Comments on: Instructions for decluttering your home (in less than 500 words)

By: anthony

anthony — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:00:53 +0000

Great article! That is the best way to approach decluttering your home because what usually happens is that we get stressed out just by the thought of having to sort out all the junk that is taking up valuable space in our homes.But if you approach it in a step by step manner then it becomes a lot more managable.

By: Woody

Woody — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:12:43 +0000

I’m a natural pack-rat, but here’s a strategy I use to help me deal with pitching out all those wonderful ‘treasures’ from time to time. Remember the last time you needed to pay a bill but couldn’t find it? How about the time you bought something that wasn’t on sale only to get home and realize you already had two more still in the package?

When you pick something up and think, “This is in the way – but it’s so useful/expensive I can’t just toss it,” remember that simply having junk in the way costs you time and money.

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:37:31 +0000

Nice post! I just wanted to say that clutter is like anything else. You have to get it set in your mind that you are going to conquer the problem. I know when I decided I had had enough. I got a game plan together to declutter my house. If you get a minute you can go check out my story on my blog just click my name it will take you straight to that blog post…

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How To Declutter My House | — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:30:33 +0000

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By: Secret Squirrel

Secret Squirrel — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:12:42 +0000

@Overwhealmed. Let it go on the recycling front. Get it out! I’d imagine your house might resemble a landfill if you’re hanging onto all of that “trash” that needs to be sent out. You know, trash is actually GONE THROUGH by the “technicials” aka: workers at the trash depots. They take magnetically remove cans and steel for recycling, glass bottles, bulbs, cardboard/paper, etc, etc, ad nauseum will be gone through for purposes to be recycled because they know not everone does so. Once it gets to the trash places in an effort to sort things out. They don’t just dump EVERYTHING in a landfill. For more info see Dirty Jobs Episode 101, 222 and others, as well asPenn & Teller Bullsh!t Episode 205. It would behoove you to just throw out an entire can full of “recycleables” to realize it’s OK to let it go. It sounds like it’s ruining your life.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:10:15 +0000

@Overwhelmed Knowledge is power…and in this case can be quite motivating. Check out the websites for your city or trash collector to see if they offer Hazardous Waste Collection and E-waste Collection events. Our city holds a hazardous waste collection every month, and a nearby city holds 2 E-waste events every month. Our local library will take dead batteries and small e-waste like cell phones.

I was holding onto a LOT of things that were not supposed to go into the landfill and was elated to learn about the hazardous waste event. I filled my little pickup truck with old paint, fertilizer, propane tanks etc. and was thankful to have the space back in my garage.

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Simple Ways to Declutter Your Home | The RoomPlace Blog — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:48:54 +0000

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By: Jan - queenofkaos

Jan - queenofkaos — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:40:18 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of decluttering lately and am finding that remembering the value of clear space has really helped a lot.

If I waiver on something I don’t really need I ask myself if it’s worth giving up the space for. Clear spaces make me feel so good that it has got to be pretty important for me to keep these days.

It’s getting easier to let go of things that I have held on to for years since I started thinking this way.

By: Overwhelmed

Overwhelmed — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:34:36 +0000

…My biggest problem is that I want everything recycled and that would mean a trip or two to the recycling center (if they indeed recycle those things) – so I hang on to the fused lightbulbs and the dud batteries and the half can of pesticide, bottles of old sunscreen — oh God!! I do not want to keep things – but I cannot trash it – I want someone to take it away – so that’s my big, big, big problem…

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5 Reasons De-Cluttering Helps Career Development | — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:18:46 +0000

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By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:54:55 +0000

I’ve been working on de-cluttering for the past 10 years. It’s an everyday process. I grew up really poor and have had to deal with my hoarding issues. Right now I”m tackling my garage / storage. A good purge is needed every five years. Things that were important back then are not right now. I’ve been pretty good. Thank goodness for Goodwill and Craigslist. I’ve been able to donate things or give them away and I don’t feel so bad about getting rid of them.

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By: Gregory Thomson

Gregory Thomson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:41:49 +0000

I’m a techie that has a terrible time with paper clutter. I keep articles, procedures, notes, how-to’s, etc… and they tend to pile up until overwhelming, after which I put them in a box somewhere, and then can never find what I need again – too much work to go through the box of stuff. But much of it doesn’t have a logical place to be filed, and some I may not need for a year.
So, being a programmer-type person, I wrote a program to help. It lets me easily maintain and search an index of the papers/docs, and then stick in a ‘misc’ folder in numerical order. It helps me declutter the office of piles of paper. I wrote it for me, but also just decided to make available for others. I put up a simple web page, and have the program available here for anybody interested – http://www.findthatdoc.com. It’s for helping with paper documents, not digital documents.