5 TIPS FOR ORGANISING AND UNCLUTTERING YOUR HOME

A clutterbug is who excessively hoards, accumulates junks or collects clutter. A compulsive collector who can’t bear to put worthless things in the bin (garbage) or throw anything away that is broken. They have to have all their possessions on show, and hence the always have a dusty house because it is so difficult to clean. At first glance their home looks like a tip, but it is often ordered, just very busy and full.

With determination we can overcome clutterbug, it just take a little persuasion and willingness to change.

These 5 tips will help us to have a clean and organized home:

Step 1 – Act like you are about to move house. Take everything out of the room. (Do one room at a time because overwhelming work can easily discourage the clutterbug so won’t be able to cope.)

Step 2 – Bring back the most important things for the room. For example a living room, the sofa, couch, chairs, TV, stereo, side tables, or the bedroom, bed side tables.

Step 3 – Work out where all the important things sit in the space. Move them so the space flows and that you can move freely around the room. Then sit down and have a look around, breathe in, how do you feel? You should feel liberated. You will find that your chest feels lighter; the air seems to flow better.

Step 4 – Start layering. Select a few things at a time to bring back into the room to decorate with; Paintings, pictures, a vase, a rug, lamps. Do it slowly and feel how the space is changing. Pick out the best items that you want to show, don’t use all of them. I have just heard lately of an expression called editing, it means select the best things you have and enjoy them, change them around periodically or as the fashion you follow dictates, it is important that the room expresses the personality of the owner, but we don’t need their whole life story in one room.

Step 5 – Stop! Yes, don’t keep going. Less is better in a room. Put all the remaining items in storage until you are happy with the new space. Then after a few weeks, sort through it all, keep what is reusable, and donate the rest to a good charity or sell it on ebay. You can cure the clutterbug.

Please note that the illness can easily creep back. To avoid this, make sure if you are going to add new things, you should do it slowly and really consider their impact on the space, you may have to take something out to make room for it. If not, you will again suffer the dreadful fate of becoming a recurring clutterbug.

You can do this; we can cure the clutterbug and create a potential interior decorator out of you yet. Give it a go now.

All the best.