Organizing Your Home in the New Year
Set yourself up for success this year! Decluttering, cleaning, and organizing your home can reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep, and boost productivity. Here are some tips to help you organize your home and start the new year off right.
Make a Plan
Set a decluttering and organizing timeline with specific goals and when you plan to have them finished. You don’t have to get it all done in a day. Set goals that are manageable so you’re more likely to complete them.
Prepare boxes for things to donate, sell, and trash. Sometimes it’s hard to decide what to do with certain items. Before you begin, establish a plan for these situations. If the item doesn’t have sentimental value and you haven’t used it in the last year, get rid of it.
What will you do with items you decide not to keep? Where will you donate items? How will you get junk to the local landfill? You can make it easy on yourself and find a reputable junk removal company to get rid of everything.
Clear Out Storage Spaces
The first areas you should organize are storage spaces, such as:
● Attic
● Basement
● Garage
● Shed
These often-forgotten spaces accumulate a lot of unnecessary stuff. Maybe you have unused sports equipment collecting dust or it’s time to cut down on the holiday decorations.
Clearing out unused, broken, and old items makes room to store things currently cluttering the living spaces in your house.
Declutter Main Rooms
Once you’ve cleared out your storage spaces, you can move on to organizing the main rooms in your home and decide what to keep, what to store, and what to get rid of. Keep or store only what you need and regularly use. Toss the rest.
Here are some things you can eliminate in each room to help make space and organize your home.
● Bedroom closet: Clothes that don’t fit or are excessively worn, and clothes you don’t wear anymore.
● Children’s room: Toys that are broken, missing pieces, or not played with anymore.
● Living room: DVDs, CDs, and video games no one uses.
● Office: Outdated or broken electronics and unnecessary papers.
● Kitchen: Appliances that are broken or no longer used.
● Bathroom: Old/expired toiletries, makeup, and medicines.
After you’ve removed the unnecessary items, clean and organize what you have decided to keep.
Get Rid of the Junk
After decluttering, you’ll have a lot of junk to get rid of including large items, electronics, and maybe appliances. Municipal trash services will not typically collect this kind of trash. You could haul it to the landfill, but that takes time and energy and you’ll need a truck. Or, you could call a professional junk removal company, like Go Junk Free.
Go Junk Free hauls away large piles of junk for the guaranteed lowest price. We’ll take items regular trash collection won’t. We also donate and recycle over 80% of what we pick up, making us America’s Greenest Junk Removal Service.
