Understand your Clutter

So excited about this particular topic - Understand your Clutter!  Why do people constantly have to deal with clutter.  Messy office, rooms, closets, anywhere with space.

Einstein at his desk

If you are like me, an avid workaholic, you will know that we are always on the go, working, tackling multiple tasks, and no time for small things like tidying.  As a matter of fact, we do have our own systematical way of filing our documents one on top of another on various locations of our desk, shelves, and somehow, only we ourselves know where to find them.  If anyone bother to tidy up our space for us, we will go bonkers with madness as we will be at a lost, no clue where the documents are after the place is decluttered.

Bingo, welcome to the club!  After years of attempting to keep at least one room tidy, I have decided to just keep one room untidy just to satisfy my wild side!  This is how I do it.

A.  Conquer one room at a time.  Do not try to organize your room, just start grouping things in sections.  Get a couple of large rubbish bins, throw away anything that you do not use into one and things you want to give away or donate into another.  Pile things that are in between, want and not want, confused pile.  Sort out the items of must haves.

B.  Start moving things out of the room.  Schedule your donation check point and save the date.

C.  Must have pile will be filtered, how badly do you want them.  In terms of clothing, this is another topic that will be touched upon on my other blog.   Back to the stuff, and document section.  Most of the time, we keep 90% of the things we do not really need.  Close your eyes and get rid of them.  Be fierce, just do it!

D.  Remainder of the confused pile, if you are confused, get rid of them.

E.  You will probably have a small pile left in your room.  Organize them in a box, or container and take a break.  

F.  Clear out the furniture you do not use, move things around until you see white space on walls, and unblocked space in front of windows.  This will clean up the room visually and create space even if you have the same number of furniture in the room.

Take a deep breath and pat your shoulder for a good day's job.  Schedule your calender to conquer the next room.  Keep doing this until all rooms have been organized.  What you will discover after all this is that you are able to keep your rooms tidy without much effort going forward.

I did mention I keep one room sort of untidy to balance my desire to clutter at times.  This helps a lot in terms of keeping me sane.  It is like having an occasional piece of chocolate while dieting, LOL!

Happy De-Clutter Day!  Yes, I created this day for our readers.

Cheers!