How to Declutter and Organize Your Home
As the temperature drops and you spend more time indoors, it’s essential to make your home a comfortable, organized space for the winter. Decluttering your home can feel overwhelming, but with a plan in place, it becomes manageable. Start by determining whether you want to tackle the task in a day, weekend, or over several days, and then break it down room by room with a dedicated checklist for each area. If possible, enlist help to speed up the process. To make the task more enjoyable, play music and turn cleaning into a game for young children to keep them engaged.
The First Step in Decluttering Your Home
Start by going through each room and categorizing your belongings into four groups: keep, throw away, store, and donate. When sorting through all of your items, some of the things you want to ask yourself include:
- When was the last time I used this?
- Do I have duplicates of this item?
- Does this item hold sentimental value?
- Could someone else benefit from this item more than I can?
- Is this item useful or necessary?
- Can I repurpose this item to use it more?
After asking these questions, you’ll slowly start to see yourself getting rid of things you don’t need anymore.
Get a Storage Unit
Don’t feel like you have to get rid of everything causing clutter in your home; if you have belongings that you don’t want to get rid of but are also taking up a lot of space in your home, store them in a self storage unit. Self storage units come in plenty of sizes and can serve as your personal storage away from home that you can visit when you need to. Many people store bulky furniture, seasonal clothes, holiday decorations, family photos, and more in a storage unit to help reduce clutter in their homes.
Organizing Your Home
Now that you’re left with the only items needed for your home, it’s time to start organizing. A big reason that homes are often cluttered is that there’s not a designated space to put things. Take a look at the cabinets, shelves, and storage space you already have, and think about the ways you can organize and declutter. Utilize boxes, bins, and labels to help create a home for all of your belongings to live. Here are ways you can organize in specific rooms within your home:
Kitchen Organization
Clutter in the kitchen usually lives on the counters and in the pantry. To help declutter your kitchen, take advantage of the cabinets and drawers to stay organized. If you have limited space, use hooks and shelves to store things along the walls. In the pantry, go through all of your food, and organize them into groups such as boxes of pasta, canned goods, snacks, etc. This way, your pantry will be less overwhelming and you’ll be able to find what you need much easier.
Bedroom Organization
The main area of clutter in bedrooms is typically in closets and dressers. Organize your clothes by emptying your drawers, categorizing items, and organizing them back into your drawers. Take an extra step by using drawer organizers to help keep things in order. Repeat this process for your closet, and purchase shelves and shoe organizers for additional spaces.
In children’s rooms, use shelves and bins to help organize books and toys. To help keep children’s rooms decluttered in the future, rotate toys instead of having all of their toys out at once.
Bathroom Organization
A cluttered bathroom can truly put a damper on bath time. Similar to the other rooms in your home, you can declutter your bathroom by going through your cupboard and getting rid of expired medicines and toiletries you don’t use anymore. If your bathroom isn’t equipped with a lot of storage space, consider buying shelves and drawers to store additional items in.
Declutter and Store Your Belongings with Devon Self Storage
Create the cozy and clutter-free atmosphere you desire in your home by storing your additional belongings with Devon Self Storage. With storage unit sizes ranging from 5×5 to 10×30, you’ll have all the space you need to declutter and maximize the space in your home. Find a Devon Self Storage facility near you and start your decluttering today!