How To Declutter Your Home, Ways To Declutter Fast

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By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
Author, Houseworks: How to Live Clean, Green and Organized at Home

Family Ties

By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
Author, Houseworks: How to Live Clean, Green and Organized at Home

Get Organized

By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
Author, Houseworks: How to Live Clean, Green and Organized at Home

Clean HouseCleaning Checklists

By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
Author, Houseworks: How to Live Clean, Green and Organized at Home

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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Get Your Clutter Madness under Control

Here are some handy tips on how to schedule a monthly declutter day session in your diary.

Select a Clutter Theme

Make your declutter session as fun as possible. Select a theme for the upcoming month. Your theme could be based around a location – cleaning your kitchen benchtops is a popular one, or getting rid of excess paper piling up in your study is usually another common area requiring attention.

If you plan on having a “heavy duty cleaning” theme, get all your equipment ready for your clean up session ie. bring out your trusty mop, cleaning bucket, cleaning supplies etc. Buy any special cleaning supplies in advance of time if your tasks include polishing or restoring old surfaces.

Before your scheduled monthly clean up day comes around, make a to list of all the things that will require organizing. If your theme is “cleaning the study”, your to do list may look something like:

Sort paperwork and place in your in-tray for filing;

Clear your office desk;

Vacuum the carpets;

Attend to any maintenance issues in your study, for example, buy printer cartridge or restock printer paper.

Make a date with yourself

Book an important appointment with yourself – set a date for your next declutter day session.

Decide on how many hours you can spare each month to reduce clutter in your home.

A couple of hours is an ideal length of time for a Clutter Control session to keep yourself motivated and energized to organize your home.

Save Money by Getting Organized

Who doesn’t like to save money? Taking action every month to reduce clutter helps you to save money each month. For example, you have fewer occasions to do last minute shopping on expensive items for your house, or your kitchen larder is organized in such a way that at any given time you know exactly what items you need to buy for your weekly grocery shop.

So let’s get organized today and schedule your next monthly declutter day.

So that you can enjoy the feel of a well organized house that has had a great declutter makeover!

Best Regards,
Debra

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If you are ready to eliminate clutter from your life, check out my Ebook “Stop the Clutter Bug!” at the following link:

Stop Being a Clutter Bug! – Easy Tips to Declutter and Simplify Your Life

Last Calls for Clutter! – Reader Survey

A while ago, I surveyed readers to find out what their biggest clutter problems are.

Here are as decided by readers of Declutter Day Tips.

Finding Time to Declutter

Readers felt that it was not always easy to find time to reduce clutter in their homes. With their busy daily schedules – that is, working at full time jobs, taking the kids to school and after activities, and time spent on weekends socializing with family and friends, not much time is left to declutter and organize our homes.

Deciding what to do with all that Clutter

Readers felt that it was difficult to make decisions on what to do with all that “clutter”. ie. whether to keep an item, whether to reuse an item, whether to recycle it, or whether to throw it away.

Perfectionism

Lastly, but not least, striving for perfectionism was a stumbling block in trying to reduce clutter in the home and get organized. Readers expressed that they often found it difficult to get started because they wanted to achieve a perfect outcome. So what often happens is that they don’t get started at all.

Best Regards,
Debra

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If you are ready to eliminate clutter from your life, check out my Ebook “Stop the Clutter Bug!” at the following link:

Stop Being a Clutter Bug! – Easy Tips to Declutter and Simplify Your Life