Organize and Declutter Your Home: Breaking it Down in Baby Steps

Want to get organized? Are you feeling overwhelmed when you take a look around your house only to see the massive accumulation of clutter? Here are the quick an dirty baby steps to organize and declutter your space in one shot without the anxiety.

Phase One Organize and Declutter Your Home:  Schedule and Assign

First schedule time to declutter and organize one room at a time. Once you have assigned and scheduled time for this room transformation. Then the decluttering process begins.

For the decluttering process you will need the following supplies:

• trash bags
• boxes
• sharpie

Begin picking up any clutter to be thrown away, by placing it in the trash bag. Next identify any items that don’t belong in the room, and placing them in a box with an appropriate label. For example, if there dirty dishes in the bedroom, these are items that belong in the kitchen. Now look for unnecessary items that you no longer use and are in decent condition to be donated to charity, sold or given away. These items are to be placed in a box with the appropriate label. Now it’s to move to…

Phase Two : Organize and Declutter: Placing items where they belong

The box of items that don’t belong in the room immediately take to the place in your home where they belong. Take the trash out. The box of donations drop off to your charitable organization. If you are planning to sell items, designate an area in your home until the day of sale.

Phase Three: Organize and Declutter: Rinse and Repeat

It’s really just that simple. Don’t forget to make it fun, throw some of your favorite energizing music. Once you are done with one room, take a good look and give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done. You may even want to take before and after pictures to remind yourself, how different each room feels. If you are organizing and decluttering multiple rooms remember to take breaks.

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