Who Else Wants a Clutter-Free Home?

A cluttered home can feel suffocating. Being surrounded by junk on all sides is not ideal and can stress you out over time. If you want to declutter your home, keep reading this quick, helpful guide to find out what changes you can start making today.

Do a Thorough Spring Cleaning Every Year

Start out by doing a purge on unnecessary items in your home. You could sell, donate, or upcycle old clothing and other items.

Go through all the drawers in your home and remove clutter. Old bills and things of that nature can stack up quickly. Getting rid of them gives you more storage space for more important stuff. Check for mostly empty bottles too- you would be surprised how often you find mostly empty products laying around in your bathroom.

Assign a Place For Everything

The next step is to find a place for everything in your home. For example, do not leave your dirty clothes lying around your room. Do your best to put them in a laundry basket after taking them off at the end of the day.

If you notice that you have a ton of stuff sitting on counters and tables with no place for them, consider buying a tote that you can fill and put under a bed or in a closet. This makes important stuff easier to find and clears away everything that you had no idea what to do with.

Make Picking-up a Habit

When we were kids, we always heard “Put away your toys when you’re done with them!”, but as adults, do we still habitually pick-up after ourselves?

Make it a habit to put away your stuff when you are done using it and your home will thank you. After taking the time to do a major decluttering, you do not want to return to having a home stuffed with junk later. Take the time now to form a new habit.

Change Your Decorations

Sometimes, the decor and furniture arrangement of your home is what is making everything feel so cluttered. Crowded walls can make a space feel packed, consider rearranging or removing some items from your walls.

On the other hand, solid flat objects like mirrors or rugs open up areas on walls. Consider redecorating your living room wall with a real cowhide rug to add interest and personality to your home. It will get your guests interest and get you compliments!

You may be wondering how to hang a cowhide without nails. Well, that is pretty easy. You just need to use rod hooks or hangers to attach the rug to the wall. There are also rug clamps that hold the rug in place on your wall.

Keep Clutter Out

You will also want to do your best to keep clutter out of your home. To do this, bring in what you bought to a designated area and sort through it. Decide right away what is clutter and what is not- and throw out what you do not need.

By deciding right away you are giving yourself less of a chance to hold on to what you do not need. People love to collect and keep junk because they think they might need it later. Take time to consider what you need and do not need every time you come home with something.

Some ideas for a designated “catch-all” to stop clutter entering your home include:

• A small table near your entryway
• A specific counter in the kitchen
• Any flat surface you use frequently

Sort through your belongings in these areas- using the same space every time encourages you to think critically about what you need to keep or toss.

Know What Life is About

Life is about collecting memories, not material objects. You can avoid clutter by simply realizing this fact.

You will feel better spending money on furniture or similar long-term items than you will on small items that will not last as long. Short-term objects, such as pencils, papers, or small objects like hair accessories, often liter people’s homes all while adding nothing to the space.

Consider rearranging your furniture to see what you have space for and go from there. Durable items, like cowhides or couches, hold memories and will be more useful to you in the long run.

Learn to gauge what is worth spending on and what is not- you will save yourself a ton of clutter over the years.

Realize No One is Perfect

Do not be discouraged if you find clutter taking over your home again! All you need to do, is stop, take a deep breath, and start with a major decluttering again.

No one is perfect. There will be times where your home feels full of stuff you do not need and you will not be able to find the motivation to clean- that is okay! It happens to everyone. When you feel up to it, work on getting back to a clutter-free home.

When you finish, do your best to keep everything in line again. If you notice it is becoming cluttery again, stop and declutter. Catching it before it becomes a problem is the best way to keep your space clutter-free.

No one has the perfect home, do not stress about it.

Summary

In short, there are plenty of ways to achieve a clutter-free home. You will always want to start with a major Spring cleaning and going from there, after you have removed a good amount of unused items. This is always the hardest part, but once you start, you will feel so much better.

Assign a place for every little thing and be sure to form a habit of picking up when you are done doing something. Decluttering is easier when you stop it before it starts taking over your space- so learning how to pick-up after yourself is crucial to a clutter-free home!

Finally, consider changing up your decorations and know that clutter happens to everyone.