Declutter your home

Pretend that you’re moving

It’s a good idea to go through your belongings and determine what you use regularly; it is likely that you only use 20% of your “stuff” regularly. Set aside things that you can’t do without and see what’s left over. The best way to do this is to imagine the first impression someone will get from your home, clutter free spaces are inviting not too mention easier to clean. Then once you know what you want/need to keep, you can get some appropriate storage boxes and get sorted.

Consider your rooms

Go through the rooms in your house and ascertain its use and remove any items from the space that do not relate to the chosen activity. If a room has multiple uses then think of it as divided into separate areas so you’ll know exactly where everything belongs.

Clear up for charity

It’s much easier to be ruthless with your belongings if you’re doing it for a worthy cause and you can imagine someone benefiting from things you don’t need anymore. Pick a charity to donate to and find out if there are specific things they need, you could even try and get the kids involved.

Amend your rooms

Alice Winner an organizing consultant describes how she imagines her house to make the most of tidying. “The room is a book, a dresser is a chapter, each drawer is a paragraph, the boxes or trays in the drawers are the sentences, and the things inside the containers are the words”. She believes the best way to make things less complicated and more manageable in your life is to get rid of a few of those extra unnecessary “words”.

Get everyone involved and make it a team event

Get friends and family together and do one house one weekend and someone else’s the next. However, for arguments sake, make sure the owner of the item in question gets the final say. You’ll find this way much more efficient as your friends won’t have the same sentimental attachment to things as you do.

Go shopping in your wardrobe

When you’re hanging your laundry up try on an armful of clothes that you haven’t worn for a while and decide, honestly, if you still would. Be ruthless, set yourself strict guidelines, the things you keep must be in style and fit without any necessary alterations. Give or throw away anything that doesn’t meet these.

We hope you find these tips useful and a helpful push in the right direction. To keep yourself motivated pin up an image from a magazine of a room you feel inspired by and are aiming towards.

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