The average American home contains 300,000 items. Your NYC apartment might not hit that number, but you probably own more than you realize. The holidays add to this problem. Gifts come in. Family visits mean setting up guest spaces. Holiday decorations emerge from storage.
Smart people declutter before the holidays, not after. They create space before they need it. They eliminate the stress of cramming new gifts into already-full closets. They start January with less stuff and more breathing room.
The question isn't whether to declutter. It's what to keep and what to release. That ugly vase from your ex? Easy decision. But what about the bread maker you used once two years ago? The designer jeans that don't fit but might someday? The collection of takeout chopsticks that seems wasteful to throw away?
This guide helps you make those decisions without the guilt, the second-guessing, or the "maybe I'll need this someday" paralysis that keeps your apartment stuffed with things you don't actually use.
Why Decluttering Before the Holidays Actually Matters
Most people declutter after the holidays, motivated by New Year's resolution energy and the chaos of wrapping paper aftermath. That's backwards. Pre-holiday decluttering creates space for what's coming instead of dealing with overflow after it arrives.
Think about what happens during the holidays. Gifts arrive for you, your partner, your kids. Family visits mean pulling out extra bedding, setting up sleeping spaces, and making room for guests' belongings. Holiday decorations need somewhere to live for six weeks. Food shopping becomes more intense, requiring actual pantry space instead of cramming everything into already-full cabinets.
If you're already at capacity, the holidays push you over the edge. You're stuffing gift boxes under the bed. You're stacking new kitchen items on top of old ones you never use. You're fighting with your partner about where to put the air mattress because every closet is completely full.
Decluttering in November means you have space in December. When gifts arrive, you have room. When guests come, you're not panic-moving junk from room to room. When decorations go up, they're not competing with stacks of boxes you've been meaning to deal with for months.
Beyond just creating physical space, pre-holiday decluttering reduces decision fatigue. Every item in your home requires tiny ongoing decisions. Should I move this to clean under it? Is this worth keeping when I reorganize? Where should this live? Removing items eliminates these micro-decisions, freeing mental energy for actual holiday planning.
The psychological benefit matters more than most people realize. Walking into a clean, organized space reduces stress. Research shows that physical clutter competes for your attention, reducing performance and increasing stress. During the holidays, when stress already runs high from family dynamics, travel planning, and gift logistics, reducing environmental stressors makes a real difference.
There's also the practical reality that decluttering takes time. Trying to declutter after the holidays means doing it during the January slump when everyone feels broke, tired, and unmotivated. Doing it in November means you're energized, you have time before the chaos, and you're working toward something positive instead of cleaning up a mess.
The Decision Framework That Actually Works
The Marie Kondo "does it spark joy" question works for some people. For others, it's too abstract. Your three-year-old microwave doesn't spark joy, but you need it. This framework uses practical questions that work for regular people with regular stuff.
Start with one simple truth: if you haven't used something in a year, you probably won't use it next year either. That bread maker sitting in your cabinet since 2022? It's not suddenly going to become useful. The fancy cocktail shaker you got excited about? If you haven't used it by now, you're not a home bartender.
The year rule has exceptions. Seasonal items get judged differently. You only use your winter coat three months a year, but you need it every single one of those months. Holiday decorations sit unused for eleven months, but they're essential for one month. Sentimental items don't follow use-based rules at all.
For everything else, the year rule is remarkably clarifying. Walk through your kitchen and pull out every appliance you haven't used in twelve months. That's your first decluttering pile. Do the same with clothes, books, electronics, bathroom products, and hobby supplies. You'll be shocked how much you're storing without using.
The second question cuts even deeper: would you move this to a new apartment? If you were packing boxes tomorrow for a move, would you actually wrap this item, load it into a truck, and unpack it somewhere else? Or would you look at it and think "why am I moving this?"
This question matters especially in NYC, where moving is expensive and frequent. The average New Yorker moves every two to three years. Professional movers charge by weight and volume. Every item you keep is an item you'll eventually pay to move. That cheap IKEA bookshelf that's falling apart? You'd replace it rather than move it. So why keep it now?
The third question addresses the guilt trap: if this disappeared tomorrow, would you replace it? This works beautifully for duplicate items. You have three spatulas. If two disappeared, would you buy new ones? No? Then you only need one spatula. You have seven coffee mugs for a two-person household. If five broke, would you replace them? The answer reveals what you actually need versus what you're just storing.
