Decluttering: 50 Minimalism Ways and Strategies to Declutter your Home and Life

Decluttering

50 Minimalism Ways and Strategies to Declutter your Home and Life

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Changing your mindset

Changing perspectives

Let go of things

Purchase mindfully

Create personal boundaries

Take a second opinion

Utilize your imagination

Count your blessings

Expand your Quiet Time

Chapter 2: Actualizing your mindset

Create a sanctuary

Organize your space

Use the four box method

Experimenting with numbers

Manage Holiday Excess

Take the 12-12-12 program

Making a list

Keep Surfaces Clean

Make your bed

Streamline your wardrobe

Shorten the to-do list

Indulge less

Plan your Meals

Clean your Car

Fill one trash bag

Designate a Launchpad

Labeling

Chapter 3: Monitoring the online experience

Place a Limit on Social Media

Clean out the Inbox

Spend less time online shopping and on delivery services

Set up ad blocks

Avoid impulse buys online

Cut down on the apps

Chapter 4: Paying attention to other elements in life

Go outside more often

Reward yourself

Get Some Team Help

Hold the family to the same standards

Be in the present moment

Accept Kid Clutter but not from Teens

Check the Expiration Dates and Clean the Medicine Cabinet

Skip the Aisle for wholesale Materials

Think in the classic space

Consistency is a Priority

Purchasing storage options

Establish a system of rituals

Chapter 5: Implementation continued

Deal with Mail with Immediate Effect

The Memory Box

Identify Clutter Creeping

Use the one for one match rule

The Oprah Winfrey Closet Hanger Experiment

One year rule

Conclusion

Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, Decluttering: 50 Minimalism Ways and Strategies to Declutter Your Home and Life. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to reduce the clutter, minimize the belongings that you may have and provides a way to organize thoughts to result in a more fulfilling and simplistic lifestyle. Several barriers may prove inhibitory to minimalism, key among them, resistance to change. Change may be hard as we have become attached to routines and things. We allow our homes and minds to become storage spaces for every passing fancy and in the process, we get so busy trying to attain these objects that we end up not having time to enjoy that which we have already accumulated.

The corporations can be afforded some of the blame but truth be told they are just doing what they were created to do. That would be to make sure the products are out of their shelves and in our homes. It does not matter what trick they use to distract or misdirect as long as they achieve their objective and they do not care about your general wellbeing. Once the truth of the last statement is internalized you can start to think about how to regain your life back from the very things that have kept you prisoner within your space for a very long time. It sounds like the logical thing to do by living with less considering it will mean less to clean, less debt which means less stress. Overall that would mean more energy and money to go around. That would imply that many people are actually ready to minimalize but they usually get stumped by the next step which is where to begin. Then you end up with several individuals who are of the mindset that they can and should survive with less but they are literally trapped by everything that they have. This leads to being overwhelmed and defeated by the very idea. The journey of de-cluttering needn’t be as hard as most would make it out to be.

Minimalism is the absolute opposite of consumerism whose philosophy is to entertain yourself with anything that you would