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The Clutter-free Holiday Guide
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This is another fabulous article from ZenHabits.net – he really does hit the nail on the head with this topic don’t you think?
You often see holiday gift guides and the like, but not often enough do we see guides on dealing with clutter during this most cluttered of seasons.
From gifts to wrapping to decorations to cardboard boxes from Amazon and more, the holidays can see more accumulation of clutter than any other time of the year.
How do we deal with it? It takes a multi-pronged approach.
Let’s dive in.
Clearing Existing Clutter
If your house isn’t free of clutter at this point, you can start to make a dent, even with a busier holiday schedule.
Some ideas:
- Spend just 2-5 minutes at a time. Get a cardboard box for donations. When you’re in your bedroom, spend 2-5 minutes picking off a few things you definitely don’t need, and put them in the box. Later, when you’re in the kitchen, spend 2-5 minutes doing the same on your countertop. And on your dining table, on shelves when you walk past them, on your closet floor, all at various times as you’re walking through an area. Not all in one day, but in bits each day.
- Carve out 30 minutes a few times a week. Put it on your calendar. Spend that time clearing out a closet — just take out as many things that you don’t need as you can in 30 minutes. Put them in the donate box or the trash.
You probably won’t have time to declutter your entire house during the holidays, but that’s OK. Just get the ball rolling, and tackle the rest in January.
Gift Expectations
Probably the biggest clutter problem during the holidays, for many people, is getting gifts you don’t need that will just clutter up your house.
The key here is to manage expectations:
- Talk to your friends and family, or send out an email or Facebook post. Tell them you’d prefer not to get any gifts because you’re trying to reduce clutter.
Read more here: http://zenhabits.net/clutterfree-holiday/