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Simple, Clutter-Free Living
Specific rooms and areas to declutter throughout your home. Get the advice you need to declutter all your home’s spaces.
Is your bathroom messy? It could be as simple as clearing the bathroom clutter. Learn how to easily transform your bathroom into a calming place. Bathroom Clutter is Making Your Bathroom Messy I used to be the girl who kept everything on top of her bathroom counter that I needed to get ready every day. …
Encourage your kids to declutter toys before Christmas…Yes, they can even help you! Every single year, my kids and I declutter their toys before Christmas in one big clean-out month (usually November). We don’t usually have time throughout the year, nor are they very motivated. Maybe it’s shallow and privileged to say it, but if …
What if you only have cracks in your day, chronic pain, or no motivation but still want to declutter quickly? The answer may be easy 10-minute decluttering tasks, one of my favorite quick decluttering strategies. These are the time-saving decluttering ideas you do while dinner is cooking, when your little one is taking a bath, …
Yes, you can declutter your books. Before you say, “Nope, not doing it,” please stick around. It might not be as painful as you think! I love books. I cram them onto as many bookshelves as I can fit into my home. They are literally squeezed in on the shelves. No bookshelf decor for me. …
A 30-day clothes decluttering challenge may be the answer if you are wondering how to declutter too many clothes, and you aren’t sure where to start. It’s time to declutter your closets and clothes with this monthly decluttering challenge! Don’t forget to download the FREE 30 day clothes decluttering challenge PDF found at the bottom …
Do you ever wonder, “How do I make a room look less cluttered?” Use the flat surface clutter rule to declutter your kitchen counters, bathroom counters, floors and other flat surfaces in your home once and for all. Clutter-free surfaces will instantly transform the look of a room! The flat surface clutter rule was probably …
Do you need to declutter your phone apps? I didn’t think so, not at first anyway. Technology is fantastic. Technology allows us to carry around a phone, calculator, camera, and even a miniature-sized computer. One of my favorite things about my cell phone is the ability to use an app for just about everything. There’s …
Want to declutter your home but not sure where to start? Start with the “dumping ground”. What’s the dumping ground you ask? The dumping ground is that place where you quite literally dump all the stuff when you come home or put the stuff that has no assigned place elsewhere in the house. Chances are, …
Can five minutes really make a difference when decluttering? When you first start out decluttering, it can be extremely overwhelming. Even starting small, with just one drawer, or with just one corner of a room can seem daunting. If you are fighting disability, anxiety, depression, or raising toddlers, even ten minutes of decluttering can seem …
When your house is a cluttered mess, it can be overwhelming knowing where to start clearing clutter in your home. My guess is, you have a messy bedroom too. I know I did! Declutter your bedroom first Your bedroom is your place to relax and let go of stress. It is where you can disconnect …
Lent is a time of reflection and often a time of giving up something as we approach Easter every year. Lent is 40 days long, and it begins on Ash Wednesday. Use this guide for 40 items you can declutter during Lent from your home and from your life. This post contains affiliate links for …
Declutter My Home Challenge – A FREE 5-Day Decluttering Challenge to Clean Your Home! Get ready for the Declutter My Home Challenge, a decluttering challenge that will help you see easy results in just five short days. You can start this challenge at any time!!!! Are you sick of cleaning up all the time? Or …
For the longest time, I had NO idea how to create a minimalist bathroom. Curling irons, hair straighteners, unused hair products, multiple lotion bottles, half-empty toothpaste tubes, etc. Does this represent a possible inventory of your bathroom counter? Let’s not even talk about what may be hiding under the bathroom sink! You can create a …
If you are thinking, “I need to clean out my closet,” but you have no idea where to start, check out these tried and proven methods to clean out your closet. There is no right or wrong way. I have tried a few of these methods in my simplifying journey and every time I had …
I make a decision to declutter socks every time I end up with twenty random socks, none with a match. How does this happen?! Often times it’s my kids’ socks. It can be my socks too. We had no system and WAY too many socks. Today is day 1 of our monthly decluttering challenge, and …
The dreaded junk drawer. It’s where we put all the crap we can’t find a place for otherwise. It is the collector of stuff, stuff we hope to hide away and maybe use again one day. Admit it. You have a junk drawer, or maybe a junk closet, or a junk counter, or maybe even …
Want to declutter your house this summer? Yeah, me neither. 😊 I don’t know about you, but summer makes me think of picnics, grilling out, time at the pool, and late nights with family and friends. Summer does not make me want to clean my house (especially since I live somewhere without air conditioning!) …
Not sure how to save your child’s artwork? Been there, done that. Actually, I’m still fighting that battle on a weekly basis, but I have discovered some really cool digital apps and other hacks along the way that helped me figure out how to save my kids’ artwork without completely getting rid of the memories …
I never knew I wanted a minimalist pantry. It kind of stuck up on me, when all I could think was, “Girl, you really need to organize your pantry! This is a mess!” Do you feel like you always need to organize your kitchen pantry or that it’s never big enough or never neat enough? …
Declutter your kitchen and breathe easy when it is time to make dinner, rather than stress from having to clean your kitchen before you can even make a meal for your family! I’ve been there mama. There was a time when I had to first clean my kitchen before I could cook in my kitchen. …
Looking for where to donate used books? Here are some ideas to help you find a new home for your books where you know they will get used and appreciated. It can be tough wanting to get rid of books. However, knowing they will end up in the hands of people who need them makes …
Kitchen counter organization used to make me squirm and dread the task ahead of me. My kitchen counters used to be so covered in the clutter that I barely had room to put a cutting board on the countertop to prep dinner. I would have to shuffle paper piles from one spot to another, move …
The mail and the ensuing mail organization. It is a task I absolutely despised at one time. (Not gonna lie, I still don’t enjoy it.) I would go to work all day, processing medical claims and mail for other people, and then I would come home to continue processing it for my family. I always …
There are toys everywhere. Little knick-knacks, plastic junk from kid events, parties, and fast food meals, and stuffed animals and tiny cars sprawled across the floor. There are toy storage containers, but they don’t hold everything. There is not one piece of floor space that is not being used. It sounds awful and for many, …
