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Declutter Your Home

Declutter Your Home Room-by-Room

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My declutter guide will take you through your home and office room-by-room with tips and tricks to declutter your home quickly and efficiently. This Declutter Guide offers:

  • Step-by-step instructions for delcuttering every room in your home;
  • How to get rid of general housegold clutter;
  • The reason you might have clutter;
  • How to delcutter by learning to let go; and
  • Tips to declutter your space.

How to Declutter Bathrooms

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How to Declutter Bedrooms

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How to Declutter Closets

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How to Declutter Computers, Offices & Workspaces

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Clutter control doesn't just apply to rooms. Your computer may be teeming with clutter like old files you no longer need. Here are great ways to spend 10 minutes or less organizing your computer.

Declutter Guide: Computers

Workspaces & Offices 101

How to Declutter Entryways

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Decluttering your home's main entryway is a task that needs to be tackled weekly if not daily. Here is a guide to declutter this high-traffic area in 30 minutes a week.

How to Declutter the Entryway in 30 Minutes a Week

How to Declutter General Household Clutter

Some tasks affect the whole house, and sometimes I find I'm more effective walking from room-to-room decluttering rather than being bogged down in one small area. The Household Decluttering Guide is a reference sheet for those occasions.

How to Declutter

Household Resources

How to Declutter Kitchens

Cutter control tips for your kitchen when you have 10 minutes or less. These are the quick and easy little projects you can complete while waiting for that pot to boil, including organizing appliances and Tupperware quickly and efficiently, bagging up snacks, and establishing a recycling center. All in 10 minutes or less. Promise.

Kitchens 101

How to Declutter Resources

How to Declutter with the Weekly Organizing Routine
The strongest weapon in your anti-clutter arsenal is to have a plan. My strategy is to declutter a different room in your home daily.  Doing a little bit everyday is smart for 2 reasons:

  1. Once you start delcuttering daily, you'll get better and faster at it; and,
  2. You'll begin to notice patterns that will lead to better home organization.

Follow the Weekly Organizing Routine

How to Declutter with Clutter Busters

The great thing about these clutter busters is that you probably already have some of them hanging around your house. Put them to better use as super clutter busters.

  • Trays
  • Jars
  • Bin
  • Cubbies
  • Hooks

Declutter with Clutter Busters

What is Clutter?
Before you begin decluttering, you need to know how to spot clutter. Maybe it's trash, maybe it's important possessions you need but don't have a proper storage space, or maybe it's stuff you've accumulated to feel better about yourself. Read the guide to What is Clutter to root out and define clutter in your home.

Declutter: What is Clutter?

This is Why You Have Clutter
You're not lazy, you're not a hoarder and you're probably not even as disorganized as you think you are. More likely, you're not sure how to store, how long to keep and how to let go of the most common sources of clutter.

Discover the reasons Why You Have Clutter.

5 Quick Tips to Declutter

If clutter control is difficult for you, you're not alone. According to Psychology Today some people are born hoarders. Use our 5 top tips to control clutter in any area of your home or office.

  1. Start slow
  2. Handle objects only once
  3. Scale down collections
  4. Put it in a box.
  5. Toss un-used items

5 Tips to Break the Hoarding Habit

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