Everyday living causes clutter to build up if you’re not careful. Work items, school items, toys, electronic equipment, and paperwork can begin to collect throughout your home. Eventually, it’s hard to find anything when you need it. Here are 5 tips to help declutter your home and make your living space more enjoyable.
Tackle One Area at a Time
Starting to declutter your home may feel overwhelming, especially if you have problem areas in every room of the house. Tackle the worst areas first. Give yourself time to sort and dispose of things properly, going from one room to the next. Don’t simply move items from one room to store them in another.
Sort Through All Items to Declutter Your Home
Take a close look at everything you have and determine whether you need each item. Children’s sports equipment, old hobby materials, clothing you don’t wear, and unused school books aren’t serving any useful purpose in your home. Sort through all items and decide whether they should be kept, donated, thrown away, or sold.
Purchase or Make Suitable Storage
Your local home improvement store has a wide variety of storage boxes, cabinets, and compartments to help organize your home. In some cases, you may want to consider having cabinets and storage boxes built into your home décor.
Take Special Care with Paper Clutter
You may have paperwork in boxes and in files that is taking up a significant amount of space in your home, basement, or garage. Some of these papers might be taxes, deeds of ownership, or other important matters. Carefully sort through papers to find important documents and put these into appropriate, waterproof storage containers for safekeeping. Shred the papers you no longer need.
Dispose of Items Thoughtfully When You Declutter Your Home
Before getting rid of older children’s belongings, ask for their help sorting and deciding which items are the most important to them. Generally, older children have a sentimental attachment to special things that are meaningful to them, whether this is clothes, gifts from relatives, or things from their childhood.
Decluttering makes your home more comfortable and reduces stress. Create designated areas for all of your belongings so that clutter doesn’t accumulate again and your house stays tidy and organized.
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