Sentimental items require different logic. The rule for sentimental stuff is simple: keep things that make you happy when you see them, release things that make you feel guilty or obligated. Your grandmother's teacup collection that you love? Keep it. Your grandmother's teacup collection that you store in a box and never look at because it's not your style? That's not honoring her memory, that's just clutter with guilt attached.
Photos and memorabilia deserve special consideration. You don't need every drawing your kid made in preschool. Keep the special ones. Scan the rest and create digital archives. Old letters from college friends? Keep a few meaningful ones, release the pile. That shoebox of ticket stubs from concerts? Keep your favorites, toss the rest. The memories live in your head, not in the pile of paper.
Category by Category: What Actually Stays
Walking through your apartment item by item creates overwhelm. Breaking decluttering into categories makes it manageable. Start with the easiest categories to build momentum, then tackle harder decisions when you're practiced.
Clothes are where most people have the most excess and the hardest time letting go. The average person wears 20% of their wardrobe 80% of the time. You probably have favorites you wear constantly and neglected items taking up space. If you haven't worn something in a year and it's not formal wear or seasonal clothing, it goes. If it doesn't fit, it goes unless you're actively losing weight and it'll fit in three months. If it's damaged, stained, or worn out, it definitely goes.
The "maybe I'll wear it" items cause the most trouble. That dress you bought for a wedding three years ago? You're not wearing it to another wedding. The jeans from college that you keep in case skinny jeans come back in style? Fashion cycles take a decade, and when skinny jeans return, you'll want new ones anyway. The shirt you got as a gift that's not your style? The giver wanted you to enjoy it, not store it out of guilt.
Kitchen items multiply invisibly. You buy a new pot, but you keep the old one "just in case." You receive gadgets as gifts. You accumulate free water bottles and tote bags. Your kitchen becomes stuffed with duplicates, single-use tools, and things you thought you'd use but never did. The decluttering rule for kitchens is brutal but effective: if you can't remember the last time you used it, you don't need it. That panini press? Gone. The third cutting board? Donate it. The weird egg separator thing? Nobody needs that.
The exception is baking equipment if you actually bake. Stand mixers, specialty pans, and baking tools deserve space if you use them seasonally. But if you bought a tart pan for one recipe two years ago, you're not a regular tart maker. Release it to someone who is.
Books create emotional attachment disproportionate to their actual value. You read that book once. You'll probably never read it again. Keeping it doesn't honor the book, it just takes up space. The books worth keeping are reference books you use, favorites you reread, and books connected to specific memories. Everything else? Your local library is free. Brooklyn Public Library has 60 locations and a massive digital collection. You don't need a personal library of books you read once and filed away.
If you're really attached to books, keep your top twenty favorites and release everything else. You can also digitize books by selling them to Strand Book Store, which takes used books and gives you cash or store credit. This feels better than tossing books in recycling, and you might discover you don't miss them.
Decorative items and knickknacks serve one purpose: they should make you happy when you look at them. If you dust them without noticing them, they're just maintenance work disguised as decoration. Keep pieces you love that make spaces feel like home. Release everything else. That mass-produced wall art you bought to fill space? Your walls can be empty. That bowl of decorative stones on your coffee table? You won't miss it. The collection of candles you never burn? Either burn them or give them away.
The same logic applies to holiday decorations. If you haven't displayed something in three years, you're not going to display it this year. Broken ornaments, tangled lights, and decorations from previous homes that don't work in your current space can all go. Keep decorations that feel special and release the ones you're storing out of habit.
Electronics and cables represent pure aspirational clutter. That old laptop from 2015? You're not using it as a backup. The tangle of mystery cables in your drawer? You have no idea what they're for, which means you don't need them. Old phones, broken chargers, and obsolete electronics are all candidates for e-waste recycling through programs like Best Buy's recycling program, which takes electronics for free.
Bathroom and beauty products expire faster than most people realize. That moisturizer you bought in 2022? Expired. The makeup you never wear? Either use it this month or toss it. The collection of hotel toiletries? You're never going to use tiny shampoo bottles at home. The exception is unopened products, which make excellent donations to homeless shelters and New York Cares, which accepts personal care items.
