01The rule: one room per 3 days
Don't try to do the whole house in a weekend — you'll burn out by Sunday afternoon and quit. 90 minutes per room, 3 days each, 30 days total.
02The 4-box system
In every room, set up four boxes: Keep · Sell · Donate · Trash. Touch each item exactly once and decide. No 'maybe' pile — that's the enemy.
- Keep — only what you've used in the last 12 months
- Sell — Bazaraki for furniture, Facebook Marketplace for everything else
- Donate — clothes & books to local charity shops
- Trash — broken, stained, expired
03Hardest categories
Books, kids' toys, kitchen gadgets and 'sentimental' items resist hardest. Take a photo of sentimental things you don't actually use — the memory is in the photo, not the dusty object.
04Sell-by dates matter
Moving expired spices, old medicine and ancient paint across town is paying €25/m³ to relocate trash. Bin it.
05Bonus: book a clearance with the move
Loading 'trash boxes' onto the same truck on moving day is 50% cheaper than a separate clearance run.
Less stuff = cheaper move + faster unpack + calmer first week. 30 days is enough.