How to Have a Clutter Free Home

Are you Overwhelmed with Clutter?

When you first move into your home it seems like you have all the space you’ll ever need. As the years pass, you might find that you are collecting more things than you have room for.

What are you going to do with all the stuff you have accumulated? Perhaps it’s time to weed out the unnecessary items and organize your home.

Home organization is a step-by-step process. It will take more than a day or even a week to get everything to a manageable level, but once you do staying organized is an easier task. If you have a family, enlist their help. They can pitch in and learn a thing or two about controlling clutter in their life.

7 Helpful Hints on How to Have a Clutter Free Home

1) Start with the high traffic areas. – The living room and kitchen are usually the two most used rooms in the house. Everything gets dropped on a counter or the couch in these two places. Concentrate on getting everything set up the way that you like it before moving on to another room.

2) Use storage containers. – Over the years, the style of storage containers has upgraded to be pretty as well as functional. Instead of storing containers in stacks in the garage, purchase ones that match your décor in each room and integrate them so that no one would even notice they were being used for storage.

3) Divide items into categories. – You can use heavy duty trash bags for this part. Everything that you find can go into one of these bags: KEEP, THROW AWAY, GIVE AWAY, and RELOCATE. Items that will stay in that room are to keep. Things that you don’t need or are broken can be thrown away. Clothes or furniture still in great condition can be donated and scheduled for pickup by the Veteran’s association or Goodwill. Anything that definitely belongs in another room can be labeled for relocation when you get to that room.

4) Remove everything from drawers and cabinets. – This is a time-consuming process but it is easier to start with an empty space and fill it instead of simply pushing things around. If you line things up on the counter, someone else can help by putting the items in some type of order.

5) Make use of all of your available space. – In the kitchen, for example, appliances or extra containers can be stored on top of the cabinets provided they don’t extend all the way to the ceiling. That’s extra storage space without benefit of a storage container. Also use the top of the refrigerator for cereal boxes and breakfast food like boxes of instant oatmeal or grits. In the bedroom, shoes and winter clothes can go into flat storage bins that slide easily under the bed or the dresser.

6) Label your containers. – Use tape and a permanent marker to identify the contents of your storage containers. Avoid writing on the actual container in case they are reused and the contents are changed. Labeling also makes for easy identification if you decide to sell or give away a container of books or something. You won’t have to open each container to locate them.

7) Change your habits. – This is the most difficult step, but it is also the one with the biggest payoff. Once you have established a place for everything, be diligent about returning things to where they belong, instead of just leaving them anywhere.

The biggest payoff for having everything in its place will be the time you’ll save by knowing where to find things.

Organizing your entire house takes time. But, once it is done, returning everything you use to its proper place will maintain that same level of home organization.

Adapted from HomeFreeMedia.com. Used by permission.


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