mix it from one year to another and closet closet, put it into storage with all the ornaments, then it might be time to throw them away and reinvest next year. Your life is sufficiently cluttered, you do not need four-foot paper tubes in the dance of gingerbread men who take more space.

You are not up to the Supreme Court. You do not need paper calendars clogging shelves or file cabinets. And if you really want to remember your dentist appointment from 2014, just go digital with your calendar.

Your home and car keys should be on your keychain. The keys to your neighbor, if you trust you to keep an alternative set, should be in a safe place. Your bike padlock should be on your bike; Your gym lock in your sports bag. All other key and lock in your possession that does not have a specific purpose need to finally be cut into bulk. If you do not know what key unlocks or what the lock is destined, you no longer need. End of the story.

There is financial resources and it is to be cheap. ACollection of old condiment packages Whether you have accumulated over the years are not really saving you a lot of money, and it gives your refrigerator a university room dormitory aesthetic. It seems seriously as chic as saving old pizza delivery boxes to use as a fortune Tupperware.

Your tax return recipes must not necessarily take place over three years. After that, you are literally being nostalgic pieces of paper with numbers representing the purchases you have done in the distant past. Let it go. Nobody, let alone the IRS, is interested in your receipts 20 years ago.

You know you have at least some of them. In a drawer, you have old manuals for 10-year-old phones, or printers you have long replaced, or eventhat voids, at this point, you can use your eyes closed. Keeping these documents yellowing is as much as possible as limiting examples of SAT issues because you never know when you go take the SAT again.

The last VCR has come out of the assembly line on July 22, 2016. They do not even play the players. So, unless you have sentimental reasons to hold on old VHS cassettes like, for example, they contain old movies get rid of them the family. Even the specially version collector editions you thought to beSOOOA precious day, uh ... we are not sure how to break it for you, but ... they are not. They will never be. They are just antiques collecting dust (and give you an excuse to give young conferences on what life was like when Blockbuster ruled the world).

That youWork at home Or if you just want your home office to feel like a real office, there is a moment when everyone understands: "Oh yes, I do not really need post-it or ribbon dispensers or binder clips or multiple clips or adhesive tabs. »

Dimensions of the window can be radically different from house in house, and unless you have sewing skills and how to refuse a set of curtains for a brand new window, it might be time to say goodbye to these old curtains . The stems can still work, but the fabric is rare. For the cost of having your existing curtains professionally modified, you can simply order also easily a new custom set.

Nobody wants to throw an old phone because we are all terrified at the idea of ​​identity theft, and we are not quite sure where it is legal to dispose of it. So, instead, they take room in the cupboards, in full boxes of all other obsolete technologies knows what to do with.

First of all, it's easy to wipe your personal information on a phone; Just use the "Reset factory" option. Then make sure are withdrawn the SD and SIM cards, and you are ready to let the old thing pass. The best way to recycle an old phone is to donate it. We suggest an organization likeCell telephones for soldiers, Which use phones given to provide foreign troops with prepaid international calling cards.

It feels unnecessary just throwing them, and somewhere in the back of your mind that you think you could use them again. Spoiler: You do not. Even with the best intentions, no one remembers to grab the plastic bags before head for the grocery store. Many shops are happy to take these bags back, but otherwise, recycle them and finally invest in a grocery store.

Do a lot of fries from scratch, are you? How about home ice cream? Paninis? How many rice you do each year to justify the kitchen shelf, a counter or a cabinet space taken up by a rice cooker? Small complex appliances that have simpler solutions will not be used. If you have not used a kitchen appliance more than once in the last six months, it's time to transmit them, or along someone who goes or empty it at your local store of the resale.

According toThe Mayo Clinic, most solar screens can last up to three years. But beyond that, you take real risks with solar remains. If you do not know how long you had this bottle, you may want to play safely and drop it in the trash. There are things that is worth being pinched, butProtect yourself against skin cancer, especially in your 50 years, is not it one of them.

