You want to keep your home clean and organized, but other people’s stuff keep getting in the way. How to get your family on board without nagging once

Sarah was on a mission to declutter her home and was praying her family would hop on board. I told her to leave her husband out of the picture; in the meantime, there was plenty of her own junk to deal with without starting on his.
And then it happened.
Sarah came home from shopping one Sunday, and Chaim, her husband, was stuffing shirt after shirt into a big garbage bag. “I don’t wear these anymore,” he said. “Some are small, some are yellowed, and most of these are from ages ago… I thought I would clear up some space in the closet.”
Sarah smiled. Her stuff-loving husband was catching on.
“I see this organizing thing really works! Our home runs so much better now since you got into this,” Chaim said with a grin. “I thought I’d give it a try too.”
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