If you can put the items away in that room you find them in, then do so immediately. Completely tidy that room before starting on the next room. To keep yourself from going in circles, and not finishing any room completely, focus on tidying up one room at a time. When you're working on tidying you're not really cleaning, as in you aren't washing, scrubbing, dusting or vacuuming anything, but instead are just picking up stuff off the floor, flat surfaces, etc., and putting the items back away in their designated storage spots wherever they go in your home. Tidying up is really as simple as it sounds, and if you do it regularly I've found it also takes a lot less time than you might imagine. It's really amazing how well the two practices work together! What To Do In Your Daily Tidy Up Routine
STOP IT AND TIDY UP FREE
Once you develop both the habit of decluttering, and the habit of tidying up daily, your home will become clutter free and then stay that way. So the daily decluttering missions removes the clutter from your home that you should never deal with again, and then the daily tidying routine maintains that area's clutter free status, by putting away the things that have been pulled out, but need to be put back away. You wouldn't actually declutter those things (i.e., remove them from your home), but instead you'll spend time putting those items away! In other words, you'll tidy them up. The mail will go one place, the kitchen utensil another, and the dishes in another. Instead, you've got to get in the habit, once you've cleared off the clutter from your counters, to make a regular and continuous practice of re-clearing those counters off from now on, so it never returns to that extremely cluttered state, and that each time you clear it off it doesn't take nearly as long as that first time did.Īs you re-clear off the kitchen counters day by day, most of the time the stuff that lands on them does have a real home.
My response is, "of course you can't! I agree!" Can you imagine keeping clear counters, or any flat surface, all year without any maintenance work on it? No, it would be a disaster. One of the first Declutter 365 missions on the calendar each year is to declutter your kitchen counters.Įach year, when I run that mission in January, I inevitably hear from someone who says, "I can't clear off my kitchen counters once a year and expect them to stay that way!" The easiest way to show how these two practices work together is to give you an example. When used in tandem, decluttering and tidying up work together to give you the home you desire, because decluttering clears away the junk and tidying keeps it from getting re-cluttered and turning into disarray again. How Decluttering & Tidying Up Work Together To Give You The Home You Desire Therefore, the key distinction between decluttering and tidying is that when you declutter an object it is removed from your home, and if you tidy up an object you put it back into its designated spot, keeping it in your home for use again later. That means, for example, if you find something in the drawer that you do want to keep, and its not clutter, but it belongs on a shelf instead of in that drawer, you'd tidy up the drawer by removing that object and putting it back where it actually belongs in your home. On the other hand, the term "tidy up" means to put the item back, into its designated spot, or to put it away. When I ask you to "declutter" an area of your home what I'm asking you to do is to look at the objects in that area, such as a drawer, and remove from that space, such as the drawer, any items that don't belong in your home, at all, and physically remove them from your home completely by donating, selling, or trashing (or recycling) them.
To help you understand why tidying up your home daily and consistently is such an important habit, it will help for you to understand what I mean by the term, and how it differs from decluttering. What Is The Difference Between Tidying & Decluttering?
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