How to Actually Declutter on a Crazy Busy Schedule

We all want a tidy home, right? When you step through the door coming home from work, you don’t want to be met by piles with stuff everywhere. You dream of that oasis of peace and order a tidy home can give and where you can breathe and relax.

But you are crazy busy too, with family, your kids, activities (those of your kids and your own), cooking, cleaning, running errands. You name it. You want to spend time with your spouse and your friends too. It’s all important, right?

How are you going to find time to declutter your home as well? There are ways, believe me. I’m going to help you out here.

Declutter on the go

One method of getting your home in shape is decluttering on the go. I mean, when you clean the kitchen for instance. Take the time to go through all those mugs. Is the handle broken off? Just get rid of it. Do you have a lot of mugs that you don’t even use? You generally use the same one, maybe two mugs anyway, right? As do your family members. Get rid of the rest.

Same with reorganizing your kitchen cupboards. Look at what you actually use. Are there things you rarely or never use even, take them out while you’re at it and put them in the donate box.

If you take a little more time, like 5 to 10 minutes to just go through your items like this while cleaning and handling them anyway, you can declutter a whole lot. Side-effect: next time you are cleaning that area, it will go much quicker because there are fewer items to clean. Win-win, right?

Plan for it

Decluttering on the go can take a long time before you have gone through your whole house. Sometimes you want to make bigger progress, faster.

The only way to get results faster is to plan or schedule it. You simply need to take the time and schedule it into your already busy life. I’m sorry but that’s just the way it is.

Get it onto your schedule

“How do I do that?” you ask? Well, first of all, you can set yourself that goal of a decluttered home. And don’t forget that oh-so-important time-frame.

Secondly, you need to fit it into your schedule, into your own routine. What I mean with that is that you need to carve out time to do the work. You need to prioritize decluttering over something else. You need to make choices. What can you drop from your schedule or routine to make room for a few hours of decluttering?

For example, you like to sleep in on the weekends. Why not rise and shine in the weekend at the same time you wake up during the week. You can easily win a few hours, right?

Or if you are a night owl, stay up a bit longer and tackle an area in the late hours. Or skip watching Netflix for a few nights a week and put in the time to declutter an area or two.

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The importance of scheduling

All I want to say is, that you have to make time for a project like decluttering your home. You need to plan it, you need to put it on your schedule. Otherwise, it will never get done. Or you start and get overwhelmed which leads to frustration and quitting altogether.

So make a plan, then break it down into doable steps and get to it. You can do it alone or make it into a family activity. Especially when there are areas where there is stuff from the whole family.

Mission accomplished?

It is also important to celebrate the little wins. You cannot declutter your whole house in just a few hours. It takes time. But if you are going to wait to celebrate a decluttered home until it is all finished, you lose your enthusiasm, believe me. So to keep you excited about decluttering, you need to pat yourself on the back from time to time. Reward yourself with your favorite beverage or an episode of that series you like to watch.

And by the end, if your home is truly an oasis of peace and quiet, celebrate big time! Enjoy and relax, you’ve earned it!

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