Declutter my Home

I am in the process of decluttering right now! The first bedroom upstairs is dreadfully cluttered with things I meant to take up to the attic, things that needed to find a place and just plain things. I began last Friday and the room looks much, much better! Every day I pick one item and put it away. Sometimes that means a trip to the attic, sometimes it means just dropping it in the trash or in a box. Usually after I do the one thing I'll take the time to do another. The room is half de-cluttered now and much more organized! It won't take more than another few days to have it looking good at this rate.

OK wait, where's the wall? and the floor?

I am constantly trying to de-clutter but Mr Croc keeps saying the dreaded words, 'that might come in handy', it never does. He also seems to be addicted to buying things from charity shops, so no matter how much clutter I clear he replaces it with twice as much. One day I'm going to send him out and get rid of all his stuff, the house would seem twice the size.

Declutter? What's that? LOL Our whole apartment looks like that room you have described. LOL As for the room you describe, it reminds me of a room at my grandparents place, full of stuff that they have aquired at garage sales over the last five or six decades. LOL there are all kinds of interesting treasures (not clutter, treasures! LOL) in that room.

We have a room just like that too!! It's also our spare room, but it doesn't have a bed in there, there's no room, what with all the junk. It is very useful but it's getting fuller and fuller, not sure what we're going to do with it. We're not very good at this decluttering lark, there's always so many better things to do with our time.. So I'm afraid I can't help you with any decluttering advice, hope somebody else knows more!!

i don't get cluttered to start with. be strict with yourself and if you haven't used something for a year then get rid of it. you won't need it and in the very unlikely event that just in case occurs then steal a new one. incidentally what is your clutter?

We've decluttered. We still need to do more. I think we try to look at things and say that we're not using it and somebody else might.

Well as I am moving I am doing it now but it is not to bad as I have only been here 3 Years not like when I moved here lol there was loadssssssssssssssssssss because I had been living there 14 years Today I found the Baby Photos again of my 2 and oh those where the Days lol But quite a bit has already been disposed of lol

I lets thing go for people who are in need. I donate to veterans. I don't keep anything just in case. Oh, maybe hammer and nails, that I use once every two years. Everything else has to go...if not used in two years.

i have always enjoyed decluttering for two reasons.... first thing is when start sorting it... i get many things that will refresh my memory and i get the feeling that i am reliving those movements... and i feel happy about it... second thing is i dont want anyone to interfere in my family privacy...

Hi p1key, Lol!! as you have seen my house, my whole house is cluttered, I neend to declutter it and cleare everything out!! and guess where they are going? all up in the attic but I need hubby to do that and to depend on him is another thing,but I do have this bad habit of keeping things, just in case, lol! hugs, Tamara xxxx

The best way to declutter is to move. Want to trade houses? LOL

oh clutter, clutter, clutter.... boy do I know about it and have to deal with it on a weekly basis!!!! first let me say I have been married--going to be 14 yrs this March...we lived in apartments for the first 9 yrs of our marriage and we always had a "drop all" room --that is what I called it because that is where we got stuff and dropped it and it stayed there and like 4 times a yr I would clean out that room.... 5 yrs ago we bought a fixer upper house when it was justs hubby,me and our son... and the house is smaller than the last 2 apartments we had -so we had alot of stuff to fit in a small place...but at least we had a garage to put the extra... well I have been de-cluttering us for the last 5 yrs..and now we have our daughter -- so when I get rid of stuff I swear we get 2 things to replace that one!!...so I am always decluttering my house week by week... On the bright side, we bought our house and the house market dropped...so our house isnt worth what it was when we bought it... ...but I try to think positive and tell hubby since we wont be selling to quickly we have the time to put into remodeling (which we do the work ourself) and we have time to go through everything --a little bit at a time -- and make it perfect before we sell....LOL So I know and am living with a clutter situation, but I can say it is much better than it was last year!!! LMAO!!Happy mylotting!!

Hello, Pikey. When we sold up in England a couple of years ago, we had to empty a 3 reception room, 3 bedroom house, with an attic the size of the whole top floor. I did lots of car boot sales, took stuff to the charity shops, made regular trips to the tip, which was thankfully only a mile away, and invited friends and family around to take their pick of things we didn't need. Of course, one man's junk is another man's treasure. We found some old wooden boxes in the attic, which Tony wanted to send to the tip. I said I wanted to sell them at the car boot sale, and I got the asking price straight away - I could have charged even more, and sold more if I'd had them. I'm trying not to accumulate clutter now, but it's difficult, as I'm married to an inveterate hoarder.

I will just say that the attatched photo here explains my answer. Thjis is just one area of my basement. But then again, it's this way for now as we are finishing a room down there. as always...... HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

I need to do that, too. I'm trying, though. I work one little section at a time, otherwise I'd be so overwhelmed by the daunting task at hand that I'd become immobilized with anxiety and just curl up on the couch instead. I'm much better at organizing other people's stuff. Wanna trade?

you can do this, Pike. I had to do this a few months ago when I moved to a smaller place. Get 3 empty boxes. One for things to toss, one for things to donate and another for things you need to keep. Its mind over matter. You have to be determined to de-clutter that room. I got rid of things that I thought had sentimental value. They did actually but the thing was is they were in a box in my closet taking up room. I never looked at them and they had no purpose. I still have the memory of them and that is what is important. letters and things, I scanned on my computer and put on disc. Later....someday...I'll download them and put them in a scrapbook. It is hard but if you put your mind to it then you can do it and you won't regret it. If you haven't used it in a year then odds are you probably won't. Once in a great while I get rid of something I wish I hadn't but it's never anything big that I can't easily replace.

We also have a spare room that is just used to store stuff in. It is pretty full and someone has to go through it. *sigh* But I can't quite bear to do it. I'm terrible for that.

I think bringing someone else in is a fabulous solution. My mother would sort you out in no time! She holds no prisoners, accepts no excuses, and works for tea and biscuits. Someone else hasn´t got the emotional attachment to your old junk, and can see it for what it is. Unfortunately, I haven´t anyone handy to declutter for me and as I´m currently spread over three different houses my clutter is reaching momentous proportions. Do you remember that TV programme where they chucked everyone´s junk into the garden then only let it back into the house if it was worth keeping? I can´t remember if it was a series or a one off, but I was so impressed with the idea. With the long dry summers we get here it would be an ideal solution. Chuck everything out, and start afresh! It would certainly give the neighbours something new to gossip about. I suspect boredom would set in before everything was sorted though, with the unfortunate result that the clutter would just be spread throughout the garden as well as the house.

Hey p1key! If I had an extra room I know for sure it would be just as you described! Instead I have things everywhere and need to declutter! There are things pushed into closets so that when you open them you could get hurt! There are things pushed into every corner and under every empty space! My upstairs neighbor who passed away a few months ago had a room full of clutter and when his family and I were cleaning out his apartment we found things buried in piles that he had kept for over 10 years! And he kept the strangest things! And he was only living in the apartment for three years!