Hobby supplies present unique challenges because they represent investment and aspiration. You bought supplies for painting, knitting, or woodworking. You used them once or twice, then life got busy. Now they're taking up space, making you feel guilty every time you see them. The decision tree is simple: are you genuinely going to use these in the next three months? Not "someday maybe," but actually this winter? If yes, keep them. If no, sell them to someone currently doing that hobby.
Office supplies and papers are usually mindless accumulation. You don't need forty pens. You don't need notebooks from jobs you had five years ago. You don't need instruction manuals for appliances you no longer own. Shred or recycle old documents, consolidate office supplies, and create a simple filing system for truly important papers. Everything else is taking up space without providing value.
The Three-Box Method: Toss, Donate, Sell
Once you've decided what's leaving, you need a system for sorting. The three-box method works better than trying to make all decisions at once. Label three boxes: Toss, Donate, and Sell. Everything you're releasing goes into one of these boxes.
The toss box is for anything broken, damaged, expired, or genuinely worthless. Clothes with holes or stains go here. Broken electronics. Expired beauty products. Food that's gone bad. Mystery items so old you can't identify them. Old paperwork and receipts. Anything you'd be embarrassed to give someone else.
Don't overthink the toss box. Some things are genuinely trash. Trying to donate broken items or sell worthless junk wastes your time and whoever receives it. When something is done, it's done. Put it in the trash or recycling and move on. The environmental guilt people feel about throwing things away is valid, but the solution is buying less in the future, not storing broken things forever.
The donate box gets items in good condition that have value but not enough to justify selling. This includes most clothes, basic household items, books, and duplicate kitchen tools. The rule for donations is simple: only donate things you'd be happy to receive yourself. Stained clothes aren't donations, they're trash. Broken items aren't donations, they're trash you're making someone else deal with.
Goodwill NYC has locations throughout the city and makes donations easy. They take clothes, household goods, books, and small furniture. For larger items, Housing Works offers free pickup for furniture, and your donation supports their HIV/AIDS programs and homeless services. The Salvation Army also picks up large items and takes clothing, furniture, and household goods.
For specific items, specialized organizations work better than general donation centers. Dress for Success takes professional women's clothing for job seekers. New York Cares accepts winter coats and professional attire. Materials for the Arts takes craft supplies, fabric, and art materials for NYC schools and nonprofits. Books Through Bars NYC ships books to incarcerated people.
The sell box is for items worth enough to justify the effort of selling. Designer clothes, electronics less than three years old, furniture in good condition, and specialty items with resale value all qualify. The threshold for what's "worth selling" depends on your time and need for money, but generally anything worth less than $20 isn't worth the hassle unless you're doing a bulk sale.
For clothing, Buffalo Exchange and Beacon's Closet both buy clothes and give you cash or store credit immediately. They're picky, which means they'll reject most items, but for decent brands in good condition, you can walk out with cash. ThredUp takes online consignment, though their payout is minimal. Poshmark and Depop work better for individual sales if you're willing to photograph items and deal with shipping.
For furniture and larger items, Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist remain the best options for local sales. Price items to sell quickly rather than holding out for maximum profit. The goal is getting rid of stuff, not running a furniture store. If something doesn't sell in a week, drop the price or donate it.
Electronics sell best on Swappa for phones and tablets, or Decluttr for quick buyouts on various electronics. Books can go to Strand Book Store for store credit, or sell them in bulk on Amazon if you have many books. Specialized items like camera equipment, musical instruments, or sports gear sell best on dedicated platforms like Reverb for music gear or Facebook groups focused on those hobbies.
The key to successful selling is speed over profit. People hold onto items for months trying to get $50 when they could get $30 immediately. Unless you're selling something genuinely valuable, price to move and accept reasonable offers. Every day you spend storing and managing items you're trying to sell costs you mental energy and physical space.
What to Do When Family Guilt Holds You Back
The hardest items to declutter aren't the ones you use occasionally. They're the ones loaded with family guilt and obligation. The crystal vase from your aunt. The afghan your grandmother made. The painting from your mother that's not your style. The baby clothes you're keeping "in case" even though you're done having children.
Family guilt operates on the premise that keeping physical items honors the person who gave them to you. This is false. Your aunt wanted you to enjoy the vase, not store it in a cabinet out of obligation. Your grandmother wanted you to use the afghan, not pack it in a box where it never sees daylight. Your mother wants you to have a home you love, not a gallery of items you display to avoid disappointing her.