At the moment we reach 50, the number of people who always play the musical instrument they learned in their teenagers cut half, according tostatistical data. If this guitar or the trumpet you loved in high school, just gather dust, it's time to give up the ghost. Hunarding Something you have no intention of playing is just denying the chance that someone else discovers it. There are many charities that would be happy to take your instrument given, including the one that helpsbring music to the life of military veterans.

Whether it's a missing revolver card or a suspicious of one hundred dollars in monopoly tickets, board games with missing pieces only make the gameplay more difficult - they ruin all the game. If you are already In saying, "Keep yourself, I'm just going to borrow yahtzee dice," the universe tells you something: Buy ... Another ... Game.

Maybe they came with food to take away and ended up in your utensil drawer. However, they arrived there, you finally put them free. If you do not already have high-end consumption utensils, the genre that does not seem to belong to a birthday party, turning 50 is the perfect excuse for finally making your kitchen look like an adult cook .

We all have at least one of these, whether it is a promotional shirt of a local radio station that we received during a summer carnival, or a commemorative shirt of An office building event, two sizes too big or small for you. You have held all of this these years because ... why, exactly? You do not need to continue moving it on the side of your drawer while you are looking for a shirt you really want to wear. Take it out of his misery and give it to someone in need.

We also have a weakness for encyclopedias. They were the Google of yesteryear. If they are a handicraft transmitted from generating your family and you have special shelves to display them, by all means, hold these volumes. But if it's just theBritannica From your childhood room, it's time to open this space. You can replace them with a small thing called Google, which takes exactly zero space in your home.

It's time to accept this cold and hard fact. You will never find these lids. They have been left for a long time, with the missing socks that you keep in hope that you will go up so that you can bring them together with their twin.

We must respectfully agree withMarie Kondo's argument that 30 pounds are enough. There is no reason to have such strict limits on the number of books in your library. But you should take a more critical eye on the books you have suspended over the years. The books that have shaped you as a person and that you remember why the literature can be so significant, you can and should hang on to them.

But the books you have kept from school, those you have read a little, but not really, and the books that a remote parent gave you a birthday present because "Like the mysteries, right? " These can go. If your neighborhood has one of thesesmall free library Boxes, it's a great place to help your unweighted books find another home. Or give them to your local library, to the retirement home or at the Veterans Hospital.

We applaud your commitment to become healthy and start doing more exercise. But if your treadmill or stationary bike is sitting unused in the room of friends longer than you can not remember it, and it was used mainly to suspend the wet laundry to dry, it may be time to put These grazing machines.

This includes the open bag of frozen peas and the bag half used (and mostly broken) of tatties buried under the remains of last summer popsicle. Mix everything. This cauliflower pizza crust that you thought you were a brilliant idea last May? It can go too. Or the frozen curry that your neighbor dropped months ago? Faded away. It's time to make room for quality meat, fantasy ice cube trays forIncredible cocktailsand bags of peas and titles actually.

Here is a fun weekend activity: recover all the pens or marker of the house. Check each desktop, handbag, jacket pocket or cooking drawer where they would hide. You will probably be shocked at the volume. Then get a notebook and test each pen and throw those who do not work. The remaining pens should be deposited in the same place, perhaps in a plastic storage organizer that you can get on the marketLess than ten dollars.

You can discuss keeping some things for sentimentality, but a toothbrush is not one of them. The American Dental Association recommends replacing your toothbrush at least once every three months. If you have not bought a new toothbrush since early October, it's time to add it to your shopping list.

We live in digital age now, and not only could you find a restaurant menu so easier online than digging in kitchen drawers, an online menu is more likely to have up-to-date and accurate information about Options and food prices, and will also tell you if the restaurant's phone number has changed.

All medicines have an expiration date. Check the box for more details, or if it is simply a lot of mysterious pills in an unmarked sheet blister, KRKK IT. No good can come with a lucky conjecture on what the drug could be. If it's a prescription drug and your doctor does not specifically ask you to continue taking it, it's time to let him go.

Some drugs can be thrown into the trash, but for prescription drugs, it is better to checkArduMyeds.org To see where your medications can be returned safely. And if you try to make room without throwing everything away, check these20 ways to store things you have never thought.

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