How do i get rid of stuff posts by Rita Wilkins. Rita is a renowned expert in decluttering and minimalism, empowering individuals to simplify their lives through practical tips and resources, while also captivating audiences as a professional speaker and author.

Declutter This Holiday Season 

How Can I Learn How To Declutter? Are you living with too much clutter? Do you want to learn how to declutter and downsize your life but find you don’t know where to start? Do you wish you could find an easy guide such as a decluttering checklist to help you out? Hi, I’m Rita [...]

Quick Minimalism Tips To Declutter Your Home 

Declutter Your Home and Live A Minimalist Lifestyle You don’t have to live with the unwanted clutter in your home. You can declutter your home and live with more time, money, and freedom to do as you please! How? With my help! Hi, I’m Rita Wilkins – and many know me as the Downsizing Designer. [...]

Top 5 Tips to Stay Focused When Decluttering for Retirement

By Rita Wilkins The Downsizing Designer For many of you baby boomers in your 50s and 60s, you’re thinking about retirement… A life after career A life filled with more fun and less stress A smaller home with less work and less expense When you look around your home at all of the stuff you’ve [...]

Learn About Minimalism At Your Own Pace 

Do You Want to Learn More About Minimalism And Decluttering?  If you’re interested in a minimalist lifestyle and minimalist design but have no idea how to start making use of minimalist ideas if your life, you’re not alone. To live a minimalist lifestyle, you will likely need to declutter your home, which can be a [...]

What To Do When Your Kids Leave Home But Their Stuff Stays?

By Rita WilkinsThe Downsizing Designer For those of you who are decluttering, getting ready to downsize, or age-in-place, are you wondering how to get your adult kids to remove their stuff that might be sitting in their childhood bedrooms, your attic, garage, or basement? This is a real problem and an emotional one for many [...]

3 Best Ways to Cure Clutter Creep and Chaos

By Rita Wilkins The Downsizing Designer Have you ever listened to what your clutter is trying to tell you? You know… that clutter that’s everywhere! Your kitchen counter, your dining room table, your bathroom countertops. Every time you think you’ve cleaned it off and decluttered, it sneaks back in to haunt you! All of that [...]

How to Emotionally Let Go of Sentimental Clutter

By Rita Wilkins The Downsizing Designer Do you hold onto things that are sentimental to you because you are afraid if you let go of them, you will lose the memories associated with them? Several years ago, after our mom and dad passed away, my siblings and I were cleaning out their home… The home [...]

The Minimalist Mindset: How to Live More with Less

By Rita WilkinsThe Downsizing Designer For those of you who know me, follow me, or have ever been to my home or office, you would likely not think of me as a minimalist because I continue to surround myself with a number of hand-selected beautiful things that I’ve collected over many years as an interior [...]

Digital Decluttering And Minimalism Tips 

You Can Lead A Minimalist Lifestyle When You Learn How To Declutter Your Home Clutter doesn’t have to rule your life. If you look around your home and find yourself overwhelmed by the clutter but uncertain about how to begin decluttering – don’t worry, I can help! My name is Rita Wilkins, and I’m also [...]

Minimalist Living: What is Clutter Blindness?

By Rita Wilkins The Downsizing Designer Have you ever gotten so used to seeing something that you don’t even notice it anymore? The boots and snow shovels from last winter that still sit in your mudroom. The old winter coats that no longer fit but take up room in your hall closet. The kid’s trophies [...]

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