De-clutter!?
Question:i need to declutter my room and get rid of stuff i dont neeed. im really bad at leting stuff go but i need to. where puting our house up for sell sonn and people will be coming in and out to look and my room hase to be decluttered and clean. help please i have no clue how to do this!!
Answers:
Round up all your clutter in one pile, then sort your stuff in 3 bins 1- stuff to keep 2- stuff to donate/yardsale 3- trash. If you are like me & have lots of clothes and don't want to part with them, keep the items that you have worn in the last year, and discard the rest. Odds are that you will not wear them again. Hope this helps, good luck
First go through all of your clothes - set aside what you haven't worn in a year and give it away. Make piles for what needs to be cleaned, repaired, or just put away into storage. Then go on to different categories of items and do the same. Once you pare down everything, give your room a thorough cleaning.
Noone wants to look at a home for sale with lots of junk in it!
This is what I call "purging." Take all the stuff you don't need,put it in a pile and either donate it or throw it away.
Get 3 big plastic bins--put in stuff you absolutely want to keep in one; stuff you want to get rid of in another (and take it to the Goodwill, homeless shelter etc after 3 days) and things you aren't sure of go in the third. Then if you don't miss any of these items in a week or two, out they go. Also, ask your friends if they would like anything too--one person's junk is another's treasure. Console yourself that some one else is going to love having stuff that they may not be able to afford. For selling your house, all personal stuff should be out and most surfaces should be bare except for maybe a vase of flowers, a single decorative piece (good quality), a few books etc. Also, once you move, let some questionable pieces sit in the packing boxes, again if you don't miss it--it goes. Sometimes you need a neutral person to help you declutter (you are too close to it!); ask a good friend or your real estate agent for pointers.
you have to really want to get rid of the stuff/clutter. It's said that you should get rid of anything you haven't worn in a year or two.
You can always rent a small U-Haul locker and put all your not-useful stuff in there. If you don't go to get it in a couple of years then you know you can dump all that stuff. Or, over time pull out one item at a time when you need it. What's left over over a length of time you can throw away.
For each item that you can not immediately throw in the garbage:
1) give the item an estimated date of next use.
2)If you cannot give it a date, toss it, or if valuable donate or sell it.
3) If you are not going to use it in the next 6 months, and it has a dollar value less than $20 bucks. Toss it, give it, sell it, just get it out of your life.
4) If you are going to use it soon and can give it a date, give it a home (specific to this particular item).
5)If it is of value and you don't have a date for use. Get rid of it. Purge, Purge, Purge.
6)If you think you will use it, but haven't thus far, history is bound to repeat itself. Toss it.
Step 1 you need four boxes. Label them -goodwill, throw away, fix, put up. (you might not need that one.)
Goodwill is anything you haven't worn or used in a year.
Throw away is stuff that is broken beyond repair.
Fix is only if you hafta have it in the house.( You could just throw it away too since your moving)
Put up is place it in the right drawer.
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