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Five tips to get started on decluttering your home<\/b><\/p>\n

Moving house – or simply renovating – often goes hand in hand with a push to finally declutter all cupboards, wardrobes and drawers so the new home is off to a good start.<\/p>\n

From personal experience (the writer moved six times, between four cities and two countries, in the past three years) we can say that yes, most of us have a lot more stuff than they need and getting rid of it is harder than it initially feels.<\/p>\n

Diving into the decluttering head first, without planning at least a little ahead, often leads to disappointment rather than success – but since we’ve made our own experiences, here are a few tips on how to sort everything out and keep your new home clutter-free – or at least less cluttered. Nobody’s perfect, after all.<\/p>\n

Start early<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t leave it to the last minute – stressing about reducing the amount of things you have often only goes one of two possible ways: either you chuck out too much and end up regretting it dearly or you’re so cautious about it that nearly everything follows you into the new home.<\/p>\n

Starting early doesn’t just give you enough time to go over everything, it also means you’re covered in case anything suddenly takes up a lot of your time – and in case you finish early, there’s a deep satisfaction in that, too.<\/p>\n

Don’t spend too much time at once<\/strong><\/p>\n

This may sound weird, but rather than tackling it all at once, take five or ten minutes out of your day to get stuck in some of your clutter.<\/p>\n

One day, get rid of the things making one of your bookshelves look untidy; the next, take your desk (or half of your desk, in case it’s a bigger task), make sure that’s tidy and clutter free, and so on.<\/p>\n

Sure, it won’t make much of a dent to start with, but keep at it and the mountain of clutter will diminish slowly but surely.<\/p>\n

\"Don't<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t leave decluttering until your desk looks like this (or worse) – it’ll only make it harder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Get a grip on your paper<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s everywhere, and there’s so much of it that trying to get rid of clutter doesn’t start with what you already have – it starts the moment new paper comes in, most often through your letterbox.<\/p>\n

Don’t let the letters pile up: sort them the moment they reach you and don’t be afraid of chucking out the non-important stuff straight away.<\/p>\n

When sorting through your papers, use a similarly strict sorting system: bank statements, insurance policies and co can all stay, but do you really need the receipt for your five-year old iPod?<\/p>\n

Get to the back of your wardrobe<\/strong><\/p>\n

You probably won’t find a door to Narnia (if you do, please let us know), but it’s more than likely you’ll encounter what the Germans call<\/a> Schrankleiche (‘cupboard corpse’) – the things you never wore, or only wore a few times, before banning them to the back of your wardrobe.<\/p>\n

Get rid of them. No matter if you give them to charity or have a jumble sale, get them out of the house.<\/p>\n

You’ve not worn these for years – maybe because they don’t fit, are out of style or just because – and the chance of you missing those things is fairly slim, so don’t let them take up precious space.<\/p>\n

(This obviously doesn’t extend to pieces with an emotional value – wedding dresses\/suits and other emotionally laden pieces don’t count as clutter.)<\/p>\n

Overthink new purchases<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you really need ten pairs of black jeans or the 15th pair of heels you’ll only wear once?<\/p>\n

Saying no may be the hardest part – everything is so tempting, from going to an actual shop to browsing the internet and subsequently being spammed with ads showing you exactly that bag\/pair of shoes\/special edition of a book you just spent ten minutes longingly staring at.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say don’t buy new things, but be conscious about it – especially if it’s something a bit more unusual or occasion wear – to make sure your freshly decluttered wardrobe stays that way.<\/p>\n

The post Five tips to get started on decluttering your home<\/a> appeared first on Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stefanie Gerdes<\/p>\n

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