How do you eliminate clutter?
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make several bins (rubbermaid boxes are great) label them:
Trash; Charity; Garage Sale (or whatever).
Go room to room and place every thing you dont need or have not worn in over 18 months in one of those bins.
Once done in all rooms. Keep up basic cleaning, pitching out as you go or see the need. You may have to do the bin thing two seasons a year. That way you can constanly re-evaluate your needs/wants etc.
It seems like a hugh task, but once you get on it, you get into a groove and you can have it done in no time.
With the kids rooms; make it like a game and re-enforce the giving to others aspect and it will make them clutter free and giving in life.
(you will have to help me with spouses/room-mates) I dont have an answer for those (unless you do it while they are gone)
Other answers:
everthing has a place-keep it there
everthing has a place-keep it there
garage sale! Usually when im going threw stuff I think if I used the item in the past 6 months if I haven't then i get rid of it.
If you used it, needed it or wanted it in the last year then you keep it but find a place for it. Otherwise throw it away or better yet if the stuff is good give it away.
I always go on a throw everything away spree. The less I have sitting around my house the happier I am.
I hate throwing things away, so I just rent more space.
When you find out, can you tell me? =)
anytime the paralised Vets call or the leukemia society or charity of choice. I go to my closet/cupboard etc.. anything I haven't used in the past year is set out for P/U . I do this all year long. It also allows me to claim the full deduction come tax time. I'm done with garage sales, haggling over a 25 cent item . If' it's a bigpiece, I sell on Ebay now.
one helpful point is DONT KEEP ALL THE CLEANING FOR ONE TIME!! if you do it gradually it wont be so hard. also if you stay organized all year long then you wont have to clean it every spring
the way i do it, is i go through everything a little bit at a time, or start with one room at a time, if there is no place for that item, or if it is not used any more than i get read of it, or i make a place for it (such as a junk drawer, or box) but i limit the amount of space i have for these things.