If you are on a mission to a clutter-free beautiful home, then this simple guide to a clutter-free minimalist home will help you get your dream home easily.
Whenever I see decluttered, nicely organized rooms in magazines and television, I always wished for such ones.
But all these are in our hands only. How neatly we are maintaining our house, organizing the place where we live our life all depends on us only.
And trust me it’s not a very tough task always. But it requires little commitment from us to keep our home free and alive.
A clutter-free home also has a positive impact on our life, our relationship, our mindset. It influences our thought process, acceptance in life, and reflects our course of actions.
Why decluttering is essential?
Have you ever noticed how you feel when you are in a clutter-free and neatly organized space or room? or simply say in a beautifully clean and tidy room?
It may be a hotel room that is neat and clean or maybe of some friend’s home.
You will feel contented, happy in a neat and clean environment. This has happened to me always. I always loved to visit my friend’s home that is clean, because that ultimately makes me happy when we party there.
The environment itself sends some kind of positivity and a peace of mind.
When the living space is clean, rooms look more spacious, more lights coming to the room make it alive and live-worthy.
It impacts our psychology and our mind/ brain directly. It brings in more positivity in mind and our life.
It lessens the anxiety and brings in a sense of peace in our minds. And we all shall agree that a peaceful mind is a storehouse of creativity.
How does a clutter-free home change your lifestyle?
As I said above, decluttering plays an important role in shaping your life. When you are living in a clutter-free organized home,
- It impacts your overall mind and body.
- It keeps the place cleaner with more space.
- Also, it will make the place calmer.
- Lessens your anxiety and stress.
- It helps to keep you in a good mood and brings in positivity.
- This will keep you healthy and happy.
- It creates a sense of confidence and self-efficacy
Read more about benefits of decluttering and stay motivated.
Clutter & Brain – The Direct Connection
Research has proved that clutter has a direct effect on the brain. It says “more mess means more stress”. Adding more it says, clutter can affect your ability to focus, sleep, and anxiety level. It also triggers the coping strategies. That mess may even make you less productive. Clutter and disorganization has a cumulative effect on the brain.
Our brain actually loves a peaceful environment and organization. So only seeing the disorganization consistently, is enough to drain out the power of our brain. Ultimately it results in lesser focus, bad memory, and lesser to no productivity.
Clutter can create stress, anxiety, and depression also. See how powerful and the negative role it plays in our life. And that’s not all. This has also been found that it’s linked to poor eating habit or eating junks more often. So it leads to a bad food habit and ultimately a bad stressful lifestyle with more diseases.
Simple Practices to Live in a Clutter-free Home
Remove the excess:
This is the major reason for a cluttered home. We tend to buy more than we need. Whenever we buy something, it’s not always our need, but it’s an urge to buy something new. When we buy new stuff before or without discarding the present ones, it results in clutter. Gradually it increases if we don’t declutter it periodically.
More stuff occupies more space leaving lesser free space. This makes the room or place look congested and unorganized. Gradually it turns into a mess. So the magical step is to remove the excess first. Do some noble by donating them to the needy ones if you can.
Consistency is the key:
This stands in all situations. If you keep on decluttering periodically or at regular intervals, then it will never seem to be a tough task. Keeping things at their respective places, organizing regularly and maintaining it in day to day routine will lessen the anxiety to declutter all stuff.
Even if you re doing it the first time, it may be stressful first, but once it’s organized, it’s not that difficult to maintain it. Also, periodical cleaning makes it easier. Also, remember the thing that has not been used since long is just occupying the space and it’s not needed now. So just get rid of such things quickly. Keep your emotions and sentiments away from such items in order to get a clutter-free home.
Make Cleaning a Regular Habit:
Once you have cleared the excess clutter and once organized properly, consciously make a habit to clean things or rooms regularly. E.g. we eat every day, we sleep every day. why not cleaning every day?
Practically may not be possible for working professionals or even for the homemakers. It’s a time taking job. But when we do it regularly, it’s already clean and tidy. But it helps in making this a habit. And stops the clutter to get accumulated making the task tougher for us.
Some of the examples are:
- You can clean the kitchen immediately after cooking or after every meal.
- Placing daily use items in their respective places regularly.
- Keeping the laundry area clean after each use.
- Keeping wardrobe neat and segregated each time.
The list is long in fact and you can take a little bit care every day so that it won’t get cluttered again. And once you are into this habit, you will enjoy this. Trust me.
Be A Wise Buyer: Buy Only When Needed
Whenever we buy new stuff, we buy impulsively with a temptation. It’s an urge when we see some new in the market or new trending. Sometimes we get convinced by the seller that we shall have the newest product of the market. And we purchase unnecessarily even if we don’t need that product at that point in time. Sometimes it’s just for status symbol. But ultimately it will not help us in our goal of living in a clutter-free home.
To stop this habit, evaluate your purchase before buying. Next time consciously analyze a few points before you buy any new product, i.e
- Do I seriously need this right now?
- Do I have a place to store it?
- How much space I have and how much it will occupy? (for larger object)
- How will I replace the similar old product?
- Will it affect my budget adversely?
- Is it an impulsive purchase or I really need this?
- Is there any alternative solution to this purchase?
Once you make this also a habit, you may turn into a smart buyer and will not add more clutter to your home. To purchase with complete awareness will not add to more clutter. This self-awareness is required for a clutter-free home.
Your home is a living space, not a storage space.
6 Ways to practice a clutter-free home
Stay motivated to declutter –
Refer to more motivational organization books, quotes. This will help you to stay self-motivated. First, learn more about the benefits of decluttering and feel it by starting some quick small tasks that won’t overwhelm you when you are starting. At the same time, it will keep you motivated to complete the tasks and give you a sense of accomplishment.
Small tasks one at a time
If you will start with the larger part of your house or start with your most cluttered section, there are chances you may not complete the task. At the same time, you will feel negative, over-stressed both emotionally and physically without any proper outcome. So start with quicker ones that will send a feel-good emotion and accomplished feel. This will increase your productivity.
Do it periodically
Don’t Procrastinate
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