If you feel you neither have time nor energy to declutter your home, then you’ll love this new episode of the Midway Decluttering Show.
My special guest in this episode is Colleen Madsen of 365 Less Things. Colleen is the queen of decluttering. She has created an awesome and highly engaged community around her blog. She is changing thousands of lives by her super easy approach to declutter your home and life.
Moreover, Colleen is the winner of The #1 Simplicity Blog of The Year 2012.
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Here’re some decluttering notes I took:
- Declutter SLOWLY…s l o w l y. That’s the secret to getting rid of the feeling of overwhelm once and for all.
- Decluttering is the path to easy and joyful traveling.
- Declutter one thing a day. It might not be a big deal at the beginning, but it is definitely better than nothing.
- If more things kept coming in, then decluttering will become a waste of time. Pull back!
- “Do I really NEED this?” – a question you must ask yourself before buying a new thing.
- If you don’t have a compelling reason WHY you should declutter your home, then don’t declutter it!
- You don’t need any fancy organizational skills, just start decluttering and you’ll be advancing no matter what.
- When you start getting rid of unnecessary stuff, important stuff will automatically start finding their place.
- The less you have, the easier it is to organize.
- 10 minutes a day will keep the clutter away.
- The more items you declutter, the easier it becomes to declutter sentimental items that you no longer need.
- If you can’t sell, share. If you can’t share, donate. If you can’t donate, recycle. If you can’t recycle, dump. Just get rid of things you no longer need or use.
- In this world of overconsumption, we tend to forget what the word ‘need’ really means.
- In this life, we probably only need food, shelter, clothing, and love. Anything else is extraneous stuff.
- Colleen Madsen’s Declutter Decision Making Guide.
- Look around and declutter as you go. No need for intensive decluttering sessions.
- Have a departure point somewhere in your house to keep items you decided to get rid of. When you compile enough items, then you can sell, donate or recycle them.
What are you doing to make decluttering your home super easy for you? Please share your experience in the comments.
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Get rid of one thing a day. What a great idea! It makes decluttering easy, far less painful and probably much more effective. As a HUGE fan of doing things in small steps, I love this philosophy. I’m even going to give it a try. Thanks so much for sharing this!
It’s a great idea indeed. A very easy approach to decluttering. It doesn’t have to be difficult.
Colleen is a real inspiration and has helped so many people via her blog. Thanks Mohamed for this great interview!
Colleen is the queen of decluttering. She is one of the most caring people I’ve ever seen.
Thanks Megan, I appreciate your kind words.
I love the title Tohami ~ The Lazy Person’s Way to Declutter Your Home ~ I wish I had thought of that. I should use it as my by-line. Laziness can be an element of what gets us into a cluttered mess in the first place. If people think they can claw their way out of the mess lazily then they may be willing to give my method a try. Another angle to come from that is for sure.
Personally I would rather think of it as the Long Term Effective Approach. Taking one’s time, analysing each item, why it was acquired, why you bothered to keep it so long, what is your attachment to it can be helpful in breaking that attachment. Learning from past mistakes, freeing yourself from the desire to acquire, and vowing to never go back down that path again are all wonderful things.
And thank you for saying that I am a caring person. I hope that I always come across that way because I like to think I am. Like every person, I can put my foot in my mouth via the keyboard at times and I would hope that when I do I will be forgiven because 100% of the time I am striving to help people live a happier life with less.
You can definitely use the title as your by-line. You’re approach is the easiest by far. The most critical part after decluttering is, as you said, vowing to never go back down that clutter path again.
Such a great ideas to ,make decluttering very easy. I think that decluttering is very difficult task. Thanks for these valuable idea. Keep updating I will read regularly.