How to Eliminate Clutter?

Sometimes in life we get so busy that we dont have much time to keep ourselves oraganized at home. We leave things to pile up untill we are living in one big clutter. How to you Get rid of the clutter you ask? Well I will give you a couple of steps which you can take to live in a clutter free environment.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Sometimes in life we get so busy that we dont have much time to keep ourselves oraganized at home. We leave things to pile up untill we are living in one big clutter. How to you Get rid of the clutter you ask? Well I will give you a couple of steps which you can take to live in a clutter free environment.You have to make sure you make sometime to do this though. Whether it is an hour a day or an entire weekend.
   
   1.First rule should be If you havent used it In Over a year get rid of it.

2. 2. When de-cluttering your home your going to have to make three piles of the items you want removed.
   
   First pile will be : Items you want to throw out.
   
   Second pile will be : Items you want to sell.
   
   Third pile will be : Items you want to donate to charity

3. 3.Sometimes it will take you awhile to do this but remember take it one step at a time.

4. 4. Organize items in your home for example put things where they belong like books on a shelf , basically put common things together and in easy places so you can always find what you are looking for.

5. 5.Invest in some shelving or cabinets to store any items that are overflowing or don't belong in a specific place.

6. 6.If your dealing with alot of clutter remember to attack one room at a time.

7. 7. Ask someone for help whether its your kids, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend or friend.

8. 8.Recycle unneccessary paper you have lying around.

9. 9.With clothing make sure you hang them in a closet or fold them neatly in a drawer. A good thing to have when dealing with clothes is storage bags which you can vacume suck the air out which will save you alot of room in your closet. Also get plastic storage bins for other items . This way you can pile them one on top of the other.

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    10. Always put things back where they belong..and if you dont need it get rid of it.
    
    Always remember Get rid of the things you dont need. Clothing and papers are one of the biggest problems people have when living in clutter.
    
    Start by Organizing the most cluttered room first . This way you when your finished all the other rooms that are less wont seem such a big deal now that the worst room has been organized. Plus you can look at it and motivate yourself more to finish whatever else needs to be organized.
    
    When you dont live in clutter I believe you will become less stressed out. Dont give up. Good luck.

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on 1/11/2008 ok, so what if your room is full of smaller piles and you have no room to make new piles?