25 Simple Ways to Cut Clutter Right Now
The following is a guest post from regular contributor, Morgan from Morganize with Me.
Clutter is a real part of our lives, and in many ways unavoidable. But I’ve got some good news for you! You can take these 25 simple ways to cut some of the clutter in your home and life immediately.
25 Simple Ways to Cut Clutter Now:
- Start saying no to free product samples.
- Stop taking brochures, menus, flyers, cards, etc.
- Start deleting apps, messages, texts, and/or contacts you no longer need.
- Stop storing music or movies you don’t listen to or watch anymore.
- Start clearing the clutter from your car, every single time you get home.
Stop keeping expired foods, beauty products, and medicines. - Start tossing receipts as soon as possible.
- Stop hanging on to outdated and unused electronics (and cords, covers, accessories).
- Start using your gift cards immediately and entirely.
- Stop buying a new spice for every new recipe, streamline your spices.
- Start looking for ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, there are opportunities everywhere.
- Stop holding on to clothes you might wear “someday” – TODAY is your someday.
- Start placing reusable shopping bags in your car and commit to only using reusable.
- Stop safekeeping your unmatched items – this can be anything!
- Start buying more books electronically and/or checking them out from your library.
- Stop signing up for newsletters and emails that don’t bring you value.
- Start deleting photos often, only keep your favorites.
- Stop saying yes when you mean no.
- Start giving yourself more margin in your schedule.
- Stop buying more tools, keep a stocked spot with all of your essentials.
- Start tossing anything that is worn out, stained, or faded.
- Stop believing you need to hold on to gifts, gifts you don’t want and/or need.
- Start ditching things that you have in multiples, only keep what you actually use.
- Stop decorating with decor or items you don’t love.
- Start cancelling services you no longer use or benefit from.
When you get back to the basics and focus on starting to do the things that help you to eliminate clutter and stop doing the things that contribute to your clutter, you will continue to move forward on a more clutter-free path!
Which start will you start? Or which stop will you stop?
Happy Organizing!
Morgan is the energetic and motivated, but also realistic girl, behind Morganize with Me. She is a list lover, fitness fan, and chaos controller! Her mission is to share tried and true techniques that she hopes will encourage her readers and clients as they focus on their health and homes. Join one of her Challenges and be sure to check out her Shop full of fabulous organizing printables!
These are excellent tips! Makeup is my nemesis (well one, anyway!) ; I start to clean out my makeup drawer and find all kinds of things I really like, but had forgotten about. So very little gets tossed because I always think I’ll start using it all again. Receipts are also a problem, my purse is filled with them. Those are easy to toss, but I just need to do it more often!
While you are dumping photographs you must back up your favourites. Print out a few as well. Send some to family members. I’m afraid that this generation will one day be without photographs, having lost the digital ones in a crash.
Yes! I agree 100% it’s very important to back up anything you want to keep, great reminder!
Thanks for all of these great tips. I just started tossing receipts this month; when I balance my checkbook, I finally throw away the receipts! I’m cleaning my closet this week, so I’ll need to remember to get rid of things I think I’ll wear someday, although it will be hard.
It will be hard, but I know you can do it!!!
Such good tips! Saying no to free samples has made a huge difference in slowing the flow of junk that enters our house.
Free samples are not really free, they end up costing us time and energy. Good job!