Declutter Day: Five Quick Declutter Tips For Your Bedroom
Today is “declutter day” for the bedroom. Pick a bedroom, any bedroom. It can be one of your childrens or if you’re brave enough it can be yours. Every bedroom seems to be a natural magnet for clutter.
If you wonder why, just think about it. It is out of the way of guest traffic and easy enough to close the door instead of declutter or clean. A hallway with the doors to the bedrooms closed looks quite nice.
That being said, you just may be in need of the “turbocharged” decluttering system. Here are five quick declutter tips to make any bedroom look a little bit better right from the very start.
Step 1: Empty the waste basket.
Yes, it’s that simple. Of course, even you can see that it’s brimming over with trash.
Step 2: Straighten up those piles of books and magazines.
Don’t have time to put them away properly. Then just piling them up neatly and placing them along the wall will make the room appear much neater. Especially if they’re scattered all over the floor and the bed.
Step 3: Get a basket and use it for temporary storage.
This is especially helpful for a girls bedroom. Take all that stuff from makeup to earrings and necklaces and place it in a basket. Now you can actually see the dresser top (and you won’t step on any earrings lying around the floor). You actually haven’t solved the problem yet, but you’ve certainly tamed it some – and sometimes that’s all we can hope for.
Step 4: Make the bed.
A bed that is actually made helps a room look more organized and well, civilized. Even if you replace some of those books that your children are using back on the bed (perhaps you can arrange them a little nicer).
Step 5: Run The Vacuum Cleaner
Performing this one single task can make the room look vastly more decluttered and clean. It’s truly amazing. Of course, this isn’t so easy to do if there are a 100 items laying around the floor!
If unexpected company calls and you can do nothing else with a bedroom, run the sweeper quickly through the room (and by all the means, the rest of your house) Then stand back a moment before that doorbell announces them and view the difference with just that one small chore completed.
