15 Tips and Tricks For a More Simple Living with Less Clutter

Guest post: By: Manon The Organizing Queen

Living with less clutter is a healthy way of living, more and more people are realizing this as well. If this is your new found desire the following little tips and tricks will get you closer to that desire of living with less clutter in your home.
Some will work for you and some won't either way start now with the following list:
1. Use an empty Kleenex box for plastic bag storage, keeps the bags tidy in a very small storage space.
2. Use large empty coffee can to store rolls of waxed paper and aluminum foil.
3. Use a plastic over-the-door shoe organizer to sort and store your home office supplies, the pockets are great for pens, glue, stapler and staples, scissors, CDs, and paper clips.
4. If you have a Scanner, scan your bills and store them on a CD. This will eliminate up to 95% of papers in your filing cabinet. (Do not forget to shred your bills prior to discarding them)
5. A simple but powerful rule, in with the new out with the old, every time you buy a new item get rid of something comparable that you can do without.
6. Quick questions to declutter your cloth, does it fit properly? Is the cloth faded? If yes or yes get rid of it, give it away.
7. Use a medium-size garbage can as a bedside table, you can store out of season cloth in it. This is perfect for the kid's bedroom.
8. If you collect magazines, you can recycle the huge can (usually used for popcorn) and curve the magazine to fit in the canister, you may be able to store up to two years of a subscription in one spot.
9. Put all your sheets in an "underbed" container stored in the spare room, this frees up the linen closet.
10. Keep your socks and pantyhose tidy with sandwich-size plastic bags. You can sort them by color and type making it easy to pick out.
11. Keep the boxes new shoes come in, they work great for storing and stacking. If you do not like what they look like decorate them
12. Create"a place for everything" this is the key to decluttering.
13. Use a basket for your paper clutter, collect the stacks and then sort and toss while watching TV.
14. Instead of buying all your plastic containers all at once (which can be expensive) buy one every time you go shopping, before you know it you will have all of the necessary storage containers you need.
15. And finally 15 minutes per day keeps the clutter away, one way to beat the clutter is set the timer for 15 minutes and start putting away items in one room, when the timer rings, you're done for today. Do this each day and you will be caught up before you know it. Know this you can do a lot in 15 minutes when you are focused on only one task. I love this one!
I hope you can find something that will work for you and get yourself closer to living a clutter free life.
About the Author
Decluttering tips providing step by step strategies to remove stress caused by chaos and clutter in your life. As a work from home Mom I can tell you first hand the importance of decluttering quickly and creating an organized home has done for my life and my business.
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