March 6, 2013
Spring Cleaning Month – De-Cluttering
Monday I introduced Spring Cleaning Month here on the blog and we started with a little de-cluttering. When tackling a cleaning project, I like to work a little de-cluttering in the mix. I find that without de-cluttering you are simply moving the stuff around to clean under it and that doesn’t take care of the clutter issue in the future. I like to simplify the steps for myself so I can break a de-cluttering project down into 15 minute intervals if needed. If you purchased my new ebook/guide, the first worksheet is this the ‘De-Clutter Before You Clean’ worksheet. Here’s a snippet from the worksheet:
Then move on to the floors and follow the same method of separating everything into 4 categories:
keep
toss/recycle
donate
sell
Once you have completed de-cluttering your surfaces and floors, it’s time to move on to your hot spots. (Hot spots are areas where clutter continues to occur.) Once you have de-cluttered your hot spot, come up with a solution to keep it from continuing to happen. For instance, if you always have a pile of keys on your counter, put a couple hooks on the wall to hang them on or put a cup on your counter to put the keys in.
After you’ve de-cluttered your surfaces, floors, and hot spots you can go to other areas in your home and continue to de-clutter those individual areas. Hopefully it’s fairly easy after covering the surfaces, floors, and hot spots. Once the de-cluttering is taken care of it’s time to start cleaning!
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Amber G. Says
Love it. Yesterday my 4 year hoarder daughter went thru her “hoarder drawers” and i made her clean them up. She did great. Today or tomorrow I’m hoping to go thru her toys and get rid of all those broke toys, mcdonalds toys, etc.
Angela Says
How do you convince a man to get rid of a chair, we have literally five rockers in this house and they aren’t getting utilised as well as I want them and I would like to get rid of it so I can create a kids art corner but he won’t do it. I want to get rid of it cause I think it would eliminate the “junk” spot in our living room.