Your home might look like a hoarder’s paradise now, but when you are finished with it, it will look like a great place to live in again. While it can require a little hard work to dig in and rid your home of clutter, you will be glad you did. Not only will you have more space, but you will likely have far less stress too. So, take a deep breath, because it is time to get down to business with your seven home decluttering steps.

Step 1: Make a List

When you start to declutter your home, you will want to build a list of areas that need decluttering. This will make it easier to organize your homes decluttering needs on paper. Once you have a pretty good idea what areas of your home needs the most attention, you will finally be in a position to get started.

Step 2: Enlist the Help of Someone Else

Decluttering your home is going to be physically and emotionally demanding. This is why you should get another person to help. With another person helping you to stay on task, the job will become much lighter over the term of the decluttering process. Additionally, another person can help you move and clean behind heavy furniture. This way, you do not have to break your back moving your couch.

Step 3: Handling Excess Clothing

You will find that clothes can be some of the greatest contributors to the clutter around your home. Generally, what you do not wear a lot either gets stuck on a hanger in your closet or shoved into a box. As you go through the clothes from room to room, you need to decide what you want to keep to wear and what clothes you want to donate. Many organizations and ministries have drop boxes for clothing, so you have options for disposing of those old clothes that you do not want anymore.

Step 4: Getting Rid of Old Electronics

Old electronics, especially those you no longer use, can be a huge cause of clutter throughout your home. From component hardware parts to wires and connectors, electronic devices can really take up space and be a little messy looking too. One way to declutter electronic devices is to work with a company who buys back your old electronic gadgets. You may not realize this, but your old computers, phones and other devices can fetch a decent amount of money from companies that purchase your old tech gadgets. Not only will this help to declutter your home, it might help to put a few extra bucks in your pocket too.

Step 5: A Quick Sweep

Grab a box and start going from room to room. While you visit each room, add items to the box that you no longer find enjoyment in keeping. This step helps to start making a dent in the key areas you want to declutter in your home. It also gets you into the habit of separating yourself from the items that you no longer use so often. They might have brought you pleasure long ago, but now they are just taking up space.

Step 6: Attack the Garage

You thought you could just pack up the clutter and stuff it into the garage for safe keeping, but this was mistaken thinking. Now it is time to go through the boxes and bags hiding out in your garage and figure out where it all needs to go. There is no harm in giving some of these items away. Other people can use items you no longer have a need for keeping. If you want to get money for these items, you may consider having a yard sale.

Step 7: Maintenance Decluttering

Once your home is decluttered to a point that you can more easily tolerate, this is no time to call it quits. Rather, you need to continue to stay on top of clutter in your home. At least once a week, you should make a visual inspection of your home and identify if clutter is beginning to accumulate again. If so, then you need to start to systematically address this clutter and prevent it from gaining a significant foothold again.

Conclusion

These are the seven steps to decluttering your home. The steps are relatively easy, but the hard part is actually committing yourself to do the work. If you are willing to take decisive action to declutter your home, you will have more space and a place that looks more organized when others visit.