How to Get Rid of Clutter Fast

If you’re feeling overwhelmed and frustrated by the state of your home and wondering how to get rid of the clutter fast, then keep reading!

When you sit down on your couch after a long day, what do you see? If the answer is clutter, and lots of it, then it is time to take action and get rid of the clutter now!

Clutter has a way of slowly adding up and then completely taking over your house. Once it starts growing, it can easily get out of control. This guide will take you step-by-step on how to start to declutter your house when you are feeling overwhelmed and how to get rid of the clutter fast.

The Effects of Clutter

Being in a state of disorganization can feel overwhelming. Which came first, overwhelm or disorganization? It’s sometimes hard to tell. Whatever the answer is, being disorganized contributes to chaos in and out of the home.

Decluttering not only clears the clutter from your home, but it also helps in other areas of your life. If you’ve been feeling tired and overwhelmed with life, chances are you also have a lack of energy.

Related: Step by Step Guide to Cleaning Your Home When You’re Overwhelmed

The lack of energy makes it hard to do chores and tasks. Before long, there’s no food to make a complete meal, no one can find a clean pair of socks, and the bills are overdue.

Generally, being disorganized bleeds from one area of life into another. As one area becomes affected, it spreads into another until a sense of overwhelm, hopelessness, and helplessness sets in. Before long there are messes everywhere – literally and figuratively.

Keep in mind though, that some people are less organized than others. There’s nothing wrong with being messy or having a lifestyle that someone else might consider cluttered.

Not making your bed every morning doesn’t make you unorganized. If the lack of organization is causing problems in your family or you are avoiding important tasks at home because you can’t seem to get “it” together, decluttering may be very helpful for you.

How to Declutter your House

The best tip on how to get rid of clutter fast, is to take it one area of the house at a time. You will make so much more progress by moving from area to area, then you would if you tried to do every space at once.

Plus, getting to check items off your decluttering list is great motivation to keep going.

How to Get Rid of Paper Clutter

Lets first start with the massive accumulation of random papers that you probably have stored in different areas around your house. Once you start looking at everything, you’ll realize that most if it is junk that you can’t even remember why you kept in the first place.

To make this easy, get a couple Amazon boxes that you have sitting around and label them: Recycle, Shred and Sort.

This way, you can quickly go through things without feeling like you need to find a home for every scrap of paper. The box for recycling and shredding can get disposed of pretty quickly and you can go back through the sort pile at a different time.

Declutter the Bathrooms

Bathrooms are full of stuff you no longer need or use. So many different products we were so sure we were going to use. So many products that you hated but didn’t want to feel like you wasted money so you keep it buried in a drawer.

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• Medicine cabinet: First, dispose of any expired medicine/vitamins plus any that you no longer need or use. Once you’re left with what you actually need, put them back in the cabinet in this clear organizer. This way everything will be in its place plus you can easily see everything and take things out as needed.
• Old make-up: Go through all your make-up and get rid of the stuff you don’t ever use. You’ll be shocked at how much space you can clear out, plus it will be a lot easier to always find the products you do use all the time.
• Hair products: Toss out all the products you no longer use and re-organize the ones you need.
• Random toiletries: We’ve all got the drawer full of random stuff: hotel shampoos, face masks we thought we’d use faithfully, razors we discovered we hated. If you haven’t used it in the last 6 months, toss it.

My Favorite Bathroom Organization Products

My biggest tip for getting rid of the clutter and keeping your home clutter-free, is having good organization. These products are great for small or large bathrooms and will help keep everything in its place. And if everything has a place, then your products will get put away when you’re done using them, and your home will stay clean!

How to Quickly Start to Declutter the Bedroom

Master bedrooms seem to acquire a lot of clutter because it’s an easy room to hide things in. I find myself putting stuff on top of the dresser and nightstands and forgetting about them because I’m not looking at it all day long.

To start, grab your hamper, garbage bags, and a basket. The basket will be where you can quickly toss the stuff that doesn’t belong in your room. This way you can take the basket around your house and put all those items back where they belong.

