My family decluttered my grandmother's house and organized a huge garage sale. It helped me clean my own apartment.

Courtesy of Meredith Wilshere

This summer, three generations of my family — from my grandmother to my mom and aunts down to me — got together at my grandmother's house to put on a two-day garage sale. The goal was to declutter my grandmother's house, which has been bursting with things since she moved in many decades ago, and other family members also joined the cause.