Declutter First Before Organizing Your Home
Managing your home as a busy mom can become a headache, especially if house items are all over the place. The trick to keeping it all together even with chaos is to declutter first before organizing everything.
Do you feel getting rid of things becomes exhausting and emotionally taxing? Is clutter stressing you out?
How do you feel about addressing the home clutter before even dipping into the organizing part?
When you set a goal to organize your home, your brain instantly zones in on every nook and crannies. You also envision a space with much purpose and calmness after every organization project.
Have you ever done a home organization project and had to stop because unnecessary items are lying around? A pile of old notebooks, unworn clothes in your closet, or even double items in your kitchen?
What happens then? You hit the breaks before you can even begin?
That’s what I’m talking about here—the importance of decluttering your home before delving into any organizing effort.
Next, you’ll find out why you even declutter beforehand as part of your homemaking.
6 Reasons to declutter before organizing your home:
You’re only keeping what you need.
This effort is the purging time to sort and choose helpful things around the house and what’s needed. Reducing the clutter will help you see what organizing you need to do around the house.
If you tackle organizing first, you will end up with the same amount of things to manage and not take anything away that’s not being used or needed.
Do these quick declutter compartments at home: FIVE CONTAINERS (Label the #2-5 boxes)
- TRASH – for items to throw away. Bye-bye things!
- DONATE – to give to charity, home shelter, etc.
- SELL – for what it’s labeled for sale (garage or thrift stores)
- KEEP – items that are currently being used on a daily basis or even weekly
- STORAGE – used for seasonal items (downsized items like Christmas or Easter decors)
Your effort and time are cut down from home organizing or even cleaning too.
You spend less time organizing when your home is decluttered first. Why is that? Fewer things, less organizing to do. Hence, more time for other homemaking aspects.
The goal is not to use up all the time re-organizing or getting stuff around. When the home is decluttered, you acquire more time for what matters to you the most. You’ll be able to concentrate on the task at hand rather than being distracted by the clutter.
You are adding more organizing containers where you don’t need them.
Tackling decluttering ahead of time, you’ll be less likely to buy more containers to store more stuff. Likewise, cutting down on clutter in your home means no need to be shopping for more organizing storage and others. So now, no need to rehome extra unused items.
How you’ll save money from buying unnecessary purchases to store clutter in your home.
One thing is good, needing only the storage for valuable items and not just for hiding stuff. When the mess is taken care of, you may find plenty of empty bins from the recently decluttered storage.
You may even get money from the stuff you plan to sell. Decluttering your home doesn’t cost you money, and make sure you have a concrete plan.
You’ll open space when you declutter your home first before you can even begin organizing.
Having just a few things – you can manage space around, and less cleaning is needed; more home for those important things. Also, organizing will become easier when you have the proper space to do your projects.
You will appreciate the space that you’ll discover after your decluttering efforts. Then, when you have an empty room, you’ll have a clear vision of what you want that area to be.
You’ll have fewer items to clean, and you’ll gain some organizational inspiration seeing a cleared space in your home.
Pick a method that works for you.
When you decide to declutter – you may put it on your to-do list as a weekend thing, one room at a time, or even as a month-long endeavor. It may be a 15 minute daily declutter or 1 hour declutter time for the whole family.
You undoubtedly know what worked for you in the past, or you may jump into a new method you’d want to add to your decluttering routine. You’d be tweaking your decluttering process if a technique didn’t seem to work for you.
What’s the takeaway for the first declutter before organizing method?
Homemaking requires a system for your home – what works for you and your family. That includes your effort to declutter first at home.
When you know what you need, you can quickly downsize your home items. You also cut down the time allotted for organizing and cleaning your home.
Only having the necessary things; you’ll save money in the long run. With the space you’ve discovered after decluttering, you also find empty containers now that you can practically use for the important, valuable household items.
Then last, when on a decluttering spree, you’ll apply the system that worked for you or start incorporating new ways to achieve your homemaking goals. It’s a win-win situation for you.
Now, as a homemaker – decluttering first before organizing your home will be an ongoing process. The decluttering means you’ll have to deal with the amount of stuff in your home and readjust your organizing needs as time permits.
It’ll take time to get used to, especially if you haven’t put in place routines that genuinely help you keep your home decluttered and organized.
Don’t worry; everybody got to begin somewhere, right?
So what’s left to do? Start scheduling your declutter time to get the ball rolling.
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