21 Quick Decluttering Tasks That Don’t Overwhelm

Are you overwhelmed with clutter around and with the idea of decluttering? Here are a few quick decluttering tasks that don’t overwhelm. So plan and execute as such you will not get exhausted mentally before starting the job

Clutter is unnecessary stuff that we don’t use now or don’t need now. So the idea of decluttering is associated with lots of planning and implementing. Initially, when you are starting this job, it may seem very difficult to keep one motivated to complete the task of decluttering. There is an inner fear associated with

You may also like to read 15 reasons why you should declutter your home. This will definitely help in keeping you motivated to start and complete the activity of decluttering.

And if you are a working person, a mom with toddlers, it seems difficult to another level. But once you practice, it’s much easier. You need to learn the secret do declutter, organize and keep home tidy. Learn more decluttering tips here.

QUICK DECLUTTERING TASKS

An easier strategy is to start your decluttering in smaller sections/ areas/ parts. So that at the end of each task you will feel a sense of accomplishment and this will motivate you for the next task.

For that, you need to plan properly. If required make a list of rooms and spaces you need to make clutter-free. Then allocate days and time for each room or each place you need to declutter.

Start slow. One place at a time

Slow & Steady Wins The Race

List of easy & quick decluttering tasks

This is a list of small tasks that won’t take more than 15 – 20 minutes (less than 30 minutes) at a time. But at the same time, it will add to the overall decluttering. When you finish one small task, you will be motivated to move ahead to the next task. So the task of decluttering will not be overwhelming for you.

1. Table Drawers in Living Room
2. Piles of Papers/ newspapers
3. Rearrange bookshelf
4. Declutter Shoe rack
5. Check out wardrobe drawers
6. Kid’s wardrobe
7. Toys section
8. Kid’s art & craft supplies
9. Clean your purse & wallet
10. Remove expired food from the fridge
11. Clean vegetable trays
12. Clean kitchen countertop
13. Check out the utensils rack
14. Clear the storage area in the kitchen
15. Clean under the sink area.
16. Clear your bathroom vanity drawer
17. Declutter your make up kit
18. Clean laundry area
19. Dressing Tabletop & drawers
20. Storage box of the bed
21. Bedside tabletop & drawers

Clean out small drawers 1 by 1

In my home, there are 4 – 5 tables and each has 1 or two drawers. Find out such a smaller section. Start with 1 table drawer.

1. Trash the unnecessary papers, manuals, old bills, small paper pieces, expired medicines, etc, etc, etc.
2. Take out necessary stuff only and rearrange in the drawer after it’s clean.
3. If completed 1 then start with another drawer.

Clean out papers and books

1. Newspapers: If you have piles of newspapers, throw them out. Old papers are just clutters occupying space and make the place look clumsy. You may sell them to old paper/ book traders who can reuse them.
2. Book Shelf: Rearrange the bookshelves. Find out books like novels, academic books of kids that you have already finished reading, and that is not used today and will not be used in the future. Try to donate them to the libraries or to the needy kids you know.
3. Other piles of papers: Many times we store papers, medical bills, old prescriptions, user manuals. Sort out such stuff and trash everything that will not be needed. Trash out old cards, letters which are just an emotional burden now.

Start a small section of the wardrobe

1. Take a smaller section like undergarments.
2. Throw out old unused ones.
3. Clean the drawer and rearrange.
4. Check out your shoe rack and trash the broken and unused/ unnecessary items.

Declutter kid’s wardrobe

1. Kids normally grow faster. Check out for the clothes that they have grown out. Donate to needy ones for the best.

Check out kid’s toys section

This is an easy decluttering activity. If you are a mom of a toddler, you will agree that these are the stuff scattered on the floor every time. And there is no way to stop them playing.

I clean the floor approximately 5 – 6 times in a day picking up toys to their respective place.

1. Remove the toys that are broken and risky.
2. Throw them immediately.
3. Take out the old ones and keep it for donation to needy ones.
4. Make a basket or box for the storage of such toys your kid plays every day.
5. Make a separate basket for art & craft supplies.

It takes hardly 10 minutes. Lesser toy in the toy box is less scattered here and there.

Clean your purse & wallet

Quickest of all quick decluttering tasks that take 15 minutes or even less. I do it once a month.

1. Remove all old bills, unnecessary items,
2. Rearrange the daily use documents, ticket pass, wallet, cards, money, cosmetic items, etc.

Quick decluttering tasks of the kitchen

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A. Clean your fridge:

1. Take out leftover and expired food items that will not be used.
2. Clean the vegetable basket and remove any spoilt ones.
3. Throw away empty sauce bottles.

B. Clean the kitchen countertop:

1. Remove unnecessary items.
2. Use a multilayer shelf for small spice boxes, oil containers, etc.

C. Discard the broken utensils, storage boxes.

1. Throw away any broken cups, soccer, plates or bowls.
2. Discard excess plastic food containers.
3. Discard pots and pans that are not used for ages.

D. Rearrange kitchen utensils drawer

1. Remove cracked plates or bowls.
2. Clean and rearrange the drawer.

E. Clean under-sink area of the kitchen

1. Check out for empty bottles or unnecessary items

Quick Decluttering Tasks in the bathroom

1. Remove empty bottles, sachets of toiletries.
2. Throw away the cosmetics that have been expired.
3. Clean the soap rack and vanity drawer
4. Arrange and declutter your makeup kit.

Miscellaneous / Any other places for quick decluttering tasks

1. Dressing tabletop and drawers
2. Storage area on the bed
3. Arrange bedside table
4. Declutter the Shoe rack
5. Laundry area to get rid of empty bottles, pouches, sachets.

This will definitely help you start the bigger decluttering task. Once you started with easy and quick decluttering tasks and complete them quickly, you are now motivated and on get-go mode for the bigger decluttering. And since major smaller parts are done, the next level of decluttering won’t be difficult and time taking.

Share your experience of such tasks and how it motivated you to complete the task of decluttering.