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The Quickest Way To Declutter Your Home

January 11, 2022 By Christine Field

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Decluttering is a process that loads of us both love and hate. We love the feeling after decluttering; it’s amazing seeing how spacious and clean your home feels. Nevertheless, we can’t deny that the act of decluttering is a massive pain. It requires a good deal of effort, but it’s the time it takes that can be the most painful part. 

 

Sometimes, you can spend an entire week or more decluttering your home, slowly losing sanity with every passing day. But, what if you were told it doesn’t have to be like this? There are ways you can declutter your home in just a day or two, leaving it lovely and clean once more. 

 

How can you do this?

 

Well, here are some tips to make decluttering a breeze:

 

Go through one room at a time

Decluttering is easier and faster when you have a routine and schedule sorted out. Begin by tackling one room at a time. Don’t try to declutter your entire home all in one go as it will become a jumble of mess that takes ages to sort out. Start with the living room, declutter that, then move to the kitchen, and so on. Focusing on one room at a time will help you work more efficiently and productively. 

 

Get help from your kids

Two or three sets of hands are always better than one. Get your kids to help with the decluttering by leaving them in charge of their rooms. They have to sort through everything and decide what to keep or throw away. The chances are you will still find some clutter to remove when you go in there, but they’ve done part of the job already. Just like that, they’ve made the whole process quicker for you to deal with. 

 

Be extremely ruthless

One of the reasons decluttering takes so long is that you can’t decide what to do with something. Well, you need to be ruthless. Look at an item and question when you are likely to use it – and when was the last time you actually used it. We have a tendency to hold onto things that we simply never use, just in case we might need them. If you haven’t used something in the last six months, you probably won’t ever use it. If you’ve gone a whole year without using it, then it’s clear you don’t actually need it and it can be thrown out. 

 

The same goes for clothes – when was the last time you wore something? If you haven’t worn it for a long time, you should get rid of it as it is just taking up space in your closet. 

 

Rent a dumpster

Another reason that decluttering takes a lot of time is that you waste many hours disposing of your clutter. Once you’ve gathered up a load of stuff that can’t be used again, you have to throw it away. Usually, this means navigating to your nearest waste disposal site. For some, this can mean you spend up to half an hour in the car there and back. So, that’s an hour spent removing rubbish from your home – and you can only fit a car full in at a time. Instead, using a dumpster rental service will let you dispose of your clutter outside your home. Fill it up with all your junk, then it gets taken away for you. Think of how much time this spends on trips to the dump and back! 

 

Donate to charity

Renting a dumpster is extremely helpful when you have clutter that’s no good for anyone anymore. But, what about some of the things that you may no longer need, but they could serve a purpose in another home? Throwing these items in the trash would be a stupid and wasteful idea. One possibility is that you list the items on eBay, but then you have to keep hold of them until they’re sold, meaning you can’t truly declutter your home for weeks. Another alternative is to donate them to thrift shops. You can donate boxes of things to different thrift shops in your area, off handing your clutter and giving it a chance to go to a good home. Plus, you have the added benefit of knowing that your donations often help contribute to a charity. 

 

Yes, it is possible to declutter your home in as little as a day. It’s all about having a schedule, getting some helping hands, being ruthless, and having fast ways of removing clutter from your property.

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