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Cleaning, decluttering, and other tidy tips
There’s a difference between tidying your home (i.e. cleaning) and decluttering.
You’ll always have dirty dishes, clothes to fold, and a toilet to clean even after you declutter. What’s the best way to cut through the mess and keep it clean? Use our 10-minute tidying tips and tricks. It’s all you’re going to need!
Ready to start decluttering? Read on!
Guides to help you get started:
Some tips on getting through the process:
If you’re just starting, here’s the Marie Kondo process:
Make a clothes mountain out of all your clothes (shoes too)
Then go through one-by-one. Does it give you that spark?
Thank the pieces you choose to discard.
Organize your trimmed down wardrobe by color, length, and weight of material
Other ideas to keep your wardrobe tidy:
Try a capsule wardrobe
Marie Kondo says:
Make a book mountain (put all your books into a pile)
Go through one by one. Does it give you that spark?
Thank the items you choose to discard.
Organize your collection of books by height.
Marie says she keeps about 30 books at a time.
Organize your papers into 3 categories:
Keep - items like birth certificates, passports, and other legal documents you absolutely must have.
To do - items that require your attention, like bills, invitations, and other items.
Discard - everything else.
What about other paper-like things?
Journals - tidy these with your sentimental items
Magazines - tidy with your books or with paper (or both)
The “everything else” category.
Bathroom stuff - toiletries, linens
Kitchen stuff - dishes, utensils, food
Bedroom stuff
Electronics
Furniture
Since this category has some unexciting stuff like plastic bags and tidying your spices:
The hardest category. Which is why it’s last. You’ve honed your tidying skills. You know what brings you joy.
Bring together all of your:
Photographs
Letters
Journals
Art
Take a walk down memory lane. Sift away those things that weigh you down and keep the ones that lighten your life.