Believe it or not, an unclean home can destroy your life! It can make you feel overwhelmed and depressed. Developing good clutter control habits will help to keep you from feeling depressed.
Keep the following tips in mind when making new daily habits. If you keep an homemaking journal then write these tips down and read them daily until this is a way of life for you.
First and foremost thing, dont crowd your house with attractive materialistic house-hold things sold out in the market.. Before buying any house-hold furniture, table, chairs, or anything for that matter, think twice whether its really necessary or question yourself whether you can survive without it. Keep your house with less amount of things.. This way your house will look neat and spacious.
1. Don't let piles build up. Throw away things, unwanted bills, papers, magazines when you are done with them.
2. Deal with the things as they come into the house. Toss the junk mail, file the bills, set the personal mail on your desk and read and respond as soon as possible.
3. Set times each day to walk around the house and put things into their correct place. Always have a place for all the items in your house.. So, make a spot for all items that you have. If the items are keepers then make sure you have a shelf or box to deal with each item. There will be no question as to where something goes if it every item has a predefined place.
4. Throw away anything that you really do not need and is not worth making a place for. Remember you can't keep every piece of art work, or every issue of your favorite magazine, or every recipe that you print out. If it has value to you then make a file to keep the work and keep only the important ones. Buy few boxes to keep the magazines and the recipe printouts so that they dont lie scattered across the home. Figure out the things you really want and give away the rest.
