5 Practical Tips For De-Cluttering Your Home

Managing our homes can be an everyday battle that most of us our losing. Keeping things in its proper places can be much of a drag especially if you have a lot of stuff inside your home.

Marie Kondo, the author of the bestselling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing offers life-changing tips on how to de-clutter and have a clean and spacious home.

Here are 5 easy tips to bear in mind from Parent's Brooke Bunce, adopted from Kondo's method - as you start de-cluttering your home:

1. Recycle, recycle, recycle!
Evaluate what you still have in your drawer and re-organize it. Repurpose old shoe boxes, plastic tins or iPhone boxes to make compartments inside your drawer in the kitchen, bedroom or the kid's playroom. The rule is not to buy new stuff for your home improvement project. 

2. Establish a Folding Method to Organize Your Clothing
Adopt the Kon Mari way of folding and you'll be surprised how much space you'll save. To know how to do it, try this T-shirt folding method.

3. Involve Your Family 
To maximize the potential of you this project, assign each member of your family to do a certain de-cluttering task. It is also a fun way to get kids to start fixing their bedrooms and toys in their playrooms.

4. Make Use of Free Services
After you have sorted out the ones your family no longer need, consider donating these stuff to shelters and foundations. You may also opt to avail of free online tidying up services. Bunce suggests that you can go look up sites like thredup.com; "the site will give you a free cleanout kit, which you can send back free of charge. Any items they can't take, they'll donate."

5. Take It One Day at a Time
Progress takes time and you have to be patient with yourself as you journey on into this de-cluttering project. Having mini goals per day will help you reach the ultimate goal of a clutter-free home. The process of letting go of the stuff you no longer need is a nice practice towards simplicity and contentment. Enjoy every bit of it! Before you knew it, you'll find yourself enjoying your home, minus the clutter.