Everyone has a different way of thinking about how to clean and organize their space. This has a lot to do with our daily lives and how scr888 much time we really want to spend on picking things up when we may have more important things to do. Although, if you stop and really think about your home and what your home means to you, shouldn't it be maintained regularly then? Your home is your sanctuary and it is where you go to relax and enjoy your family and friends. A clean home is a healthy home.
There are a number of excuses as to why clutter happens in our homes. I don't want you to make excuses; I want you to be able to have the knowledge to organize clutter in your home. The knowledge that is useful to help you to keep your home clean as well as you and your family healthy. The first rule of preventing chaos is to put an item away once you are done with it.
The time to take charge is when you feel that you can't keep up with the mess. It's okay to ask for help if you need it because if you don't do it now it will be much harder down the road. So what can you do to organize clutter? Good rules of thumb are to keep like things together if it has a container to hold it - use it, if you don't use it for 6 or more months store it or get rid of it (except seasonal items but there are exceptions to this as well).
More often than not, you just may not know where to begin to organize clutter. I suggest that you pick the room that you use the most and only work in that room until you're done. If you move to another room, you can easily get sidetracked and this won't accomplish a thing. Be prepared and have garbage bags for garbage, a bag or box for donations and a tote for things that need to go elsewhere in your home. So now what do you do?
So far, it is fairly easy but now things heat up because now you are tackling the actual clutter. From here you can pick one point in the room and begin deciding if an item should be kept, tossed or donated. An alternative process is to look around and decide what you see the most. Is it clothes, and if so, then work on just dealing with the clothes and nothing else. If the tag is still on it and you bought it two months ago, you obviously aren't going to wear it so donate it.
You can organize clutter and by keeping the tasks simple and finishing one task before you start another will help you win control over the clutter. Work on the clutter each day whether it's for twenty minutes or 45 but you need to stay focused. There will be items you don't know what to do with and that's okay too; simply set it aside and the answer will come to you later. Before you know it, you will be able to organize clutter with your eyes closed.
