Are you surrounded by a mountain of junk? Does the spring weather have you wanting to tidy up and open your windows, but you can’t even reach the windows because of all the STUFF you acquired throughout the year, particularly over the holidays? Don’t push it into a pile and light a match just yet! This Waste Not Wednesday, we’ve got a strategy to help you declutter without just throwing it all away. Instead of, “out with the old, in with the new,” we’re saying, “repurpose the old, and make room for the new!”

The purpose of my business Sankoty Sustainables, the Facebook group, and Trash Talk Tuesdays is to help give you simple steps to reduce waste and have a more earth-friendly, sustainable house. My mantra last year was “Take 1 Step and then take 1 more.” Everyone can do ONE thing to reduce waste. And once that one thing becomes a habit, you can do one MORE thing. I do not need to change my house to a zero waste house in a day or 30 days. I can do it in small steps, putting one foot in front of the other. The Chinese proverb says, “A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,” right?