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home -- clutter -- help with clutter Time to Get Some Help With ClutterA cluttered home is usually the combination of too little space, too much stuff, and disorganization. The best help you can have with reducing clutter is yourself, your creativity, your willpower, and the support and help of everyone in the household. Getting the rest of the family to help with clutter can be difficult. The most common way to get help with clutter is to develop a chore list. I suggest taking this one step further. Create a clutter list as well, and establish a declutter day in your home. Have each member of your family take on a different room (or rooms depending on the size of your family). Then, each room is decluttered weekly. Declutter each room by gathering three boxes: one for trash, one for stuff to give away, and one of stuff that belongs in another room. Then, start with the door and work clockwise around the room, picking everything up and putting it away or in one of the boxes. With everyone helping, your clutter should disappear throughout the house within an hour. In a small space, help with clutter comes from making furniture do double duty. Place shelving on top of flat surfaces that are not used, like dressers, short but sturdy book shelves, buffets, sideboards, and end tables. Display knickknacks on top of your entertainment center rather than adding another piece of furniture. Get magazine racks that attach to the side of your sofa or chair. Get a coffee table or end table with drawers or cabinets within to store items. When putting things away, always stack from largest to smallest, and categorize everything. Organize your books by genre or author. Organize your movies by actor, genre, or rating. But make sure you stick to largest to smallest with everything! Disorganization is another cause of clutter. If you don’t have places to put the things that you do need to keep around, those things will become clutter. The best help with this type of clutter is to purchase, build, or find new methods of storing or displaying your things. This can be in the form of book shelves, knickknack shelves hung on the walls, Rubbermaid containers stacked neatly in the corner of a little used room, drawer systems, and end tables. Once you have a place for everything in the house, you will discover that your clutter melts away as if it were never there. |
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