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Declutter Your Home - Understanding the Clutter Life Cycle For a Clutter Free Home
By
Jane Alais
Start to declutter your home by understanding the clutter life
cycle and how unwanted redundant stuff expands and multiplies until you
lose all sense of how much and what you own. There is a reason why your
home is filled with stuff you no longer remember buying much less using.
Here are some facts about the clutter life cycle that will motivate you
to clear your clutter sooner than later.
Clutter just grows and grows: I often hear, "I don't know how my garage/basement/bedroom filled up with so much stuff", but once you are in a clutter accumulating pattern it exponentially starts to multiply. Purchasing items that come with multiple parts, putting things in the garage so clutter is out of sight and out of mind, delaying decision making and never letting go adds up to huge amounts of clutter over time.
Stuff expands to fill the space: Beware buying extra storage as clutter expands to fill empty spaces. Until you make a turn around to declutter and set limits on what you own more shelves, boxes, cupboards and wardrobes can just mean a lot more stuff.
Too many things makes the good things disappear: The more things you have the harder it is to find the things you really love to look at and use. Your treasures get lost in the crowd and it becomes easy to forget what you really cherish and love.
Stuff sits where it lands: Shoes tossed in the middle of the hallway, clothes on the floor or on the back of chairs not only can sit there a long time but becomes a visual clue to pile up more stuff. Soon you have big piles of things to put away and an often overwhelming and time consuming task on your hands.
Over time things become invisible: Having too much makes it harder to find everything and locating things becomes a stressful time consuming task. When what you own becomes invisible you buy multiples of the same thing which starts to make your clutter very expensive.
If you want the extra space that comes from a clutter free home and the free time clutter free living can give you, think about what steps you can take to stop the clutter life cycle and start to declutter your home.
Clutter just grows and grows: I often hear, "I don't know how my garage/basement/bedroom filled up with so much stuff", but once you are in a clutter accumulating pattern it exponentially starts to multiply. Purchasing items that come with multiple parts, putting things in the garage so clutter is out of sight and out of mind, delaying decision making and never letting go adds up to huge amounts of clutter over time.
Stuff expands to fill the space: Beware buying extra storage as clutter expands to fill empty spaces. Until you make a turn around to declutter and set limits on what you own more shelves, boxes, cupboards and wardrobes can just mean a lot more stuff.
Too many things makes the good things disappear: The more things you have the harder it is to find the things you really love to look at and use. Your treasures get lost in the crowd and it becomes easy to forget what you really cherish and love.
Stuff sits where it lands: Shoes tossed in the middle of the hallway, clothes on the floor or on the back of chairs not only can sit there a long time but becomes a visual clue to pile up more stuff. Soon you have big piles of things to put away and an often overwhelming and time consuming task on your hands.
Over time things become invisible: Having too much makes it harder to find everything and locating things becomes a stressful time consuming task. When what you own becomes invisible you buy multiples of the same thing which starts to make your clutter very expensive.
If you want the extra space that comes from a clutter free home and the free time clutter free living can give you, think about what steps you can take to stop the clutter life cycle and start to declutter your home.
Would you like more information about how you can create more
space in your home and more time in your life. Click here to go to http://www.declutterbefree.com for your free report to create a clutter free home for clutter free living.
Jane Alais is a professional organizer, the creator of Declutter Befree.com and the author of Get Organized-Get Happy A Step by Step Guide to Clear Clutter and Organize Success. She writes about strategies and solutions to declutter, organize and energize your home and your life.
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http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jane_AlaisJane Alais is a professional organizer, the creator of Declutter Befree.com and the author of Get Organized-Get Happy A Step by Step Guide to Clear Clutter and Organize Success. She writes about strategies and solutions to declutter, organize and energize your home and your life.
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