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What is Decluttering?
What is decluttering? At this point in the Declutter Your Home series, we need to get a good understanding about what decluttering is, what it involves, and what will be expected of you and your family members when you declutter. What does decluttering mean? Decluttering is the act of gathering all of the items in a specific area or category and eliminating the excess. Decluttered items may be disposed of by selling them, giving them away, or throwing them away. Essentially, decluttering is getting rid of the unneeded stuff! Technically, that defines the act of decluttering rather well. But what does it really mean to declutter your home or declutter…
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Declutter Your Home
Welcome to the Declutter Your Home guide, where we show you step by step directions to declutter each and every area of your house! I specially crafted this very thorough decluttering guide to teach you how to simplify your life by getting rid of all the extra stuff you really don’t need. And it won’t be stuff I decide you don’t need, which is where I find that a lot of advice and information about decluttering and minimalism go wrong. My list of essentials and things my family needs and uses will never exactly match anyone else’s! With the Home Ever After decluttering method, you will decide what you want…
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Minimalist Move Day 68: The Mountain of Boxes of Papers
It’s Minimalist Move day 68, and I’m on to the enormous step of digitizing paper. The one thing that lasted through all of our previous trash / give away / donate rounds during the minimalist move is the mountain of boxes of papers. Tax records, receipts, kids’ artwork, scrapbook mementos, prize ribbons from the state fair… you get the idea. I gathered up all the paper and put it in banker boxes, neatly stacked into a mountain in my office for this fine photo: It may not look like much in the photo, but keep in mind that there is over 300 pounds worth of just paper in these boxes,…
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Minimalist Move Day 66: Digging Deep For More Donations
Just when we thought there wasn’t anything left to declutter during our minimalist journey, we found we had to dig deep and pass along more stuff to our favorite charities and to the local reuse station. It’s amazing how fast one can fill up a minivan when there’s “practically nothing” left in the house! Here are some pictures of the van full before I left to donate it all. After the photos were taken, I filled up the vehicle even more!
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Minimalist Move Day 52: Happy Birthday to Me!
See if you can join me on a household purge on a huge scale (going minimalist) or a small scale (decluttering a bag of items for charity) or even a tiny scale (donate 1 item).
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Minimalist Move: I'm in Agony As I Separate Myself From Stuff
Getting rid of your stuff is hard. Being free of it is liberating, but getting rid of it is so painful, confusing, time consuming, difficult, and emotional that it can reduce a grown woman to a temper tantrum of sitting on the side of the bathtub, crying and praying in desperation.
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Minimalist Coolies (Teething Toys)
The minimalist purge continues, and I tackled the coolies (baby teething toys). Now only does my youngest show a very uncommitted interest in chewing on these, but we had so many you’d think she used them 24 hours a day! Before Minimalism Before the minimalist teething toy purge we had 16 coolies (only 14 are pictured because 2 were in the dishwasher). Several in the photo are duplicates of the same exact toy! During the Minimalist Process I pared it down to what I thought would be a smaller but functional selection of 6 coolies and, satisfied with the elimination of 10 unneeded teething toys, I took this photo: After…
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Minimalist Baby Bibs
We’re going minimalist, and there is a common misconception that babies ‘need so much stuff’. How many times have you heard (or said) that very phrase? It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and if you believe that babies need lots of gear, all the extra stuff will find its way into your house. Trust me, you’ll look around one day and wonder (if you haven’t already), “Where did all this baby stuff come from? Some of it has never been used…” You can , in fact, be minimalist with babies! Our minimalist switch has continued to every member of the family, and that includes the babies. We were supposed to have…
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Minimalist Move – Still Going Strong
I’ve found each day of decluttering during the last month to be challenging and liberating at the same time. I’m going through every single box, every drawer, even paperclips- I’ve decluttered paperclips.
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Clutter Busting: The One in, One Out Rule
Our decluttering help articles give you tips, motivation, and small places to begin on what may be a little clutter stash or a huge hoarding issue. Whatever your level of severity as a hoarder, we can help you declutter!
