Tips When Doing a Summer Declutter Of Your Home
Are you faced with the uphill challenge of decluttering your home? Has it been avoided long enough but now it’s got so bad that you’re clambering over stuff to get from one room to another? If that sounds like you, then a declutter is likely well overdue. It’s important that you’re doing all that you can to declutter your home as regularly as possible.
It’s a habit that you have to forcefully accept and integrate into home life but you’re not alone when you struggle to embrace it so eagerly. It’s not exactly the most fun of activities now, is it?
If you’re looking to do the summer declutter soon and need some motivation, then hopefully these tips will help to make it a successful activity. Here are some top tips when doing the summer decluttering of your home.
Make a plan and set goals
First and foremost, make sure you’re planning ahead. Do you have an ideal date or weekend that you can set aside to do the declutter? It’s important that you’re finding the right amount of time to tackle the home. Whether you have the task of decluttering your two-bedroom apartment or your five-bedroom townhouse, each property and household requires its own amount of time.
It’s worth looking back on previous declutters and figuring out just how much time you’re going to need. There’s nothing worse than starting a declutter and only getting half of it done and having more mess than when you started.
Make a plan for when to do the declutter and set some goals. What do you want to gain from this? Perhaps you want certain areas to look more minimal in appearance? It may be that you want to figure out how much extra storage your home needs.
Take it room by room
Try not to overwhelm yourself by doing the decluttering all over the shop. If you’re taking bin bags from one part of the home to another, you’re going to exhaust yourself in the process. You’re also more likely to leave your home looking worse than when you started because everything ends up being in disarray.
With that in mind, take it room by room. It’s always good to focus on the worst rooms first because by doing so, it’ll make the rest of the day or period spent decluttering a lot easier. By facing the tough challenges first, you’ll be setting yourself up for a more enjoyable process – or as enjoyable as it can be.
Go through the clutter with family members
Just because you’ve decided to declutter the home doesn’t mean you should do it alone. Depending on how many people are in your household and how capable they are of cleaning or clearing clutter, you should be going through it with other family members.
If it’s just you and your partner, go through this together. After all, not only does the home contain clutter of your partner, but the home is also a shared space. The same goes for your children, too. Whether they’re older children, teenagers, or young adults, they should all be helping to contribute to the tidying up.
Doing the decluttering with other family members will also ensure that you’re not throwing out anything you shouldn’t have and causing an upset in the process.
Look online for opportunities to sell
When it comes to making the most of your decluttering experience, there’s nothing more satisfying than being able to sell items that you no longer need. It makes the effort of decluttering all the more worth it when you make a profit out of it.
Consider looking online for marketplaces and platforms to sell your belongings on. There are plenty of places online where you can sell just about anything, including eBay, Vinted and Facebook Marketplace for bigger items that you don’t want to post.
Donate what you can
While it’s good to make money from your old belongings, it may also be beneficial to pass some of your belongings on to those who may benefit from it second-hand. Giving some of your belongings that are no longer needed to a charity is a great way to give back and to ensure everything you declutter is going to a better home.
Focus on the presence or lack of joy
Finally, if you’re having a hard time getting rid of some items, then consider whether you find joy in them or not. This is often a pretty telling emotion as to whether you need the item or not. If there’s no joy there, then you don’t really need it.
These tips will definitely help with your decluttering efforts this summer in your home.
