Find an Easy Way to Declutter Your Home
A clutter-free home is easier to maintain, so if clutter has taken over your home, you need an effective way to deal with it. The following method is an easy way to declutter your home, one room at a time.
Use Designated Bins as an Easy Way to Declutter Your Home
The first easy way to declutter your home is to gather four bins, laundry baskets, or cardboard boxes and designate them as follows:
- Recycle or Repurpose: Most paper, plastic, glass, and some metal or electronics can be taken to your recycling center.
- Donate: Nice clothing that you no longer wear, dishes, toys, and decorative items can go to thrift stores.
- Reorganize: Other items that you want to keep may just need a new home somewhere else in the house.
- Trash: Items that are damaged or unusable should be thrown away.
Use these bins to sort through the clutter so you can reorganize with a clean slate.
Start with the Living Room
Begin in the living room by clearing off the coffee table, bookcases, and side tables. Put books or magazines that you no longer want in the donation bin. Take items out of drawers and shelves and sort through them. Next, move on to the entertainment center. Find a permanent place for remote controls, gaming equipment, and other regularly used items. Put old CDs, games, and DVDs that haven’t been used in a while in the donation bin.
Declutter the Kitchen
Decluttering the kitchen is challenging, but you’ll be rewarded with a user-friendly cooking space. Sort through items by category (utensils, glassware, bakeware) or by zone (cabinets, counter space, drawers, and pantry). Free up space on counters. You’re likely to do more reorganizing here than in any other room.
If you’re overstocked with dishes, donate the ones you don’t use. Many plastic items can be recycled. Decide on a permanent location for cookbooks. Put pasta and rice in clear glass or plastic canisters.
Declutter the Bedrooms
Begin with the nightstands. Move items that don’t belong in the bedroom to the reorganize bin. Throw away empty tissue boxes, dried-up pens, broken eyeglasses, etc. Go through the dresser drawers and donate or throw away old clothing and accessories. Do the same for your closets. Fold and store extra blankets and pillows.
Declutter the Bathrooms
Take everything out of your medicine cabinet and discard outdated medicines, old makeup, and empty containers. Put away what is left by storing the most-used items at eye level. Follow this same routine for bathroom drawers and cabinets. Place half-empty shampoos and soaps in a place where they will get used before new ones.
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