What’s the best way to uncluttered your home?
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Be ruthless - only keep what you really really need - sort it out room by room - box and label what you are keeping.
Put on some good music and get the bin bags out!!
anything you havent used in the last 6months you dont need so bin it
Hire a skip, and be ruthless.
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Charity shop it , boot fares, garage sale, skip it,
Two words. Garage Sale!!
Take a laundry basket and a trash bag from room to room.
In each room:
Put all garbage in the trash bag.
Put anything that doesn't belong in that room into the laundry basket, and anything that is in the basket that DOES belong in that room, take it out and put it where it belongs.
Keep going until you have an empty basket and a full trash bag!
start room by room and take out everything that you even question that you ever use!
i do that all the time w/ my bedroom!!
if you never use anything.just put it in a pile and sell it @ a garage sale or goodwill.you'll even make money (with the garage sale)
hope this helps!
have a clear out, if you havent used something for six months or more then you dont need it.
if your english? do you remember that programme on BBC2 called life laundry? just hire a small skip and throw away everything that you dont use or need? or give some stuff to charity?.dont know why im giving you advice when my own house is cluttered to the max with stuff i never use! you just have to be ruthless and get rid?
I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER, BUT WILL KEEP AN EYE OUT ON THIS ONE, I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM, NOT REAL BAD, BUT I'VE GO TO NIP IT NOW BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND. FOR SOME REASON HOLDING ON TO A LOT OF PAPERS, AND ITEM WHICH USE TO BELONG TO MY MOTHER, SHE'S NO LONGER WITH US. I GUESS SOME CLUTTER IS SENTIMENTAL. BUT I JUST DON'T NEED IT. NEED TO GET RID OF IT BEFORE HE MOVES HERE FROM MARYLAND TO MARRY.
Throw every thing OUT
Clean out all unused items, do it 4 weeks in the row
If you haven't had any use for the things in your home in the last 6 mo to a year...you probably won't need it.
For the kitchen - I put as much stuff away in the pantry or cupboard. My counter tops are nice and neat and only have the necessities out.
I have bookcases with glass doors to somewhat hide the books and dvd's.
I only have a few frames out at a time - I have many many frames which I switch out from time to time so there is some change and so I don't get bored with my decorations.
I always have fresh flowers on my kitchen table...in a very tall wide vase. It brings in a lot of elegance to my home.
My closet - all shoes are in their original box, clothes are always hung up and put away. i often go through my clothes, shoes, handbags and will end up giving a lot of it to my younger sister or to the good will.
Don't buy a lot of candles.I had this problem. Everytime I went to the mall I would buy some sort of candle. It just adds clutter. Buy one or two to use and then use those plug in air freshners instead..
My photos are all in a memory box that I made and painted and is nice enough to have out in the living room.
Desk - I only have my computer, printer and bill sorter on the desk. everything else in a drawer (pens, calculator, paper...
I have a calendar that organizes my life.also has hooks to hold my keys and purse...
Everything matches and is very colorful..
that's all I can think of now.
That's my biggest problem too. I actually hired a professional organizer to help me unpack when I moved to a new house so I wouldn't get into the bad clutter habits I'd had living the last 10 years in the same apartment.
She stated it simply. If you haven't seen it, used it, or wanted it in the last year, throw it out, give it away or sell it. She had me put everything into piles and whatever I kept, HAD to be labeled! Too may times, out of sight means out of mind and the clutter begins anew.
If you've got a lot of decorative items, find a box to store most of them in, label it, then rotate your decor every 3 or 4 months. It'll let you see the thins you love and keep your home looking fresh and up to date. Containers help too!
The hardest part is learning to let go and throw things out. I made an organizer for when I walk in the door. The mail gets sorted immediately, keys go on the hook, my purse gets emptied out into bins and shoes get put away according to season and color. It's not easy as a lot of times I just want to kick off and forget about it. But it's worth it whenever someone walks into my home and exclaims how neat I am. Little do they know the real me. LOL
I'm also listing some relevant sites which may help you. Good luck!
To do a really good job, you need to take EVERYTHING out of the room. Only do one room at a time or you will feel overwelmed. Avoid the temptation to just move things from room to room.
Now clean the room so it is spotless!
Put back the essentials for the room (furniture, etc) first.
Put back everything you use ON A DAILY BASIS, but only put them in a specified location within the room - say the closet, drawer, basket or whatever.
Then put back things you use on occasion AND have used in the past 5-6 months.
Select 3-5 of your favorite NON-essentials (photos, trinkets, etc.) Stick to the limits on this one - it won't be easy!!
The rest of the stuff either belongs in another room (follow the same steps) OR it becomes someones elses via second hand store, charity, etc. There are plenty of organizations that will actually come to your house and pick up your cast-offs! Check your local resources for that.
Put a match to it, no hard work involved.
Get refreshments and friends, Containers and litter bags. A couple trucks, too. A good weather report: Empty a room completly onto the yard. 3 piles: GO AWAY, KEEP, MAYBE.
Make the Go Away pile go away (dump or re-sale shop or church), reutrn the KEEP items to the room; The Maybe items are packaged and if you don't need them in a month take them out with the next rooms GO AWAY pile.
Leave everything and move.
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