Future Spring Cleaning Giveaways:

• What space do you need help cleaning up? Send us a note and let's make a giveaway with your theme in mind! Email community@freeya.com.

It’s tough to admit, or maybe just hard to identify, until—you’re moving. When faced with the reality of touching every possession—carefully placing them into a box, moving the box in and out of doorways and trucks and more doors, and then carefully taking those possessions out of their nice box—I think we can agree there is no box big enough in which to hide the truth.

And the truth is, we have too much stuff.

To help us tidy our relationship with the company we keep (we’re talking to you, Stuff) we’ve reached out for some expert advice from Jessie Culbert Boucher , a licensed real estate agent in Washington State. She’s got an intuition about manifesting a low-stress move that we just can’t replicate. Over the next few weeks Jessie shares her advice for moving out and moving in, and we’re all ears.

Part 1. Moving out—Edit Thyself.

The first step toward getting ready to move is the purge. You all knew this was coming… whether you are vacating a rental or selling a home, the edit is the first step towards moving out. I like to use the rule of two-thirds: ⅔ goes. ⅓ stays.

Stuff accumulates. That’s the nature of living, so a thoughtful paring down of items that have gone unused for a year or more is a good place to start. Selling houseware items is typically not worth the effort. That’s where Freeya comes in. It’s just more efficient to rehome items you’re done with on the app — even large items thrift stores won’t take.

In our next letter, we'll have more tips from Jessie on staging and moving into your new place! Thanks for getting us started, Jessie!!

Did you hear?? Freeya is teaming up the Rebuilding Center in Portland !! We're fanatics about their mission to make reuse and repair accessible to all as a means to reduce waste, end overconsumption, and empower homeowners and renters by making better use of our existing resources.

Over the next three weeks — treasures from the Rebuilding center will be live in the Freeya feed. Claim and visit the store on Mississippi Ave for pick up. We couldn’t be more excited! Keep eyes 👀 and bring home these 💎 !

Seattlites—Bring home the hagge (the Scandinavian cozy) during Freeya’s Seattle promotion to organize your home after all that spring purging you’ve been doing ;) Thank you for helping us launch Freeya in Seattle!

No need to spread that fresh garden bounty all over the counter! Claim this basket on Freeya and get those sweet peas in order!