3 Smart Tips to Declutter Any Room

Looking for decluttering tips to help you manage clutter in your home?

Are you looking for a few smart ways to distinguish clutter from your everyday belongings?

We often tend to think of clutter as small bits and pieces of paper or miscellaneous items.

However, clutter can also take the form of large, and rather obvious items.

In fact, we can sometimes have large items of clutter sitting in a room and not even realize we are living in a cluttered environment!

In this post, you’ll find three smart tips to help you declutter almost any type of room.

The tips that follow are general in nature and can be applied to pretty much any room of the home.

Hopefully, these tips will give you some food for thought when it comes to removing unwanted or unnecessary items in your living space.

Remove items THAT belong in OTHER roomS.

Items should be stored in the area of the home in which they are most suited.

A frying pan would be more at home in the kitchen rather than the living room and a collection of work receipts would be better off in a home office filing cabinet.

Of course, things don’t always go as planned.

You may have temporarily placed an item on a countertop, table, or near a piece of furniture.

Perhaps you were inadvertently distracted or interrupted in the process; you answered the door or telephone.

Regardless of how items ended up in a room, it is rather easy to put things back in order.

All you have to do is take a look around any room of your home and evaluate the contents.

Do the contents of the room accurately reflect the room’s function? Do any items look conspicuously out-of-place?

Which items are stored in the wrong area or location?

After you do this, it’s just a matter of putting things back where they belong.

recycle, donate, or trash ITEMS.

A simple way to declutter any room is to take care of those items which have been clearly marked as recycling or trash.

Some may view this act as tidying or cleaning up a room, but another way to view this is as the final completion of a previous organization or decluttering project.

Here’s a quick example for you: you may spent the last few weeks decluttering your bedroom closet.

You packed items into garbage bags and planned to drop off clothes at the local donation center.

Yet for some reason or another, you were unable to complete the task at that very moment.

If you haven’t yet guessed, now is a great time to finally take care of that, and any other previously postponed tasks.

What types of previously packaged and ready-to-go items do you have in your home?

These packages can take almost shape and form: magazines and newspapers bundled up in twine and ready for recycling or a gift bag or care package for a close friend or a neighbor.

How about a shopping bag or two of books to be donated to your local library or defunct and dismantled electronics that have been prepared for recycling?

Remove and return items that don’t belong to you.

Another way to declutter items from your home is to return items to their rightful owners.

You may be surprised at what you currently have sitting in your home that’s taking up valuable storage and living space.

You may have recently borrowed a couple of folding chairs from a friend or a wrench from a neighbor.

Not only will you return items to their rightful owners, you’ll have fewer items taking up space in your home.

It’s worth setting aside a few minutes to take inventory of any and all borrowed items in your home.

You may already have a mini list of items already in your head.

Or you may want to start from scratch and work your way through each room of the home, focusing on one area at a time.

For example, you may start in your kitchen and discover a glass casserole dish that belongs to your neighbor.

Or, you may start in your master bedroom closet find a dress and belt borrowed from your best friend.

This tip also applies to any items you may have been holding on to for a friend or family member.

What if you’re tired of staring at that giant orange vase of your cousin’s in your living room or that collection of your brother’s vinyl records in your den?

Make the necessary arrangements to return the item(s) in question to their owner.

How about you? Which items are you going to declutter? Join the conversation and leave a comment below!

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Rashelle

Rashelle Isip is a New York City-based productivity consultant who helps successful entrepreneurs and business owners manage their time and energy so they can reduce stress, work less, and make more money in their businesses. She has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, NBC News, The Washington Post, NPR, and The Atlantic. Get her free guide, 5 Unexpected Things You Need to Organize a Work Notebook, by clicking here.

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