You don't know how it happened, but it happened. One day your good friend visits your home and points out that you are in a big pool of clutter at home. You feel embarrassed. You also realize that, off late you have been spending more time on searching things. You don't know where you kept or you remember where you kept but it is not there when you are looking for it.
You are in a big mess and you need to definitely come out of this. Piles of old magazines, papers, junks stuffed everywhere and you have not touched them for ages now you do not even know where they came from. It does not matter where it came from, but you should know where it should go, how it should go.
Do not spend too much time on planning how to clear your clutter, just decide and that's it.
Keep aside your procrastination attitude, and just jump into your clutter terminating activity. Allocate two or three days continuous days so that you can do it at a stretch and finish it off.
Do not get distracted or interrupted, keep aside all your distractions, phone calls, favorite television program and everything. Please some good music at the back ground which can act as a motivational factor for your activity.
Pickup one room which to your opinion is cluttered the most. Start from one corner of that room and once that is completed to the next corner.
Take some tough decision on every item you pickup. Every item you pickup check if they are used in the last 1 year or so. If they are used are they going to be used in future? If yes then you just wipe the dust off and retain in the place where you picked up from.
If the item is not something which you used in the last 1 year, you need to see if that can be gifted, donated or thrown away. Your decision should be quick, do not keep debating mentally on this, and compromising it may be useful sometime in future.
Just work fast, show some internal urgency and it is simple. Think your best friend is visiting your house tomorrow and your house need to be clean and tidy.
Group up all the similar things together. You will see that the items are left around in different places. If you are organizing a bedroom, see to it your cosmetic items are together, inside the cloth closet things are together. Grouping similar things and keeping itself is one of the best ways in organizing things.
Give breaks when you are doing this activity. After few hours you will feel tired but never wind up, instead take a break, relax yourself and come back to continue. If you lose the momentum by doing it after few days, you will never be able to complete this task.
Once you have completed the entire organizing activity, take photograph of the entire room, and paste it behind the door of the room. Regularly observe whether the room is getting cluttered again. Do a monthly check comparing to the photograph with you had taken, if the room is in the same condition as the photograph looks, if not it is time for de-cluttering.
Madhan is a Clutter Management expert. For more great information on tips on decluttering, visit http://www.clearyourclutters.com.
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