Hey you
I have a assignment for myself and You , (Mom's ) join me.......
I am the one that can hold on to things ....ya know the old bills, the pans , pots , the memoirs from the children's enfant years....and some may say to me ..why ?
I have decided to reduce clutter , reduce the headache , reduce the stress and really seeing things neat in clean.....
WE can start the challenge today and when the clutter is finished ...share pictures of the finished work!
Helpful tips
1.) Purge now: Choose a room in
your home and throw away, donate, and sell items that are not used or
needed in that room. Each day, choose a different room. Before the week
is up, you will have purged your entire home. Collect items in garage or
one area to have a garage sale, or for items to be donated to your
local area shelter, church or charity.
2.) Arm your family with storage options: One
of the biggest reasons home owners or apartment renters feel it is hard to keep clutter at
bay is accessibility to storage options. Find a system that works for
you and your family. Baskets for loose magazines, clear toy bins for
kids, and labeled filing boxes for the home office.
3.) Teach your family to declutter:
When your children bring home arts and crafts, extra papers and
miscellaneous clutter items. Ask them what they like the most, and file
or cleverly eliminate what they don’t want. Older clutter items that
may be taking real estate on kid’s desks and work tables can also be
cleverly disposed of!
4.) Optimize vertical storage: Instead
of trying to use every square inch of your floor space, use vertical
storage. Shelving, book shelves, and vertical storage solutions will
help you gain more floor space and keep everything in plain eye sight.
Use highest shelving for seldom used seasonal items, so you don’t have
to climb a ladder or step stool often.
5.) Make it part of your schedule: If
every weekend for one hour you went through your home and looked for
items that are no longer valid or used, this will keep down clutter
tremendously. Magazine subscriptions, old newspapers, stacks of bills
and mail are all items that should be filed or disposed of weekly
6.) Imagine how great you will feel: Have
you ever walked into a clean room and then right into a cluttered
room? Even though you think it may not affect you, try living in the
cluttered space for days and weeks at a time. You will find you are
less productive, more irritable and less likely to want to spend
meaningful time in the space. Try it.
7.) Make it fun: Let’s face it, if
organizing was more fun… oh how our homes would stay clutter free!
Figure out what motivates you to declutter? Need incentives, new
organization bins, file cabinets, or repainting the home office if you
can keep your space decluttered? Make basket ball hoops over your kid’s
laundry hamper… whatever works, right?!
8.) Know when to let go: Often times,
the source of clutter is our own inability to let go of the old and
unnecessary. This is especially true with clothes, memorabilia, and
family collections. Assess your reason for keeping, and be able to have a
physical place for everything you keep. If the only place your items
fit is in a brown box in the garage, you probably don’t need it.
9.) Every time you finish, put it away: Parents
especially are infamous for telling their kids to put things away after
they play with them, but adults don’t always do the same. Your ability
to put things back after you use them, will keep your home cleaner, and
save you from procrastinating to the end of the week!
10.) Find productivity tools to help: With
the advanced technology era we live in today, there is some type of
productivity tool to help you stay organized and therefore clutter free!
From online resources to help you organize your papers to smart phone
apps to help you organize your business, there is no excuse why you
can’t have a clutter free home and life.
I would love to hear how you keep your home free , Please feel free to share any ideas that you may use
Right Now if you are like me and would like to complete this challenge.......
Lets Go
HAPPY NEW YEAR !
