I need to declutter my house cubbards draws can someone tell me where to start .smiles?
Question:
Answers:
Been working on that for the past few years. Depends on just how fast you want to declutter & how much you want to store/keep.
I started by making a concerted effort to put "like with like" so I had an honest idea just how much I had. (Didn't realise I had about 25 litres of candles.)
How you manage this largely depends on how much time & $$ you have for this project. I volunteer at my daughter's tuckshop & can get my hands on a pile of small (larger than a shoe box) boxes. I can stick them in a place where I can empty pens in one box, wools in another & the like.
Once you have an idea how much similar stuff you have you're in a better place to work out what you want to keep or get rid of.
Don't have high expectations, be realistic of what you can/cannot do. The hardest part is usually just before everything starts to make a difference.
Hope that helps.
Go through everything. If you haven't used it in a year, give it away, donate it to charity, have a garage sale, or throw it away. The stuff you have left after that are the things you actually need. It won't be so hard to fit them into your space once all the other stuff is gone.
Do you have Angels in your garden?
or are they my fairy friends, your a lucky person if you see one, lol xxx
Start at one end and have a few boxes next to you. Discard what you haven't used in the last few years. Place what's important in one, "maybe's" in the next and trash in another. Stick to your task, you'll feel like a million bucks afterward, and your place will be able to stay nicer much easier.
START AT THE BEGINNING HEAVIEST TO LIGHT THING'S
THEN PUT UP A GARAGE SALE SIGN AND GET RID OF THE CLUTTER OR TO A NON PROFIT ORGANISATION.
start in the most cluttered place, and get rid of anything u dont really use! try putting your favourite music on, it will keep you motivated! good luck! xx
Get a couple of big garbage cans and friend. Have your friend go through the drawers while you supervise and throw out all the stuff that's not neccessary. If you go through it alone you wont throw anything out because you'll justify a reason for keeping it. A friend, on the other hand, will point out the stupidity of keeping old junk that you haven't even looked at for years. Its like going through your clothes closet. If you haven't worn it in 6 months get rid of it. Trust me, it worked for me and I'm alot happier without all the junk around. It's very liberating and I feel alot cleaner without all the junk.
Get lots of boxes and plastic bags ready . Have a cold beer or wine ,take a deep breathe and begin . Be ruthless , if you haven't needed it in 6 mnths , chances are you will never need it . Seperate the stuff into recycling shop and rubbish . Don't stop to look it over , just do it . Anything like receipts put in a keep box to reorganize later into plastic sheet folders - I have them labelled for just about everything and one per kid . Remember , we are drowning in "stuff" . If you are tiring put on music and have another drink!
Here is how you start. Remove everything from your kitchen closets and kitchen drawers. Have three large boxes by your side. Label them, keep, throw away, charity. Now as you remove each item, decide in your mind if you really need it and place it in the appropriate box. Once you have accomplished that task, then wash all your cabinets inside and out, dry. Add new shelf paper, and start placing only the things you decided to keep back in the closet. The other box marked throw away...immediately get rid of as trash, and the other box, give away to a charitable organization like Good Will, or give it to someone who is poor and needs it.
I learned that you will end up with much less clutter if you first remove EVERYTHING out to the front yard. Then decide what is worth moving again to get it back inside. Trust me, you will throw away more junk this way than just going through one drawer at a time. This way takes a little more effort but is most effective
Start in the kitchen with one drawer. Move to the left.
When all the drawers are done, do an upper cabinet.
continue, one cabinet at a time. Then the lower cabinets.
In each location, remove everything from the space.
Clean the space, working down from the top. Then look at the items you have removed. Decide what it trash, what returns to the space, and what needs to go in another location. You might even have some "I Don't Know"
items. Have a box available for the IDK's. then replace items in the space you just cleaned. When the kitchen is done,
move on to the bathroom. Good Luck
More Related Questions & Answers...