Spring Cleaning is Here! Organize and Declutter Your Home Today.
Where to start? Start small; pick a target, such as a desk, countertop, or just a drawer. Clear the space completely. Sort the Items you removed into piles. One for what you want to keep, one for discards, and one for donation. Considering the KEEP pile carefully, if an item is sentimental to you, maybe store it, or ask yourself these questions. This is special to me, but what’s going to happen to it when I am no longer here? Will one of my children, grandchildren, niece, or nephews want it?
I brought this up because several years ago, my husband and I decided to sell our 5-bedroom home and move into an RV and travel! So, I decided to get a box for each of my children and fill it with the things that I thought they may want, eventually. I put everything from cards, ornaments, school pictures, a stuffed animal, their baby books, to locks of hair I kept from their first haircut. I gave them the boxes and told them Here are your childhood memories, do with them what you will. I also gave some sentimental items to my nephew and niece that I thought they may want that had belonged to their grandparents.
When you have decided on what you want to keep, put the items back. Then step back and look at the space that you just decluttered. How does it look? Are you happy with It? If you are great, if not, then reconsider just how much you need or want these items. Then move on to donations. Put them in a bag and take them out to your car so the next time you’re out, you can drop them at a donation center. Don’t leave the bag in the house where you might forget about it or be tempted to pull thigs back out.
Next the discard pile. Take it to the trash! NOW! You also you don’t want to leave it hanging around the house. Another way to get started decluttering is to get a trash bag and go around your house deposing of unused items. Ask yourself “when was the last time I used this?” Is it even usable anymore? Throw out things like old receipts, dried up nail polish, old make and beauty supplies that you don’t use, expired products, worn out shoes, sauce packets, anything you haven’t used in the last year! Throw it out!
