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Always make your bed. As soon as you get out of it.
Go over your mail over a trash basket, and throw it out immediately when you don't want it.
If you don't like to dust, don't have accessories on top of tables, and put an old sock on your hand to dust when you do.
If you have a dog, make sure your carpet matched the fur. I realize if you have a blue carpet that could be a problem. Get rid of the blue carpet.
In the kitchen, clean as you go. Put used dishes in the dishwasher not into the sink. What can't be seen looks neat.
Take a look to see what you've accumulated too much of. In my case it's paper stuff – back issues of magazines, old paid bills I won't need for proving payments, paperbacks I've read.
You don't have to go through your place like the White Tornado. If you did, you might regret throwing away something you wanted, in your excess of zeal. Find 23 items you can pitch. Put the smaller things in a plastic grocery bag and tie it up. Don't even think of a garage sale or a giveaway. Save that for really worthwhile things – good clothing, furniture. But clothes with holes, cheap paperbacks, dead pens and pencils, food items you'll never use – "TWENTY-THREE SKIDOO!"
Repeat every few days, especially the day before they collect the trash. De-cluttering can be a gradual process. It requires a change in mind-set, which may not happen all at once, but you'll be happier with the results.
If you hang onto too much junk, there won't be any room for the nice new clothes, pretty things, or food packages you'll really use. So get going – it can feel like you're cleaning out your soul.
I often laugh at the comment I see - 'a neat desk is the sign of a cluttered mind'. I think that everyone, to some extent, has some clutter somewhere in their life. It could be at work or home. I seem to be constantly trying to clear 'clutter' from my life and never seem to finish the job. And my desk was never considered 'neat'.
My reason for trying to clear comes from 1 reason - what can I afford to lose or not mind losing if I had to evacuate for a disaster. Since I live in hurricane country this topic comes up at the beginning of the season and lasts until the end of the season.
It is best to tackle one room or one section of a room at a time. Perhaps it is the closet or some miscellaneous drawers. If you have not used something or worn something for an entire year (or forgot you had) then chances are you don't need or want it. Clothing that is likely out of style or now too big (hopeful) on you could be given to charity. It could also be passed to another family member.
If working on paper files remember that you could always get a copy of past bills from the companies if needed - no sense hanging on if over 2-3 months old. Once a new bill comes (and paid) you can always throw the old one out. Keep any insurance information or paperwork needed for next years tax time. Correspondence can be kept in separate folders and then in a storage container. I had the most fun tossing stuff regarding my car. Once I bought a new used one there was no need to hang on to it - great time to shred! New folder for a new used car.
My biggest problem are all the collectibles (some inherited from my parents). Things that belonged to my parents are held separately in a box I can grab at time of evacuation - small things obviously. Beyond that I needed to make a decision if I wanted to hang on just because it belonged to them. You can always ask others in the family if they would like also. I am still deciding.
The main thing is - tackle only ONE area at a time. You can never finish if you stop and think too much about 1 thing. Chances are you will reminisce and never continue. Also - try and pick a day you are alone (no one can change your mind) and it is better if it is a day that is raining or snowing and you don't need to leave the house.
I am still decluttering - never ending at this house.
Most importantly, remain calm and dont forget, it is not a tragedy if you don't get your entire home/room done today. It will be there waiting if enjoying life interrupts you to make a memory or two. Life is too short to spend overwhelmed by housework ,)
If anxiety wins out, throw the clutter away. Stuff, isn't as important as your sanity, joy, health, or time.
Get some nice big boxes (4) ... 1) Things to keep 2) Things to trash 3) Things to Donate 4) Things to give away
Go through each room of your home/apt., etc. and put things lying around in the boxes. After you have done this then look through each box and do what needs to be done with the items in it.
1) The keep box ... put things in their proper place.
2) Trash box ... get rid of it.
3) Donate box ... make calls and get it picked up.
4) Give away box ... Give family/friends call to see if they want any of it. If not, trash it or take it to a consignment store.
If this is done like twice a year ... spring and fall, you won't be as apt to have too much clutter.
It works for me.
Isn't this a pretty easy situation. If you want it, you still want it. If you don't, you toss it out or sell it. How do you decide between the two. Do you use it or not. Not much thought should go in it to ridding your home of useless and non-used items. But if you're a hoarder, then your first step should be seeking help.
Get rid of old stuff by giving it to charity, declutter every once in a while and probably do it with someone else or with some music to not get bored.
Get rid of old stuff by giving it to charity, declutter every once in a while and probably do it with someone else or with some music to not get bored.
complicated aspect look onto bing and yahoo this will help
throw stuff away that's what i do
That’s it. We’re cleaning up around here. That elliptical trainer in the corner is doing nothing but collecting dust and stubbed toes.
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Buy a house twice the size you currently own and make sure it is custom made with extra huge closets for all of you and your wife's or significant other's clothes, shoes, and purses.
Speaking of the above three categories of items....If you haven't worn them or used them in the last two years, donate what is still decent to the waterfront mission or goodwill and make sure to get that generic form to list all things for the tax write off when you file your taxes in February. Both my wife and I have an issue with style, fashion, and buying a lot of shoes and clothes. This creates a huge clutter issue in a house that is less than 1,500 square feet. When we build our retirement home way up in the mountains in eastern Tennessee, the house will be no less than 4,000 square feet with the largest closets you have ever seen.
Top tip to trash or treasure, figure out what it means before buying out to the big farm, forgo precedings to curb clutter, and take to account cost, time and effort, to attain those items, and look at them as memorabilia for history value, or trinkets of lesser events long past,
If there is no urgency to destroy remains of odds and ends, stash away for later,
Time in years pass quick enough, and aging seeps in to where one no longer can deal with some items left on the back burner if hopes and dreams, but sometimes they are reasoning for holding on to as keepsakes,
Sort out and tidy one room at a time, per week or clean up seasonally, take time on weekends to touch up build up of any piles left forgotten,
Dust often, clean seasonally, rearrange, redesign periodically,
repair, restore, recycle,
Fix, fancy, or farewell,
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Loud music, no phone/internet. Get a bucket, get a few clothes. Arm yourself with spray-cleaning things and clean **** up. For decluttering, same goes. Get boxes, arrange/genre it up and just more loud music. Also open doors in two places of the house for a nice breeze while running around.
When I want to hold onto stuff that is not used and is gathering dust I give it to charity. It makes it easier if I know it will help someone.
If it still works pretty well, dust that elliptical as you can probably sell it for some extra cash :)
When I want to hold onto stuff that is not used and is gathering dust I give it to charity. It makes it easier if I know it will help someone.
Picking stuff up and putting them in a different spot to make it look clean.
It's called a "yard sale", honey.
If you have good insurance and a bit of cleverness, it might also be called a fire of mysterious origin.
Stop buying anything else that will be clutter. No more yard sales, or flea markets.
When did you last use it?
< 1 year ago
< over 6 months
get rid
keep it
Very interesting answers here
If you have not used it or even looked at it in a year..sell it, give to family or friends or donate..means it is not for you...especially toys and clothes.
I find it preferable not to be a lazy *** in the first place and not live in my own filth.
To each its own I guess.
remove all your belongings from your home and sell them all thus you have a spotless home with loads of room :D
By not allowing anyone to yuor home.
Get rid of junk you don't need.
Move; It is suprising what you won't take with you.
Don't be a pig?
I have OCD. I don't let my house get dirty.
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