• Pick through the items on your dresser and nightstands and throw away the trash
• Move dirty dishes to the kitchen
• Pick up all the dirty clothes and throw them in the hamper

To quickly start getting rid of the clutter in your bedroom that is causing you to lose space, open your closet door, and start purging.

• Get rid of clothes you haven’t worn in the last year.
• Toss shoes you no longer wear or shoes you bought and have never worn
• Toss old, ugly hangers

Just doing this small amount in your bedroom should be a huge help in making you feel more relaxed when you are in your bedroom.

Once you see how much better you feel with a cleaner space, it will help give you the motivation to do more.

My Favorite Bedroom Organization Baskets

If you haven’t noticed already, I LOVE BASKETS! They are a really simple solution to a lot of storage and organizational issues. Here are some of my favorites for the bedroom:

Linen Closet

• Old sheets
• Old towels

TIP: If you have a local animal shelter or rescue, they love getting these types of donations for the animals.

Clear the Clutter from The Living Room

The living room is often the source of a lot of clutter, making a space that should be relaxing, a space that makes you anxious.

This space may have become a catch-all for everyone’s stuff. Often times it’s stuff you don’t have a place for or you just don’t know where to put it.

Instead of focusing on that, let’s start with stuff that is easy to trash or donate. That way you will get a lot accomplished plus you’ll create new spaces for the stuff that needs to be put away.

• DVD’s, VHS & CD’s – Are you really going to ever use any of this? When is the last time you watched a DVD or a VHS? Do you even have a VCR? Bonus: If you have any of this stuff in a CD tower or something like it, get rid of that too. Donate it and enjoy the open space you’re creating.
• Books – I love books and I have a lot of them, but I go through them and get rid of ones that aren’t favorites. It’s crazy how much space this can free up. Donate everything you no longer want and let someone else enjoy it.
• Magazines – Old magazines and newspapers are nothing but space sucking dust collectors. Toss them all into the recycling bin – you can find all the same information online and that won’t mess up your house.
• Candles – For some reason, women seem to hoard candles, myself included. I used to keep them in case of power outages, but guess what? Whenever we have a power outage we use flashlights and NOT the candles I’ve been holding onto for 15 years. If you don’t use them or don’t like the scent, etc…get rid of them!

The Kitchen

Are you completely out of space in your kitchen? Are your cabinets bursting at the seems and your drawers having trouble closing?

Let’s start with the junk drawer or drawers. Everyone has them! The key is to routinely go through your junk drawers and get rid of the actual junk and re-organize what you actually need to keep. Otherwise, these drawers will quickly get out of hand.

If your drawer is mostly odds and ends, this drawer organizer is a great way to keep things neat and tidy and organized. This way, all those little pieces that often get lost, all have a home and are easy to find.

Kicking the Kitchen Clutter

After you have moved on from the junk drawer, it’s time to start in your cabinets and refrigerator.

Here are 5 types of kitchen items that you can get rid of quickly:

• Expired food in the fridge
• Old appliances – It’s so easy to become overrun with kitchen appliances because they’re so fun to buy and most only need to be used sporadically.
• Tupperware you no longer use or that is missing pieces
• Old mugs and travel cups
• Cleaning products you no longer need or use

Enjoy Getting Rid of the Clutter Fast

If you’ve been feeling anxious and overwhelmed by the clutter in your home, this guide should give you a really good start to decluttering room by room.

Once you get a start on the clutter, you can move on to going through more areas of your home and getting rid of more stuff you don’t need or want.

Related:Step by Step Guide to Cleaning Your Home When You’re Overwhelmed

So, how do you get rid of clutter fast? You start in one area and keep moving on until you have completely decluttered your home.

I hope these tips on how to declutter have been helpful. I know that it can be overwhelming and the hardest part is starting.

My best tip? JUST START SOMEWHERE! I usually recommend starting in a bathroom or a small space, because you can get that finished quickly. The sense of accomplishment from getting one space done is very motivating.

So, if you feel like you don’t know where to start, and you need motivation, start in your bathroom.

Happy Cleaning!

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