Conquering the clutter in your life can take some time, but you can do
it! Using a kitchen timer, spend fifteen minutes a day in each room of
your house. Do you regular cleaning first, and then use the extra 5 or
10 minutes to declutter something in that room. Hearing the ticking of
the clock can be a great motivator! It is almost like playing a game of
beat the clock, and it may help you move faster than normal. Before you
know it, you’re house will not only be clean everyday, but rid of
clutter as well!
A Room A Weekend Method
Using the Fifteen A Day method usually doesn’t work well in cases of
extreme clutter. If walking through your house feels like competing in an
obstacle course race, you are probably dealing with a case of extreme
clutter. It may only be one room of your house, the one that grew from a
junk drawer into a junk room, or perhaps it is your basement or garage.
In any case, large amounts of clutter should be dealt with at one time.
Set aside 2 or 3 days that you can totally devote to decluttering a
room. The best way to go through this type of clutter is to get a bunch of
boxes, pack the entire contents of the room into them, and completely
remove all of the items from the specific room that you are
decluttering. This allows you to go through every item that has been cluttering
that space.
Having the entire room cleared out also allows you the opportunity to
paint, or even just give it a through cleaning. It is the perfect time
to shampoo the carpets as well. Take the time to clean the room, and
when you return the items that you are keeping to the space, do it in an
organized fashion. When you are finished, and you look into the room and
see a beautiful, clean and organized space, it will give you the
incentive that you need to keep it clean, and start decluttering other rooms
of your home.