Jamie Hord, founder of Horderly Professional Organizing, understands that struggle well. The Organizing "Poop Rule"“If an item had poop on it, would you keep it or throw it away?” Hord’s so-called “poop rule” is just one method to try if you’re planning on sharing a before-and-after organization project of your own one day. Instead, Hord says that being realistic about your possessions makes it harder to feel nostalgia or shame around them. And maybe at that point, not much of a need for the poop rule, either.