Is clutter taking over your life? Here you’ll find articles for Organizing Clutter — and ending your clutter addiction once and for all.

Home Organization Strategy
Home organization means being able to find your stuff when you need it, not after an hour or more of searching.

Clearing Clutter Myths
Read these tips before you start clearing your clutter. It’ll be a lot easier if you do.

Cut Your Clutter
It’s time to take control of the clutter. Here’s 7 easy tips.

Clutter Addiction
Clutter, like all addictions, provides a momentary feeling of comfort…

Spring Cleaning Declutter
Spring is a great time to ask this question – how much is enough?

Prepare Your Home for Summer
If your energy is a little low and you feel hot, how about summerizing your home to reflect the changes that have taken place in nature? You might just get an energy boost.

Declutter My House
Are there homeless items living in your home? If you’re like most families, you have countless bits and pieces lacking designated spaces, so the homeless items are left lying on the nearest shelf or countertop.

How To Organize Your Home Clutter

Cleaning Up Clutter
Cleaning up your clutter can really pay off, big time.

Nobody likes clutter.  It seems to build up so quickly, before we know it we’re buried in clutter. Cleaning up clutter can really pay off, so just do it!

Clutter Clearing Pays Off Big Time!
By Ariane Benefit

No matter how many times I experience it, it still amazes me how much weight and stress is lifted from your shoulders when you clear clutter. Clutter (defined by Webster as “disordered things that impede movement or reduce effectiveness”) affects you in so many ways that often you don’t realize how bad it was until it’s gone.

And, clearing clutter pays off financially too. For example, after spending a weekend clearing clutter from my home office, the next week I booked 7 new clients! Letting go of clutter really changes your life. And it’s not magic, either. Clutter clearing is about letting go of the past and creating a foundation of positive energy that you can work with to bring new success into your life. When things get “stuck” in my business or in my life…I know it’s time to go on a clutter hunt. It’s time to clear out things that have become stagnant and time to finish things that have been left undone. [Read more...]

A home is a place where family members get to be themselves in a relaxing atmosphere. An ideal home should have a comfortable and soothing ambiance that will encourage its occupants to stay there and enjoy each other’s company.

However, a home that is lived in can sometimes have a busy atmosphere because of the clutter and the unorganized gadgets and home furnishing. While it is natural for a lived-in home to have that homey look, it is nevertheless more convenient to have an uncluttered home for the sake of the sanity of household members who want to live in a place that is not physically and psychologically chaotic. [Read more...]

Dear Home Organization Help:

How do I Declutter My House?! I swear the little things keep adding up and they’ve taken over. I don’t even know where to start!

Signed,
Declutter My House, Please!

Dear Declutter My House,
Are there homeless items living in your home? If you’re like most families, you have countless bits and pieces lacking designated spaces, so the homeless items are left lying on the nearest shelf or countertop. After awhile all the little items without a home begin to accumulate, causing clutter and chaos in your household. Without a specific place for everything, your level of discomfort may increase because when you need one of these floating items you will not know exactly where to go to find it. Talk about stressful! [Read more...]

You’re familiar with preparing your house for winter, but do you prepare your home for summer, too? A light, airy feel is needed during the hot summer months.

10 Ways to Summerize Your Home

When we winterize, we prepare for the cold winter months by blocking out anything that might make us feel cold. We plug holes, caulk windows, and turn up the heat. Our home decorations reflect this desire to be warm and cozy. We surround ourselves with things that say “warmth” like candles, throws, festive arrangements, and an abundance of pillows on our beds and couches that invite us to sink into the warmth. Now that it’s summer, I get hot just thinking about this. [Read more...]

How Much Stuff is Enough?

Spring is a great time to ask this question – how much is enough? Do you know why it’s so windy in the spring? I think it’s windy so that leaves and other debris get blown away so there’s room for new growth. How about being the wind in your home this spring and clear out the excess?

Until a several years ago, I had no idea what was enough. I had 25 bath towels (just for me), 75 belts, and 20 screwdrivers. You get the picture. Oh and the vases. I haven’t counted them because I’m not giving them up.

What was the problem? Lack of awareness, plain and simple. What woke me up was a jammed up bathroom. I kept wanting to squeeze more into the already packed drawers and cabinet. Frustrated that my stuff wouldn’t fit, I took everything out. What a mountain of stuff there was. I was amazed that one small room could hold so much stuff. [Read more...]

What makes some people keep a clean, organized home, while others struggle on a daily basis with the clutter and chaos in their lives?

Is there a Psychology of Clutter?

 Are we Addicted to Clutter?

What can we do about it?

Addiction to Clutter

Clutter is a big problem for many people. At a lecture that I gave, I asked for a show of hands regarding how many people had problems with clutter and disorganization. I was surprised to find that at least half the people raised their hands. [Read more...]

Is clutter overtaking your life? Do you want to cut your clutter, but don’t know how? Enjoy this excellent article on 7 simple ways to cut your clutter today.

7 Ways to Leave Your Clutter

Everyone has some degree of clutter lurking at home. When you’re tired of moving it around, stepping over it, and losing important items in it, it’s time to take control of the clutter. What should you do with it? You have seven options:

1. Dispose of it.

Much of clutter is trash you either thought you would need or figured you’d throw out later. [Read more...]

What are the decluttering and organization myths that are holding you back from the home of your dreams?

10 Myths of Clutter Clearing

1) It’s easy to have a good clear out:

Not always. For many people, breaking a life-time habit is really hard – everyone has a choice whether they want to make that break or not. The only way you will succeed is when the pain is so big you convert it into the positive energy you need to make you take ACTION. We have to face those emotions in order to process them – that’s when we learn to let go.

2) I know I should, but:

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Home organization means being able to find your stuff when you need it, not after an hour or more of searching. But home organization doesn’t necessarily mean you’re neat or clean. It doesn’t even mean you’re not a pack rat. Home organization just means everything has a place and you know where that place is in your home.

Of course, when you practice “home organization” and “clearing clutter” together you do inevitably get a neater and more organized home. Why? Because you can find your stuff when you need it AND you’re not tripping over your stuff. So instead of allowing yourself, or your family, to consistently put your shoes in the entryway (where you do know their location), you designate another spot such as a shoe rack in the foyer closet. That’s blending home organization with clutter clearing techniques. Here are 9 strategies for home organization that also may help you clear clutter in your home:

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