Declutter Your Home: The Secret to a Clutter-Free Home

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Declutter Your Home

The Secret to a Clutter-Free Home

Want to declutter your home for good? The secret to a clutter-free home is to rid yourself of the emotional clutter that keeps you from feeling satisfied in the knowledge that you have enough, and that compels you acquire MORE.

Decluttering your house can be a daunting task if you don't have the resolve to loosen your attachment to your material possessions and your need to buy, buy, buy.

Cleaning your house for the sake of neatness, efficiency and organization is great. When you declutter your home for the sake of living simply, happier, and more satisfied, it is liberating and soul cleansing...

Thrifty Living: Getting Rid of Clutter

If you want to live the simple life, don’t be in a rush to get rid of all your belongings, however. For the sake of the planet you mustn't just carelessly, or without thought, send them to a garbage dump.

In as much as you can, reduce—yes, but be watchful of any and all opportunity to reuse, donate and recycle .

For now let’s just stick to the basics. An organized home frees up your time to do the things you want to do without feeling guilty or over-stressed. It also allows you to easily find things when you need them.

Home Organizations Tips

• Re-configure your existing space to fit your needs.

• Separate and purge

• Organize frequently used items

• Store seldom used items

Declutter Tips: Separate Trash from Treasure

When you begin to declutter your home, start by separating all your trash and treasures into four bins or piles labeled Keep, Donate, Sell and Recycle. Make decisions quickly and efficiently. Your time and your space living space are valuable commodities and you don't want to waste either.

• Household Clutter - Be choosy; don’t keep furniture & accessories just because you’ve had them forever. If it’s broken, stained, damaged or you hate it, donate it.
Wherever possible repair, clean, or mend it.

• Clothing is clutter, too- If you haven’t worn in a year, doesn’t flatter your figure, is the wrong color, torn, stained, or you dislike—donate or discard.

• Well-intentioned Gifts - Keep only items that you love or serve a purpose. Regift to someone you know will treasure or or needs it.

• Collectables, keepsakes and mementos - Be ruthless and keep just a few very special items. Display them and enjoy them. You can always photograph an item to keep the memory.

• Toys - Purge frequently. Teach your children to donate. Use the “one in, one out rule.” Kids don’t need every new-fangled toy on the market. I remember playing outside with nothing more than my imagination.

• Magazines, books, videos & tapes - If magazines pile up unread, cancel the subscription. Purge textbooks & paperbacks. Keep your most favorite videos & tapes, donate the rest.

Be creative and environmentally-conscious with purged items. Donate them to charities, hospitals, local churches, hospice, women, homeless or pet shelters, and recycling centers to name a few. And don’t forget family and friends that have previously admired an item or are in need of one.

Clutter No More

Frequently Used Items like clothing, linens, useful tools, kitchen utensils, toys, work-related items, household finance ledgers & checkbook, sporting equipment you use routinely.

• Keep close by in drawers & shelves within arms reach, at eye level, countertops, hooks on doors, center of cabinet shelves & closet poles.

Occasionally Used Items like seasonal sports & lawn equipment, holiday china & party decorations, seasonal clothing, & luggage.

• Store in drawers or shelves above eye level or at floor level. (except in a child’s room)

• Store in sealed boxes, unused trunks or suitcases, blind side of cabinet shelves, top closet shelves or rods, and loft in garage, attic or storage facility.

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You can use these ideas to keep your home more organized, clutter-free, and efficient.

Now you’ll have more free space and less stuff cluttering up your life. By downsizing your clutter you can live comfortably in smaller quarters.

You’ll be able to enjoy the things you have plus free up more time to do the things you love.

Remember to buy less, much less, and simplify, simplify, simplify. Continue to declutter your home periodically to avoid accumulation of unwanted “stuff”. See Declutter Your Home Resources.

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