Easy Tips to Minimize the Clutter in Your Home

Posted Nov. 10th 2011 under Real Estate Tips

Everyone has clutter somewhere whether it's the scattered shoes that you trip over, or the junk drawer that's long exploded, spilling its guts onto your kitchen counters and onto the bathroom floor. Here are some little tips you can use every day to minimize the clutter.

1. Make your bed every day. Making your bed when your first wake up leads to it being less of a magnet for discarded clothing, purses, and belts and many other things. Think of it like brushing your teeth, you wouldn't leave home without doing that.
2. Put clean bin liners at the bottom of the garbage can. Bagging and taking out the trash is never fun, but somebody has to do it. Using bin liners will remove 2 or 3 steps from the process. When the garbage is full, just tie the bag, pull it out and pull up a clean one.
3. Create order at the doorway:

-- Corral keys and other stuff like wallets and cell phones, and toss them in a wicker basket or dish, or hang them on hooks by the entry door.

-- Stow shoes in a cabinet with cubbyholes in the hallway or underneath a hallway bench.

-- Manage mail by placing a basket or dish on top of the hall table for bills and letters.

-- Stop junk mail before it gets to your door. The average adult receives 41 pounds of junk mail a year, according to the web site www.41pounds.org. Sign up for a service that stops unwanted brochures, catalogues and other unsolicited mail from coming to your door and save a couple of trees in the process.

4. Manage your media:

-- Store your CD collection in the sleeves of a media book. By doing this, you'll get rid of the cases as well as the clunky CD and DVD tower taking up space in the corner of your living room.

-- Get rid of the audio cassettes and VHS tapes you've been holding on to (unless they are family home movies). Do not throw videocassette tapes into the garbage. They contain non-biodegradable material that are hazardous to human health and the environment if not disposed of properly. Contact your local health department, environmental agency, recycling center or landfill to find out where to take your "tapes to trash" for proper disposal

-- Keep your remotes in a basket or tray on top of the media centre, your coffee table or an end table.