For me decluttering and organising helps me bring clarity to my home. After a stressful week when I get home I don’t want to look at areas that are also making me feel stressed. Our lives are busy and hectic enough for most of us without feeling it when you eventually sit down of an evening.
I want to sit down in my home and like what I am looking at. We are in still the midst of doing up our home so its even harder to keep it in order but the areas that are completed are sorted and organised allowing us to utilise that room with ease and comfort.
I will give you an example of why it’s important to me to be organised and clear of clutter.
So at the moment there is constant dust everywhere in the house due to ceilings being down, wood being cut etc. I am constantly cleaning the areas that have been completed in the house so they continue to look nice.
Now if I was to have lots of stuff on the work tops in the kitchen (which is completed) and on the sideboards I would be for ever lifting and moving things from one spot to the other in order to the clean the surface. Don’t get me wrong I do have things on my worktops but I have things that I use everyday.
So what I don’t have are items that don’t really have a home and aren’t used. This is classed as clutter. its not a bad thing to have because most people are too busy in their lives due to work commitments, children, grandchildren or even caring for others to worry about whats on their worktops but I can assure you that once you’ve hit those problem areas life at home becomes so easy.
I have open shelves in my kitchen and the only wall unit I have in there is Glass so everything in it has to look visibly pleasing and is used maybe not everyday but its used at some point. On the shelves I have everything in storage jars that are labelled, who knew there were so many rices LOL oh and tea bags that all look the same, Mint, Rooibus, Earl Grey??? Labelling my jars allows me to see exactly what I’m running out of and stops me from blind buying when I do the food shop. If you blind buy you end up getting things that you already have and you then need to find a space to store it? However if you buy in bulk the utility if you have one is a room to store bulk buys.