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3 Tips for Effectively Decluttering and Organizing Your Home

It’s probably fair to say that everyone wants their home to stay neat, organised, and pleasing to the eye both inside and out.

Unfortunately, however, life frequently gets in the way and complicates situations – and even the best of intentions can go awry amidst the normal hustle, bustle, and assorted chaos of everyday existence.

If you find that your place has recently become a lot more cluttered and disorganized than you would like it to be, here are a few effective tips you can try for decluttering and organizing your home.

  • Try to get as much of it as possible done in one fell swoop

One point made by the Japanese cleaning guru Marie Kondo, is that you need to treat your home decluttering process as an “all in one job” proposition.

In other words, you can’t just do a little bit of tidying up now, and then a bit more tidying up in a couple of weeks, and so on. If you do things this way, the clutter you’ve just recently done away with will resurface practically at once.

Instead, set aside a weekend – or a couple of weekends – and try to get your home de-cluttered to the best of your ability, in one fell swoop.

You could look into things like skip bin hire, for example, in order to help you get through things that much faster.

  • Hold onto things that you have an emotional attachment to, and things that have a practical use

The act of decluttering is often emotionally painful for people, largely because they frequently end up forcing themselves to get rid of things they have an emotional attachment to, but which they believe don’t fill a “practical” role in their lives.

This is where you should listen to the Marie Kondo principle of paying attention to what “sparks joy.”

Keep the things that you have a positive emotional attachment to – even if they aren’t useful in any real sense. Then, also hold onto those belongings of yours that have a practical use and that fill an important niche in your life, even if you’re not very emotionally invested in them.

It’s the other stuff – things that you aren’t particularly attached to, and that don’t have an important practical role, that you should primarily cut back on.

  • Find ways to make the process more fun and engaging – such as by listening to audiobooks or music as you work

Just because decluttering your home is a bit of a chore, doesn’t mean it has to be an unpleasant experience by definition.

One great way of motivating yourself to get through the decluttering process rather than putting it off continually, is by finding little ways to make the process more fun and engaging.

You could, for example, listen to audiobooks or music as you work – thereby turning up the energy level, or getting yourself immersed in a good tale while you are hauling bags of stuff out to donate or dump.

13 thoughts on “3 Tips for Effectively Decluttering and Organizing Your Home

  • We made a promise a long time ago that if we bought something new, to throw out or take to Goodwill something. That way we won’t add to what we already have.

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  • I really needed these. I do my best to stay organized, but the house does tend to get away from me at times.

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  • I’ll keep these in mind. I need to declutter pretty badly. My garage is especially scary.

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  • I love to listen to music while I’m decluttering my home.

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  • Oh, I definitely have to listen to music while cleaning. Otherwise, it’s boring! lol

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  • I’m surely gonna keep this in mind! These are all really great and very helpful tips!

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  • These are excellent ideas and suggestions. My sons room needs some work. I’m in the middle of remodeling my house and decluttering as I go. I haven’t touched my sons room yet.

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  • These are great suggestions, I’ve been decluttering for years now, and one of the wonderful things that I do is listen to music and also my son helps me a lot.

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  • These are some great tips to keep in mind. I feel like clutter is the kind of thing that definitely creeps up on you. Saving this article to refer back to since I’m doing my spring cleaning next week!

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  • I love decluttering and organizing my wardrobe every spring. I start the warm season better this way!

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  • I am all about being organized lately, and getting rid of clutter. Your tips are very helpful! I like staying on top of cleaning things out.

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