![]() Questions to Ask Yourself When You Declutter: Soon you’ll move to kitchen cabinets, bathroom cabinets, closets, and more. Look at the rooms below: Kitchen, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Office. Think about your home in areas and pick a few things that you can do that will make a big impact on how your house looks and how you feel. Once you’ve set a base habit for decluttering, you will move into the rest of your home.ĭecluttering your home can feel overwhelming, so it’s important to break it down into areas. Starting with a challenge, set up for a specific amount of days (like our 30-day declutter challenge) is a great place to start. How do you start decluttering? Use this challenge. You will soon feel peaceful, at ease, happy, and relaxed. You are not alone and today you are taking the step to change it. When you walk into your house, how do you feel? When you wake up in the morning and look around your room or walk into your kitchen, how do you feel? If the answer sounds like “overwhelmed,” “stressed,” “nervous,” or “frustrated,” this challenge is for you. I think it was “sweeping the kitchen everyday.” In the Build Your Own version, I have only included making the bed, running the dishwasher before bed, and emptying the dishwasher first thing in the morning.įor me, those three things were the foundation-habits I needed to begin working toward having an orderly home.How to Start Decluttering When Overwhelmed When that one started to feel natural and within my control, I added another. The house was a disaster and there were SO MANY things that needed to be done, I had to focus on one to keep from getting overwhelmed. When I began this journey, I only focused on one thing. I’m linking to both, but if I were to give advice (if you read regularly you know I try to avoid giving advice), I would tell you to print the one with all the blanks. But I know that since I’m all about excuses, having one to print out “just for now” would help me, since waiting-until-I-have-the-time-to-do-it-right is often one of my downfalls. They are just tables I made in Google Docs. Mine that I currently use, and one that has only a few things on it, and mostly blank spaces. I’m linking to two versions of my checklist. For me, it’s a way to train myself to see clutter before it gets out of hand. I also have “check bathrooms for clutter.” For someone who naturally puts clothes in the hamper and hairbrushes back in the drawer, this probably seems strange. It’s my problem, so I needed it on the list. I doubt this is a universal-slob-problem. ![]() I mean that many of the things on it are my own personal issues.įor example, I have “close cabinet doors” on the list. The reason is that it’s MY daily checklist. ![]() I’ve been a little hesitant to do this in the past. So, I’m sharing my checklist in printable form. If I get through them all, the house looks better, I feel better, and I have hope to keep working on this process. If I find that things are slipping, if I start to feel out of control, I can grab my checklist and physically mark it off as I do my tasks. ![]() I can’t count the number of times in my life that I’ve madly cleaned before a party, loved the way my home looked, told myself “I should really keep it this way,” and then looked up three weeks later to suddenly see the huge mess back again. It just never occurred to me to do it before it got to the point where an entire day of work was needed just to make a dent. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what needed to be done. ![]() It’s a chart of the things that seem effortless to normal people, but somehow baffled me. In the deslobification process I’ve been going through this past year, it’s been my very best friend.īasically, it’s a list of the habits I’ve been working to develop in an effort to transform my home. ![]()
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