It is an obvious fact that decluttering your home in the form of spring cleaning would mean that you would not need to be doing so much housework for the near future. Clearing redundant trash out is known to reduce housework by at least 30 to 40 percent! A huge one time effort to do a clean-up will inevitably result in lesser effort to upkeep the place for the days of non-festive season.
Here are some tips of how we can declutter our home, and how we can prevent needing to have a massive clean-up activity again!
What is trash?
This is often the step that causes everyone to procrastinate or take such a long time with their spring cleaning process! Here is how you can classify your items to determine what trash is:
Items with sentimental value and no financial value
Items that fall under this category could be a broken watch your girlfriend gave you for your previous birthday or a scrapbook your husband made for you for your first anniversary. Such are items that you definitely want to keep regardless of their condition. Get yourself a carton box or container, put them all inside, and store them somewhere under your bed, in your closet, or in your store room!
Unused items with financial value
Ask yourself if these group of items have been used anytime at all in the past year. These could be in the form of a dress you purchased out of rash intentions from a sale, a sandal you purchased just because it looked cute, or accessories you purchased just because of a bulk discount! Thankfully for the emergence of Carousell, we can exchange these items for monetary value instead of having to throw them away. Should there be no potential buyer despite lowering your price several times, perhaps you could donate it to a charity organisation since it is too good for the bin!
Items you are unsure of
There will definitely be unused items with financial value that you do not know whether or not you will need again in future. For example, you could be moving on to the next academic year or semester in your polytechnic or junior college, and you are hesitant if you would need your text books in the upcoming year. For items that you can identify a possible use for in the upcoming year, store them in a box! It is much easier to make a quick decision than to mull over whether or not to throw them away. So long as you can identify a probable use for it, keep it.
Everything else
Then there are everything else. These are items with no sentimental value, no financial value, items used for the past year, and items you do not see a use for in the upcoming year. The decision is now obvious – throw them all away!
Ensuring your spring cleaning is worth it
Going through this task of eliminating clutter can be tedious and strenuous. Therefore, it is highly essential to ensure that we do not need to go through it again. To aim to consistently declutter your home is much easier said than done.
- Purchase for home some practical furniture in the form of shelves, cabinets, or stackable drop front boxes.
- Categorise your items and store them neatly. Being able to see how very item is stored reduces unnecessary time attempting to find!
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Decluttering home is kinda difficult, this post has made it super easy 🙂
Great advice. thank you so much for sharing. i may need to get my stuff sorted at home and your write up really helped to give me motivation.
That’s good explanation, thanks for the lesson very much.
After reading ur post, it reminds me to organize and decluttering my stuffs again. I try to do it once every month, to keep things organize and clean!
Thanks for your informative sharing. I have learnt up some tips for this spring cleaning haha
While commenting here am still finishing decluttering. As CNY is almost here, i need of get rid of unwanted items, to give space on new stuffs.
CNY is almost here and I really need to start decluttering… Thanks
Thanks for sharing this..box kasut tu dah beli..memang nampak tersusun..dan nak beli box lain utk simpan barang lain..tengah mendeko rumah ni
Thank you for sharing and happy CNY soon
Nothing makes me feel goof than decluttered home. I try my best to make my closet look like Takashimaya, because everyday it looks like a charity shop.
Love your tips! I have been decluttering since Xmas… It never ends… I wish a magician would come and help me declutter instantly
This is great, now I could save some time. Thanks for the tip! ?
Thanks for the advice. I need to clear mine for CNY already.
thanks for the sharing and tips..! it works for me. CNY is around the corner, is time for me to do this 🙁
I also trying to decluttering my home. Not an easy task for me coz too many things . hahaha
That is so useful and perfect tips to keep my home neat
When I say gonna throw or giveaway usually end up still keeping it. Lol… Gonna learn more from your tips given
I started declutting last weekend and honestly am not done yet, hahaha. I also prefer using transparent organizers so I could easily the content. If not, i tend to forgot i have them.
Oh dear, this is the toughest part during spring cleaning every year. Hardest to get rid of items with sentimental value. ?
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I am bad with spring cleaning as I am a bit of a hoarder – I can’t never find anything that I want to get rid of. Huhu.
Thank you for the tips.
CNY is coming. I will utilize your tips..hehe
Thanks for sharing these tips! It’s time to declutter but first, need to find the time and energy. So much to go through!
it feels super nice after we have declutter our home. thanks for the tips here.
Great tips for a cleaner and neater home. My hubby always complain that things are put everywhere and not tidy.
just the perfect tips for me to keep my home clean and neat… thanks