If you find that your home is messier than you’d like it to be, you may want to consider decluttering. Now, we understand if this may not seem all too appealing, but it’s something that you have to do in order to make your home as clean as possible. To help make things easier for you, we thought it would be useful to put together a list of helpful tips. If this is something that you’re interested in learning more about, read on as we discuss five decluttering tips that you need to know about.

Toss Out the Trash

Before you organize an area, begin by tossing the trash. Look for any obviously empty or broken packaging and items. Remove these from the storage space to reduce excess volume. Also, look for coupons that have expired, envelopes that are empty and dry, and bottles without lids or caps. Once you’ve removed these items, the storage space will have less volume, which will help you move forward with the actual organization.

Get Rid of Non-Kitchen Items In Your Kitchen

Before you rearrange the stuff in your kitchen cabinets, get all the non-kitchen items out of the way. Put them in another room so they're out of the way and you can focus on the cabinets. Next, group the items into piles of what belongs in each room. For example, all the toys can go into one pile, and all the tools can go into another. Now that you have your piles, make the trips to other rooms to put each pile away. 

Move All Reading Material Out of Your Living Room

Magazines and newspapers end up scattered around the living room floor after you look for the TV remote. They tend to look more overwhelming and unpleasant than they actually are, and they are more difficult to read. Minimize the unpleasantness and clutter by squaring up papers and reading materials. A tidy pile of papers looks like it is supposed to be there, while an unkempt pile looks like you dropped it and never came back to clean it up.

Organize Your Bathroom

Overwhelmed by the clutter in the bathroom? Start clearing it out drawer by drawer (or shelf by shelf). If a product has been sitting unused for some time, then it probably isn’t a necessary item. And if a product is past its expiration date, it’s probably best to toss it rather than risk a nasty health scare. With less clutter in your bathroom, you can turn your bathroom into a more relaxing space.

Let Go of Unused Home Office Items

Home officers are notorious for harboring lots of clutter. I’ve seen it before. While this may seem rather tricky, it's easy if you adopt the right mindset. Just get rid of those things that you haven’t used in months or years. While you may think these things may come in handy down the line, the fact that you haven't been using them is indicative that you need to let them go. The longer you wait to fix it, the harder it becomes to actually do anything with the clutter in your home office.

Conclusion

We hope this article proves to be useful when it comes to helping you declutter your home. While it may seem tedious at first, the tips that we’ve laid out here should make things easier for you. Be sure to keep everything you’ve learned here in mind to make decluttering as stress-free as possible.

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