My prescription? Watch
Clean House. I love that show!
It will:
1. Instantly make you feel better. The houses they clean are funky bad, so your little bit of clutter will seem much smaller. I know, I know, it's a cheap thrill, but it works. lol
2. Help you realize that stuff is just that, stuff. People hang on to items for so many of the wrong reasons. You will see the difference made by these folks getting rid of some clutter and doing a bit of organizing.
DH and I have no clutter, thanks to mulitiple global moves (you get sick of packing and unpacking things you haven't used since the last move) and Clean House. I love that show. Totally motivating!
Just recently DH and I did a once over of the house. We do this at the begining of each season. Things that helped:
1. Do the sorting, organizing and cleaning together. It's much more motivating. Aside from that, a partner will help talk you out of a stupid decision to keep something you haven't used or don't need ( I speak from experience there. Thanks, hubby).
2. Sort your items into piles: Trash, Donate, Needs a Place to Be Stored. Then go from there. We found a charity to come pick up all of our stuff: furniture, clothes, housewares, etc. It's also a tax write-off.
3. Make sure you have a home for everything. If an item doesn't have a home, it goes from the living room, to the den to the kitchen table, then back to the den, etc.
4. Invest in some good storage items. Target, Ikea, Bed Bath and Beyond and the Container Store are good places to look.
5. Be picky about the things you bring into the house. A/k/a The birth of clutter.
Once all the big clutter is sorted out, the rest of the house is much easier to take care of. Good luck in your clutter battles.
