Decluttering Your Home One Step at a Time

When it comes to decluttering your home, baby steps is the way to go. An extremely disorganized home can be quite an overwhelming task to undertake. It is very important to prioritize your rooms by necessity, work slowly but diligently and stay focused at the task on hand. Recruiting willing family members or friends to help you will make the decluttering a little less daunting and a lot more fun. Always remember the motto that 4 hands are better than two!

To begin decluttering your home, start with the rooms that require the most attention. That can be a different room for every person, but the majority of reports say that the main rooms of a house such as the living room, kitchen and bathrooms are the most cluttered.  Once you have chosen which room to tackle first, take on one task at a time. Whether it is organizing and filing away paperwork, cleaning out drawers or removing magnets and take-out menus off of a refrigerator, doing one task at a time will help you to only remain focused on accomplishing one thing before moving on to the next project. 

In any room of your home, make three piles: one to keep, one to donate and the other to toss. Donating items to a charity will make you feel good about giving to a reputable cause and you will feel great throwing away any broken, worn out or unused items. When you have divided everything into the three categories, you will be surprised at what little you have in your “keep” pile. This process can be done in any room; your closet, kitchen, bathroom or playroom. When you are in the process of decluttering your home and you are working on your closet, ask yourself a couple of key questions:

• When was the last time you wore that article of clothing?
• Does it still fit?
• Is there anything missing from the article of clothing (buttons, broken zipper, etc.)

If you can answer those questions honestly, you will feel much better about getting rid of the items in your closet and you will be amazed at how clean and organized your closet stays when you eliminate a huge amount of unworn clothing. Decluttering your home can be a very cleansing experience.