Fast and Easy Tips to Declutter Your House
If you’re feeling the urge to declutter your home and live with less, then take a look at this quick list that will give you ideas for things you can get rid of fast!
I recently heard this quote from The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: “Someday is never.” Don’t keep anything you’ll plan to use someday. This is where clutter begins. This is where storage begins. And this is where overwhelm sets in.
We don’t need to live with stuff that we’re not using. Our houses are for living… not for storing!
Imagine this. You open a closet and the only things in there are the things you use on a daily/monthly basis. Nothing to wade through, nothing to store. That’s the goal here, friend!
Decluttering Your Kitchen
Kitchen & Pantry Items to Donate or Throw Away
Disposable plates, napkin, and cutlery. We got in the habit of saving extra cutlery that we got from restaurants, but we never ever actually used them. Are you actually using this stuff? If the situation arose where you would use it, what would you actually do? We use our real silverware, so my husband took all our excess stuff to his work.
Mustard, ketchup, and mayo packets. Come on now, this is literally clutter. If you need to take condiments to go, squeeze it into a tiny container.
Utensils not used in the past 6 months. If you haven’t used it in the past 6 months, it’s not important enough to keep. Plus, I bet can find a work-around to accomplish the same task without that utensil.
Expired food. This is a given. If it’s past expiration, throw it away. I don’t care if it’s “still good” — you’re not using it.
Almost-empty containers you haven’t touched in a month. You know the guilty culprit: CHIPS! No one wants the little chip pieces that are left, yet no one wants to bear the guilt of throwing them away. Make a decision today!
Bowls, plates, mixing bowls, and pans not used in the past 6 months. You have your favorites. You always use your favorites. If it’s not a favorite, you don’t need it. Adios!
Find some of my favorite kitchen minimalism tips here.
Decluttering the Junk Drawer
Items to Throw Away in the Junk Drawer
Extra pens (you do not need more than 10 pens). Excess pins are just clutter. If you actually lose ALL your pens, I bet you can find more free pens – that’s how you got them all in the first place, right?!
Extra notepads. Do you ever use all of your notepads at once?!? Trust me, you can get by with one notepad until it runs out. You’ll feel super proud of yourself, too.
Dunno-if-they-work batteries. Here’s the deal: I don’t think it’s worth your time or sanity to figure out which batteries work and which ones are dead. Just throw them away and when you need a new pack, put all the working ones in their own bag or container.
I also shared some kitchen organization ideas here!