How is the best way to declutter the house.?

Question

because i am sick of stubbing my toes on objects that my partner keeps moveing from one spot to another.driveing my nuts.

Answer 1

have a boot fair or something?  my house isnt cluttered at all but dont just chuk stuff out make your money back ! i luff non cluttered houses like they say less is more =] xx

Answer 2

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cle...

Answer 3

Throw all the clutter away.

(the answer is in the question).

Answer 4

start throwing away, by far the best way to declutter, you would be surprised how much stuff you dont actually need.

Answer 5

Bin bag in hand and go for it....

Answer 6

Every day, go through something or another (takes maybe a half hour) and if there's anything you're iffy on keeping, ask yourself: Do I really need this? Am I ever going to use it? If one of those answers is a no, THROW IT OUT. It was hard to declutter my house of all my c**p, but it's a lot more efficient and clean that it was before.

Answer 7

Take everything out of the room except the furniture. then bring back the things you really love.Everything thats left goes to the good will. Do this in everyroom and often.

Answer 8

ask if they really need the things try having a car boot and make some cash whilst decluttering

Answer 9

Take 10-15 a day with a bag in your hand and walk around your house throwing things out for just those minutes.  When the time's up, stop.  At the end of the week, you'll have thrown away SEVEN bags of trash!  That's a great start!!   You can even carry around 2 bags if you want another to be a donate bag, and that will be 14 bags at the end of the week!!

There's an organizer, he has some books out, his name is Peter Walsh, he had the show Clean Sweep, he is amazing!  His book, It's All Too Much is awesome, you can get it on amazon.com and it's really good.  He tells you how to take small steps and go room by room and get through the clutter.

Here's the thing though.  He tells you that you MUST get the person making the mess involved in cleaning the mess or it's NEVER going to get better!  Which he IS right, you can clean and clean, but if your partner keeps bringing things in and moving them around, you'll be doing this in a vicious cycle forever, you cleaning and he's filling those clean spots with more stuff.

You can get the book or buy 2 and have your partner read it or have your partner read it when your done.  Maybe if you two sit down and talk, there can be a compromise.  Maybe your partner can walk around with you during the week with a bag for the 10 minutes throwing things away with you, finding things that can be parted with. It's VERY freeing once you start and maybe that's something that will happen for you and your partner!

You can also go into a room and make 3 piles:  Keep, Toss, and Donate, those you're keeping, obvioulsy, they go in the keep pile, those that are garbage go in the toss pile, and whatever you want to donate, goes into donate.  They say whatever you are tossing and donating should get out of the house asap so no one can change their minds!  LOL   Maybe after going through the house for a week with the bag, and feeling there is no more you feel you can toss without going through things like drawers and closets, you can start the Keep, Toss, and donate piles, those have always worked SO good for me!  

At least you know with donating, they are going to someone that can use them, and you know it's not going to waste, that's something that always helped me get rid of things.  This past year, I got rid of OVER 80 bags of things!  From clothes, to stuff, to what was holding me down and that's what it begins to feel like, and I'm in a one bedroom apartment!  I have NO clue where I had room for all of it!  I did though and I do NOT miss ANY of it!  I am still getting rid of more each week!  It's freeing and liberating and great knowing someone else is getting use out of it and here it just wasn't being used.  It's the biggest clean out I've EVER done since I was a teenager (I'm 36 now), so it was LONG overdue!

Good luck and I hope the 10 walk through helps you and the keep, toss, donate helps you.  I hope you can get your partner on board and that things go well.  Maybe after thowing some things out and donating some things, everyone will get on a roll!

Answer 10

I love this it is Better Housekeepings 30mintue declutter tool http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cle...

but if that is way too specific for you, try this from the HGTV show NEAT (very inspirational show for people like me!) - http://www.neattv.com/home.html and lastly this is just a list of de cluttering tips  http://www.smart-women.com.au/site/14389...

Enjoy the process though cause you will feel unbelievably good once done!