The test for family gifts is simple: do you actively like this item, or do you just feel guilty getting rid of it? If you genuinely love it and use it, keep it. If you keep it purely from obligation, it's not honoring anyone. It's just breeding resentment.
For items from deceased relatives, the emotional weight feels heavier. These items can't be replaced, and releasing them feels like losing the person again. The reframe that helps is recognizing that keeping everything dilutes what's actually meaningful. If you keep fifty items from your grandmother, none of them feel special. If you keep five items you truly treasure, those items carry real meaning.
Choose a few pieces that genuinely make you happy or that you'll actually use. Keep your grandmother's recipe box if you cook. Keep the photo albums and one or two special items that remind you of her. Let go of the random household items that happen to be hers but don't carry real significance. You can take photos of items before releasing them if that helps with the letting go process.
The same logic applies to children's items if you're done having kids. That first onesie? Keep it. Every single outfit from every stage? You can't keep them all. Choose one special item per major milestone and release the rest. If you're genuinely unsure whether you're done having children, box everything up for six months. If you don't think about it during those six months, you don't need it.
Another family guilt trap is keeping things "for the kids someday." That collection of porcelain figurines you're saving for your daughter who might want them in twenty years? Ask her now if she wants them. Kids today have different tastes and smaller apartments. They probably don't want your stuff. If they do, they'll tell you. If they don't, you're storing things nobody will ever use.
For inherited items that have value but aren't your style, selling them is not disrespectful. If your uncle left you a collection of first-edition books and you're not a book collector, selling them to someone who will appreciate them honors those books more than storing them in a box. The same applies to furniture, art, or collectibles. Items deserve to be used and appreciated, not stored out of guilt.
If family members get upset about you releasing their gifts, that's their issue to manage, not yours. You're not required to maintain a museum of every gift you've ever received. A polite "I so appreciated the thought, but it wasn't quite my style, so I passed it along to someone who will love it" is sufficient. People who give gifts to create obligation aren't giving gifts, they're exercising control.
The Timing Strategy for Pre-Holiday Decluttering
Starting decluttering the week before Thanksgiving is too late. You're already in holiday mode, you're traveling or hosting, and you've lost your window. Starting in September is too early because you won't maintain momentum through the actual holidays. The sweet spot is early to mid-November.
Early November gives you four to five weeks before the real holiday chaos begins. That's enough time to work through your apartment methodically without feeling rushed. It's also early enough that holiday obligations haven't kicked in yet. You're not drowning in shopping, cooking, and party planning. You have mental space for decision-making.
The approach that works is the 15-minute sprint method. Set a timer for fifteen minutes, focus on one specific area, and stop when the timer goes off. Fifteen minutes is short enough that you can fit it into busy days but long enough to make visible progress. One day you tackle the coat closet. The next day you sort through bathroom cabinets. The day after that, you declutter your bookshelf.
Trying to declutter your entire apartment in one weekend creates exhaustion and bad decisions. You start strong, but by hour four, you're tired and just stuffing things back in closets to be done. The slow, steady approach means you actually complete the process and make thoughtful decisions about what stays and what goes.
The specific order matters. Start with easy, emotionally neutral categories to build momentum. Kitchen gadgets, bathroom products, and office supplies are good starting points because they don't carry emotional weight. You either use the garlic press or you don't. There's no sentimental attachment to expired sunscreen.
After you've built momentum with easy categories, move into clothes, books, and hobby supplies. These take more time and carry more attachment, but by now you're practiced at making decisions. Save sentimental items for last. By the time you reach family heirlooms and photo albums, you've decluttered everything else and you can see how much space you've created. This makes it easier to release sentimental items because you can see the benefit of the process.
The other timing consideration is coordinating with donation drop-offs and pickups. Don't let donation boxes sit in your apartment for weeks. That's not decluttering, that's just moving clutter from closets to the floor. Schedule donation pickups as you fill boxes, or drop items off the same week you declutter them. If you're selling items, list them immediately and set a deadline. Anything that hasn't sold in two weeks gets donated instead.
For items going to different organizations, coordinate pickups efficiently. Housing Works and The Salvation Army both offer scheduled pickups for larger items. Clothes and smaller items can go to drop-off locations. If you have a car or friends with a car, doing one big donation run is more efficient than multiple trips. If you don't have a car, organizations with pickup services save you the logistics of hauling donations around the city.
