The new year is prime time for decluttering. As people take down holiday decor, figure out where to store it, and decide where new gifts should go, many are also resolving to get more organized.

Decluttering is not easy, but organization expert Dana K. White shares practical advice that can make the process far more successful.

She says the key to finally cracking the decluttering code was learning to let go of perfectly good items.

“If you try to declutter but struggle, here’s the realization I had to come to: decluttering means getting rid of perfectly good stuff,” she writes in the caption of a recent video on YouTube. “Instead of trying to make myself think something is bad, I have decluttering strategies that help me let go of good things that don’t fit in my home.”

She calls it a “major mindset shift” that “will free you to make the progress in your home that you’ve been wanting to make if you find yourself stuck in the process of decluttering or at the thought of decluttering.”

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