Girls… It is time to get ruthless!
This is 40 Ingenious Ways To De-Clutter Your Entire Life
1. When buying electronics, download the manual and store it in the cloud.
If you’re positive you won’t be returning it, you can safely discard the manual.
Uploading an electronic copy to the virtual cloud of your choice keeps you covered
in case the manufacturer stops producing the item and takes the manual down from its site.
2. Enlist the rule of five every time you clean
Whenever you’re cleaning a room, get rid of at least five items
whether it’s a piece of trash, an old magazine, or just something you haven’t used in ages.
3. Velcro your remotes to the side of the coffee table or your TV.
4. Hang your bags with shower curtain hooks.
The hooks take up less space than hangers.
And it’s a great way to compartmentalize the things in your closet that don’t have a place —
scarves, belts, socks.
5. Utilize your under-desk space.
It’s a great place to keep organized baskets.
6. Make the kids a stuffed animal pen with bungee cords.
They’re easier to find, easier to put away.
And your child gets a kick out of having a zoo-like pen for all the stuffed animals.
7. When cleaning the bedroom, always make the bed first.
There are a myriad of reasons.
1) It serves as a mission control center for organizing and folding,
2) you’ll be less likely to climb into bed and take a nap in the middle of your cleaning ses, and
3) your messy stuff will look weird and out of place once the bed is all neat.
8. On a super-hot day, clean out your fridge and freezer.
It’ll feel less like work and more like a treat.
9. Limit your closet to 40 hangers.
Or follow this flow chart.
You could also cut down your closet by 25% by asking yourself this one question:
“If I were shopping right this second, would I buy this?”
If the answer is no, out it goes.
Sometimes you need hard-and-fast rules to keep organized.
10. Corral cords with a sock.
11. Use compartmentalized boxes for small things you need to keep organized, like batteries.
12. Declutter your Facebook feed.
Tip #1: When you see pesty updates from Candy Crush or Spotify that you seriously could care less about
hover your mouse over the post and click “Hide all stories from”
Tip #2: Make friend lists. Only follow your close friends.
This also comes in handy later on when you want to post an event or news item that you only want your legit pals to see.
13. Fold your bedsheets up and stuff them in a matching pillowcase.
14. Employ the “Crap Basket” system for your family.
Everyone gets a crap basket.
If you see or collect anyone’s crap throughout the house, it goes in that person’s basket.
And then they’re responsible for putting it back into their rooms.
15. Hang your mail holder on the side of a table or kitchen counter.
It’ll keep the clutter off your precious visible surfaces.
16. Always open your mail next to the recycling bin so you can immediately purge unwanted junk mail.
17. Hang your lesser used cords on Command hooks on the inside of your cupboards.
Command hooks really are magical.
18. For the garage or backyard, hang a basket so you can wrap the hose around it
and keep the sprinkler inside the bucket.
19. Run a power strip through the back of a nightstand so you can charge your gadgets out of sight.
Most nightstands with drawers should have a gap in the back.
20. When you buy a new shirt, donate two from your closet.
Or just do the one-in one-out rule for ALL possessions.
ESPECIALLY if you’re a shopaholic.
21. Put your cosmetics into palettes.
You’ll feel so good after you do this. It’ll make getting ready so much faster, too.
22. Use a pegboard and zip ties underneath your desk to keep your wires neat.
23. Keep your discount cards virtually on your phone with the Key Ring app.
And if you don’t have a smartphone, hole-punching your discount and gift cards
and adding them to a single key ring can keep your purse organized.
24. Find ways to get rid of your old books.
Here’s some ideas:
Donate any children’s books that the kids have outgrown to a local library.
Give books away to family and friends you believe would enjoy them.
Sell your old textbooks for a little extra cash.
For cookbooks, only keep the ones with a large number of recipes you plan on making.
If there are only a couple useable recipes
photocopy them and keep them in a binder and give the cookbook away.
25. Keep your cleaning supplies in a mobile bucket caddy.
You (or anyone else) will be able to go room to room to clean very easily with this handy bucket.
26. Use hooks, not towel bars
They’re much more likely to keep your towels off the floor.
27. Wrap the cords around your unused appliances and secure with Velcro.
It’ll keep your spaces neater.
28. Get rid of your board game and puzzle boxes and keep them in bins instead.
29. Identify your clutter traps. Then divide and conquer.
Is there a certain place where everyone just dumps their stuff out of sheer laziness?
Is it the entryway? Under the kitchen sink? A junk drawer?
Identify each of the clutter traps and dedicate an hour each weekend to each one.
See if there’s an easy way to compartmentalize the stuff you really need
while throwing out the things you can bear to part with.
30. Limit your dish sets to two or three more than the required place settings.
This keeps your dishwasher from getting insane.
If you don’t have a dishwasher, household members will be more prone to actually doing the dishes
if there are none available to use and you have enough extra place settings for guests
31. Spread your minimalist lifestyle by only giving gifts that people can use.
Take a friend out to eat for their birthday.
Give a coupon for a free oil change as a Christmas gift.
A bottle of wine is always handy.
This cuts down on lame gifts and people will learn to reciprocate similarly.
32. Try a closet hanger experiment
Turn all your clothes hangers in the reverse direction.
After you wear an item, return it with the hanger facing the correct direction.
In three months, you’ll have a clearer picture of which clothes you wear and which ones you don’t.
33. Clean up your kitchen surface from charger wire.
Rid your kitchen surfaces of phone and tablet charger wires with this handy DIY charger station
Or build an on counter charging station from wood boards if your plug sockets happen to be on your backsplash.
34. Vertical space for fresh produce product.
FRESH PRODUCE doesn’t have to live in your standard fruit bowls.
You can place fruits, vegs or herbs in a tiered stand like this one
which can also be DIY-ed from baking tins and candles sticks!
or use recycled planters and attach them to the wall like this.
Neat idea huh?
35. Declutter space for cookbooks.
COOKBOOKS in the kitchen goes without saying
but they can really add to clutter if they don’t have a dedicated place to live.
Try containing them to one area using a box or a cute vintage basket like this one below.
Also, dont forget about that space above your fridge for cookbook storage!
36. Keep only the products you use daily in a small bathroom.
What hair and makeup products do you actually need to get ready each morning?
Which do you actually use when you shower?
If you're lacking in lots of bathroom storage, remove everything you only use occasionally —
special hair products, medicine, first aid — and consider finding another spot in your home to keep it.
37. Use three small pieces of wood to make your spices easy to see in your cabinet.
You can ask your hardware store to cut them for you.
Just make sure to push it to the back of the cabinet or at least secure the blocks together
so you don’t accidentally knock everything over!
38. Turn an empty plastic bottle and old CD or DVD into a wall-mounted plastic bag dispenser.
And keep it in your pantry or on the inside door of one of your kitchen cabinets.
Here’s how you do it:
First, Measure and marked the bottle for your bag opening and then Cut along the lines you made.
Then, cut the bottom of the bottle off at whatever height you want your container
and trim the ends with scissors to even them out if needed.
Next, heat the end with hot iron will gives a very nice rounded edge.
Next stop, Spray paint the bottle and the CD
put a piece of ribbon on the CD then attach your lid.
Finally, add two sided Command Strips to attach your holder to the wall
39. Stick magnet bars on the back of your metal medicine cabinet to hold small bathroom necessities.
You don’t have to cover them in fabric, but they do look pretty that way.
40. Turn three empty cereal boxes into a pretty letter sorter.
These are covered with wrapping paper, but you can use whatever kind of paper you like.
And… That’s all…
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