Storage, Moving, and the Space You're Actually Creating
One trap people fall into while decluttering is just moving items to storage instead of actually releasing them. Paying for storage to keep things you don't use is expensive emotional avoidance disguised as a solution. Storage units in NYC run $100-$400 per month depending on size. That's $1,200-$4,800 per year to store things you already decided you don't need in your daily life.
If you're considering moving items to storage, ask yourself honestly: am I storing this because I'll need it later, or because I can't make the decision to release it? Most items in storage units never come back out. People pay monthly fees for years to store furniture they'll never use, clothes that are out of style, and boxes they never open. The storage unit becomes expensive, out-of-sight clutter.
The exceptions where storage makes sense are clear and specific. You're between apartments and need somewhere to keep belongings during transition. You're a student coming home for summer. You inherited furniture you plan to use when you move to a bigger place within the year. These are legitimate temporary storage situations with clear timelines and purposes.
Everything else is usually avoidance. "I might need this someday" isn't a storage plan, it's wishful thinking. "I might have kids someday who'll want this" isn't a reason to rent storage for a decade. "This was expensive, so I can't get rid of it" is sunk cost fallacy, not practical planning.
If you genuinely need more space for items you use regularly, decluttering creates that space without monthly fees. The kitchen gadgets taking up two cabinets? Removing half of them gives you an empty cabinet for actual storage. The clothes stuffed into your closet? Reducing your wardrobe by a third creates space for what you actually wear. The books covering every surface? Releasing half means you have room for the books you love.
For people planning to move, whether across town or across the country, decluttering before packing saves massive amounts of money and hassle. Professional movers charge based on weight and volume. Every item you declutter is an item you don't pay to pack, transport, and unpack. A studio apartment move that costs $800 with all your stuff might cost $550 after decluttering because you have fewer boxes and need less truck space.
The mental benefit of moving less stuff is equally valuable. Packing is tedious. Unpacking is exhausting. The fewer items you move, the faster both processes go. You're not wrapping and packing items you don't want. You're not unpacking boxes in your new place only to think "why did I move this?" You arrive in your new space with only things you actually need and like.
If you're moving within NYC, check out our guide on moving between NYC neighborhoods for tips on navigating building requirements and timing. If you're leaving the city entirely, our long-distance moving guide covers what you need to know about interstate moves, including how decluttering before packing saves significant money on moving costs.
The space you create through decluttering isn't just physical. It's mental space, decision-making space, and cleaning space. Every item you own requires ongoing maintenance, even if that maintenance is just "decide where this lives when I clean." Reducing what you own reduces the ongoing cognitive load of managing all your possessions.
After Decluttering: Keeping It That Way
Decluttering before the holidays creates clean space, but the holidays immediately threaten that space with new items. Gifts arrive. Decorations come out. Food and supplies accumulate. The systems you create now determine whether you maintain your decluttered space or revert to chaos by January.
The one-in-one-out rule works for most categories. When you receive a new sweater as a gift, one old sweater leaves your wardrobe. When you buy a new pan, an old one gets donated. When kids receive new toys, old toys cycle out. This keeps your total number of possessions relatively stable instead of constantly expanding.
For gifts you don't want, releasing them immediately is kinder to yourself than storing them out of guilt. You don't need to keep every gift. Thank the giver sincerely, then donate the item to someone who will actually use it. The point of gifts is generosity and connection, not obligating you to store things forever.
This gets harder with gifts from close family who might notice items are missing, but you have options. Use it briefly, then release it. Be honest that while you appreciated the thought, it wasn't quite right for you. Keep it for when that person visits if necessary, then donate it afterward. The specific strategy depends on your family dynamics, but the principle remains: you're not required to permanently house every gift.
For holiday decorations, the same decluttering logic applies. When you put decorations away in January, don't just pack everything back up. Go through items as you pack them. Broken lights? Toss them now instead of storing them for another year. Decorations you didn't use this year? You probably won't use them next year either. Keep only decorations you actively enjoy and release everything else.
The maintenance system that works is the 15-minute Sunday reset. Once a week, spend fifteen minutes returning items to their homes, sorting mail, and catching small messes before they become big ones. This prevents the gradual accumulation that turns organized spaces back into cluttered ones. It's much easier to maintain order than to recreate it after letting things slide.
