Can organizing help you declutter? The tidier your stuff is, the more you can pack into a small space, that's for sure. But we all know that's not the same as decluttering! Nonetheless, organizing can help you declutter in a number of useful ways: When you gather together like-with-like to organize it, it's easy to see and find your duplicate (triplicate!) items. You can either give one of them away or have a use it up challenge, whichever is appropriate. When you decide that all your books must fit on the bookshelf in the traditional up and down style, then you must declutter … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Don’t be fooled by the little things
Little things add up to a lot. Overlooking them when decluttering, because they are insignificant, won't allow you to declutter to the fullest extent. You would be surprised how much space in your home is taken up with lots and lots of small objects. During my declutter mission it has always been exciting to declutter the big things like furniture or storage systems. However, I have also taken joy from decluttering the smallest things because without that the big things would not been emptied and able to go. Likewise, bringing small items into your home, because their diminutive size makes … [Read more...]
Mini Mission Monday ~ Keeping it Simple
Mini Mission Monday is about finding ten minutes a day to declutter. To make it easy for you, each Monday I set seven declutter missions, one for each day of the week for you to follow. It takes the guess work out of decluttering and makes it easy and "fun" for you to achieve some quick decluttering. Sometimes you really have to put your thinking caps on when trying to come up with an item to match my mini missions. This week however I am keeping it simple for you. Hopefully you will easily be able to find an object to declutter that matches each category. Monday - Declutter something made … [Read more...]