What have professional organizers found when de-cluttering homes? Brace yourself.
  • A paperweight depicting break-dancing slugs

  • Four garbage bags of human hair

  • A collection of hundreds of broom handles

  • More than 1,000 containers of lip gloss

  • The skeleton of a pet turtle

  • A joint left over from the 1960s

  • An unopened bottle of penicillin that had expired in 1954

  • A yellow plastic tooth filled with baby teeth

  • A seven-foot-tall mannequin dressed like a Pilgrim, with a fake goose head and neck

  • $12,500 in change

  • 75 antique dolls, all of which were missing eyes, limbs, or hair

  • A 20-year-old retainer
Courtesy of professional organizers Kathi Burns, Nancy Heller, Jennifer Hunter, Heather Lambie, Noelle Micek, Sande Nelson, Barbara Reich, Jacquie Ross, and Amanda Wiss.

Decluttering Inspiration Galore
From the March 2012 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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