My house, My room is a mess. I have huge clutter, how do I clean it out?

Question

My house, My room is a mess. I have huge clutter, how do I clean it out?

Answer 1

with a garbage bin and some loyal friends!!!

Answer 2

phone up a skip company get a skip delivered fill up skip phone skip company up they come back pick up skip no more clutter

Answer 3

Become an arsonist.

Answer 4

Have a yard sale! You'd be surprised how much junk you can sell.

For trash and stuff get some trash sacks and get busy.

Answer 5

Hire Someone to do it or pay ur friend to do it  

Answer 6

http://lifehacker.com/software/clutter/g...

http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of...

Answer 7

Oh my gosh I am a terrible periodic clutterbug.

Sometimes a few months go by before I do a major cleaning, and by that time I have piles of things everywhere with paths going through the rooms...  it's a mess.

Inevitably, those are the times I get a call from a family member or old friend, "Hey, you live in a great vacation spot! (FL)  I just found out I can get a week off...  in five days!"

So here is my tried-and-true strategy to pick up, clean up, and then de-clutter...  at your own pace, and in a way that unless you are a hopeless case like me should keep ya organized and neat for a couple years (it's worked for friends of mine).

It is a simple four step plan.

Step One:  Call your local Wal-Mart and find out what time they start to stock.  At about 2 hours after that time, go there and walk around with an empty cart.  The stockers will have carts of empty boxes near them, and they will be more than happy to give away all the big boxes you can carry (with the exception of a few departments that get multiple-use boxes that the store returns for 85 cents a piece).  In about 20 minutes you should be able to get a cart full of large boxes.  Also buy a box of garbage bags, preferable a different color from the ones you normally use for garbage.

Step Two:  One room at a time, go through your house.  Put EVERYTHING that is not in it's proper place (i.e. on a shelf, in a drawer, hanging in a closet) in one of your new boxes, except for your laundry, which goes in the garbage bags.  If you have the time, put the stuff into the boxes in loose groups - papers, DVDs & games, books & magazines, toiletries & cosmetics (except what you use everyday, just put that on your bathroom counter).  Get everything that is just laying around, that you do not use on a day-to-day basis into those boxes!  Now, if you have an extra bedroom, pile them all in there.  Otherwise, a combination of closets and your bedroom should hold them and leave the "public rooms" of the house box-free.

*NOTE* LABEL YOUR BOXES!  It can be generic labels of what room you found all that stuff in, semi-generic labels of the kind of thing it contains (canned food/paperbacks/Halloween decorations), or super-specific lists of everything you put in if, like me, you are convinced that you will definitely have a sudden, urgent need for your apple peeler/Portugese-to-English dictionary from high school/bridesmaid dress from your sister's wedding two years ago.

Step Three: Clean clean clean clean clean.  Now that you have re-discovered the carpet color in your rooms, found tons of extra counter, drawer, and closet space, clean every single inch of everything!  Again, breaking it down one room at a time helps immensely.  Suckering a few friends into helping, or bribing them with pizza & beer (or champagne & caviar if your house is really filthy, lol), will help even more.

Step Four:  Unpack.  One.  Box.  At.  A.  Time.  As you unpack, put everything away in it's proper place.  If you run out of places, or have things that can go into temporary storage (seasonal decorations, out-of-season clothes like winter coats/bathing suits, baby stuff), buy some of those nifty Rubbermaid tubs and label them with Post-Its!  Put your pens in an old coffee mug!  And get a bunch of generic brand Baggies for holding things like rubber bands, paper clips, hair ties, etc. to keep your drawers organized!  For papers, buy a couple milk crates or filing cabinets and a lot of manila folders.  And don't be afraid to get extra bookshelves (and hangers!)!  When your house is neat, you will be less likely to just throw stuff around.

But most importantly...

Throw some of that *rap away.  When was the last time you really wore those stirrup pants?  1988?  Do you really need receipts for every single thing you bought in 2001?  (No, but save big purchase receipts, receipts that might be needed for refunds or repairs or warranties, and tax-deductible items if applicable.)  If necessary, if you are unsure of some things, take another box and just put all that stuff back into it.  Then, when you are all done with your original boxes, go through the "unsure" ones.  Make another "unsure" box and put the stuff you still can't decide about if necessary.  And after three sets of "unsure" boxes, if you still aren't sure you need it, you probably don't.

Good luck!