How To Declutter Your Home, Ways To Declutter Fast

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Sandy James

Whether you own a luxurious walk-in closet or a simple one, one thing is for sure, everyone enjoys having a clean and organized closet.  Who doesn’t like being able to find what you want, when you want? Organizing closets is not as hard as people think it is.  In fact, it’s really as easy as 1-2-3.

Group like items with like items.  Take everything out of your closet and place shoes with shoes, belts with belts, coats with coats, pants with pants, skirts with skirts, shirts with shirts, sweaters with sweaters, purses with purses, etc.Arrange.  Now that you’ve grouped your items, you can further arrange them in numerous ways.  You can arrange by color, by season, by fit (tight, fitted, loose), by length (long, medium, short), by material (silks, linens, wool, cotton, denim, etc.), or by purpose (every day wear, evening wear, formal wear.)  For shoes, arranging by color and heel height tends to be a rather effective method.Improve storage.  If you are finding it difficult to fit everything in and actually be able to browse the items, you might consider investing in some additional storage.  Use clear plastic bins with lids to stack and store off-season clothing or clothing that doesn’t fold cleanly and effectively.  Bulky clothing like sweats and hoodies and sweaters are often best stored in bins.  Remember you can stack bins.  This extends your storage vertically, which is highly important when dealing with small closets.  Shoes are another item that can be effectively and efficiently stored in clear plastic bins or even shoe boxes (if you saved them.)  Label your bins, even though they are clear, sometimes having a quick description written as well saves you from having to open the wrong box.

Cabinet, drawer, and shelving systems are additional options available to maximize your closet space and organization.  Items like undergarments and socks and stockings are best stored in drawers or bins.  Purses, hats, belts, scarves and ties can all effectively be managed with hanging or wall mounted organizers and dividers.

Whatever the case, whether your closet is tiny, average, or as big as most people’s bedrooms, taking the time to organize will lead to many benefits.  You will enjoy being able to see the full contents of your closet with a quick glance and be able to locate what you want in a quick and efficient manner.  With little effort, you can take charge of your cluttered closet and start enjoying it today!

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If you enjoy shopping on the internet, then you will be in for a treat with finding the best home organizing stores to shop at.  With their full on catalogues on display on their websites, you will be able to shop easily for what you want.

But let’s get started with reviewing our home declutter project.  If you have already started your home project, consider the requirements of the room in question.  Consider what home organizing items would benefit the room.  Think about extra storage that you can create with existing storage solutions.   More often than not, you will find that there is no need to rush out to the shops to buy a new organizing system.  You already have it in place at home, but maybe you need to do a bit of homework to maximize its use.

One example is the use of bookshelves.  If you don’t stack books and items logically and methodically in your bookshelves, you are not making the best use of your bookcase.  Restack your books to achieve the best use of your bookshelf.

Another classic example is storing items in cupboards that you don’t require.  These items are taking up precious space which could otherwise be utilized to store useful items.

Once you have made good progress with your declutter project, identify what organizational systems would help improve storage space and the utility of the space.  If you have any ideas about what kind of items you would like to look for in a home organization shop, write them down.

Feel free to browse the internet and have a look at the catalogues on offer by home organizing shops.  But be warned that this could be a very tempting approach which may set you back by many dollars.  There are lots of products on offer and you don’t want to overdo it by coming home with too many products.

Stick with a few basic items that you want to buy and in this particular situation, buying less is better than buying too much.  Go home and reorganize your room.  How does it look with the new organizational systems that you implemented?  It it’s looking in good shape, resist the urge to go out to the shops and buy more so called useful items.  There is a time and place for productive shopping.  Now get back to the task at hand and continue your decluttering efforts at home.

Once you have done some more reorganizing you might like to treat yourself to visiting the home organizing shop to buy a couple of items.  Be warned. Don’t over shop otherwise you will have another big clutter problem on your hands.  You know very well what I mean!

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