Home Makeover: Strategies to Declutter Your Home
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Published on 02/28/2010
It may not be everyday that you receive a visitor, but when you do, you know that he or she will certainly take notice of your home If your home is in great shape, you feel proud; but if your home is a mess, you feel embarrassed
It may not be everyday that you receive a visitor, but when you do, you know that he or she will certainly take notice of your home. If your home is in great shape, you feel proud; but if your home is a mess, you feel embarrassed. If you have been planning a hundred times to declutter your home, but never did, this article can help you get started and keep your home the way you have dreamed it to be.
Where to start?
The first thing you should remember when you are about to declutter your home is to start slow. Take note that you didn't wake up one morning in a cluttered home. You didn't wake up one day in a house full of memorabilia, keepsakes, and items otherwise known as junk. Everything that is classified as junk in your home pile up over time like a habit that makes you what you are. And so, to successfully declutter your home, you should start slow and make a small and steady progress until it becomes a positive habit you can keep.
Set a time to declutter your home. If you want to differentiate the kitchen sink from your drawer or your bed from your sofa, do not attempt to do it in one session. Declutter your home one area at time. This way, you will prevent getting overwhelmed with the task at hand and can see that you are making a progress. Cleaning and decluterring can take 15 minutes each day. Do this everyday and you will surely see that the TV remote is just on the coffee table.
What do you need?
Obviously, you need the right motivation to get things done and keep up with your goal to declutter your home, however, you need something else. The primary cause of clutter is the lack of storage for your items. Toys, magazines, clothes, newspapers, and common household items lose their way and mix with one another, thus making a transition to clutter because they don't have a home.
Create a home for each of your stuff. Make sure that newspapers and magazines are folded and stacked properly; toys should be kept in one container; clothes should either be in the cabinet or in the laundry; and common household items should not wander around the house.
Throw away everything you don't need. A good rule is, if you haven't used something inside your house for at least 6 months, you will most likely not use it anymore. Grocery receipts, empty bottles of vitamins, expired vitamins, scratch paper, and other kitchen junk have no place inside your home.
How to keep your home clean?
It is not always an assurance that it remains clean after you declutter your home. In the first place, there is no clutter-free living. However, to keep your home as clutter free as you can, establish a habit of returning everything to its original places and regularly throw everything you no longer need. After reading a newspaper, fold it; after one day, throw it away. Don't let things sit in your home longer that it needs to be. If you bring in an item, bring one out.
Where to start?
The first thing you should remember when you are about to declutter your home is to start slow. Take note that you didn't wake up one morning in a cluttered home. You didn't wake up one day in a house full of memorabilia, keepsakes, and items otherwise known as junk. Everything that is classified as junk in your home pile up over time like a habit that makes you what you are. And so, to successfully declutter your home, you should start slow and make a small and steady progress until it becomes a positive habit you can keep.
Set a time to declutter your home. If you want to differentiate the kitchen sink from your drawer or your bed from your sofa, do not attempt to do it in one session. Declutter your home one area at time. This way, you will prevent getting overwhelmed with the task at hand and can see that you are making a progress. Cleaning and decluterring can take 15 minutes each day. Do this everyday and you will surely see that the TV remote is just on the coffee table.
What do you need?
Obviously, you need the right motivation to get things done and keep up with your goal to declutter your home, however, you need something else. The primary cause of clutter is the lack of storage for your items. Toys, magazines, clothes, newspapers, and common household items lose their way and mix with one another, thus making a transition to clutter because they don't have a home.
Create a home for each of your stuff. Make sure that newspapers and magazines are folded and stacked properly; toys should be kept in one container; clothes should either be in the cabinet or in the laundry; and common household items should not wander around the house.
Throw away everything you don't need. A good rule is, if you haven't used something inside your house for at least 6 months, you will most likely not use it anymore. Grocery receipts, empty bottles of vitamins, expired vitamins, scratch paper, and other kitchen junk have no place inside your home.
How to keep your home clean?
It is not always an assurance that it remains clean after you declutter your home. In the first place, there is no clutter-free living. However, to keep your home as clutter free as you can, establish a habit of returning everything to its original places and regularly throw everything you no longer need. After reading a newspaper, fold it; after one day, throw it away. Don't let things sit in your home longer that it needs to be. If you bring in an item, bring one out.