Combat Clutter

When I walk into someone's house and it is filled with clutter I get anxious, mostly because I want to organize it and make it look nice. As far as I'm concerned, nobody likes clutter. There are so many tricks and tips to getting rid of clutter, but really, all you have to do is follow through and not allow messy build up in your home.

Take a gander around your home and notice all of the clutter, whether it is piles of papers, mail buildup, or junk drawers. Think about your habits with regards to why this clutter exists. Are you too lazy to put something in its proper spot? Do you enjoy looking at a mountain of unpaid bills? Why do you allow clutter to occur? That's your first step to addressing the clutter in your home. Now it's time to get rid of it once and for all!



Utilize your shelves, drawers, cupboards, and other built in spots in your home to help you stay organized. If you need more places to put things, turn to file cabinets, stackable file trays, buckets, bins, tubs, stackable drawers, more shelves, and other organizational systems designed to keep you in order. These ideas will help you find a permanent place for your things, but you must change your way of thinking in order to make it work for good.

An important thing to note here is that just because you get excited and implement a new storage or organizational system doesn't magically mean that you are now organized. Staying organized requires time, patience and follow through. To really, truly eliminate clutter from your home you actually need to follow through and put things away instead of throwing them in a pile somewhere. It is much more easy to just pile up your papers, mail and magazines than to take the time to put each thing where it belongs; however, taking the time to be more organized is a vital step towards leading a more organized life.