Like many people, I want to declutter my household. It’s just that I look around and oftentimes feel completely overwhelmed by the process. But, I’ve learned that if you break it down into easy and manageable steps, you can make progress a little at a time.
Here are ten tips, that can take no more than one minute each, to help you declutter your home.
1. walk through a room in the house and pick up as many things as you can to throw out in 60-seconds
2. walk around the house and put everything that should go up, or downstairs on the stairway, and the next time you have a minute, move them up, or down to where they belong.
3. spend 60 seconds putting things away – maybe something from step 2, or whatever is out.
4. make your bed – seriously it only takes a minute!
5. sort your mail – toss the junk right away before it stacks up.
6. pay a bill – write a check, make a phone or online payment
7. clear off a table – be it the coffee table, or your main dining table
8. spend a minute putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher
9. wipe an annoying spot on the wall, or sticky spot on the floor (okay, I admit that’s more cleaning than it is decluttering)
10. make a list of 10 other things you could do in a minute
If you are serious about keeping each step to a minute – it might help to invest in a digital timer. Once you’ve done any of these a couple of times, you’ll have a better idea of what you can accomplish in a minute. You will see a small dent then eventually a larger one, and your decluttering progress will be made a little at a time.
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