The bigger mindset shift is changing your relationship with acquiring new items. Decluttering isn't a one-time event followed by resuming old habits. It's the start of being more intentional about what enters your space. Before buying something, ask if you have space for it, if you'll actually use it, and if you need it or just want it in the moment. This doesn't mean never buying anything, but it means pausing before impulse purchases.
For families dealing with toy accumulation, which accelerates dramatically during the holidays, having a conversation with extended family about experience gifts rather than physical gifts helps. Memberships to museums, tickets to events, or contributions to activities kids actually do create memories without creating clutter. Not everyone will cooperate, but some family members will appreciate the guidance.
Books and media are easier to manage in the digital age. E-readers, library apps, and streaming services mean you don't need physical copies of everything. If you loved a book, remember that you loved reading it once, and that experience is complete. You don't need to house the physical book forever to honor that experience.
The hardest part of maintenance is resisting the creep of "maybe useful someday" items. Free tote bags from events. Takeout containers that could be reused. Promotional items from conferences. These items multiply invisibly because each one seems too small to matter. But twenty promotional t-shirts you don't wear take up space just like twenty regular t-shirts. The boundary is saying no when items enter your life, not dealing with them later.
When Decluttering Isn't Just About Stuff
Sometimes resistance to decluttering isn't about the items themselves. It's about what the items represent. That home gym equipment represents your aspiration to work out regularly. Those craft supplies represent the creative person you want to be. That professional wardrobe represents the career you're not currently pursuing.
Releasing these items feels like admitting failure or giving up on dreams. But keeping them doesn't make you more likely to use them. It just surrounds you with evidence of gaps between aspiration and reality. That's not motivating, it's demoralizing.
The reframe is recognizing that releasing aspirational items isn't giving up on dreams. It's getting honest about current reality. You can be someone who wants to paint without owning $300 worth of unused art supplies. You can value fitness without keeping a treadmill you never use. You can appreciate cooking without owning every kitchen gadget ever invented.
If these activities are genuinely important to you, you'll pursue them whether or not you keep the stuff. If you're not pursuing them despite having all the equipment, the equipment isn't the barrier. Releasing aspirational items doesn't close doors. It clears space for who you actually are right now, not who you imagine you might become someday.
For people whose apartments contain remnants of different life phases, decluttering can feel like erasing history. The clothes from your twenties. The books from grad school. The furniture from your first apartment. These items map your personal history, and releasing them feels like losing parts of yourself.
The counter to this is recognizing that you carry your history with you regardless of objects. You don't need your college textbooks to remember being a student. You don't need every concert t-shirt to remember the shows you attended. Memories live in your mind and in photos, not in boxes of stuff you never look at.
Keep a few meaningful items from each major life phase, and release the rest. The items you keep become genuinely special because they're chosen, not just kept from inertia. Everything else served its purpose in that phase of life, and now its purpose is complete.
Getting Started This Week
You don't need to read more articles or wait for the perfect moment to start decluttering. You can begin today with one drawer. Set a timer for fifteen minutes, choose one small space, and make decisions about what stays and what goes.
Tomorrow, do another fifteen minutes in a different spot. By the end of the week, you'll have decluttered seven small spaces and built momentum. By the end of the month, your apartment will look and feel completely different. The holidays will arrive, and you'll have space to enjoy them instead of anxiety about where everything will fit.
The secret to successful decluttering isn't motivation or discipline. It's starting small and staying consistent. Fifteen minutes doesn't require motivation. You can declutter tired, stressed, or busy. You just set a timer and work until it goes off.
Start with your junk drawer. Everyone has one. Dump it out, throw away broken items, donate or relocate misplaced items, and return only useful things to the drawer. Fifteen minutes, one drawer, visible progress. That's how you begin.
The holiday season is coming whether you're ready or not. You can face it surrounded by clutter and stress, cramming new items into already-full spaces. Or you can create breathing room now, so when gifts arrive and family visits, you have space for both the stuff and the people.
Decluttering before the holidays isn't about perfection. It's about creating enough space and order that you can enjoy the season instead of drowning in it. Start with one drawer, work for fifteen minutes, and see where momentum takes you. Your January self will thank you for the work you do this November.
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