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Researchers have found that women with messy/cluttered homes have higher levels of cortisol/stress.
Let’s face it, even though this blog is about positivity. There is nothing like a picked up and tidy house to clear the mind and help us think straight. I was turned on to a show called, ‘Get Organized with The Home Edit’ on Netflix and it was absolutely satisfying to watch! It was towards the end of the school year, and once summer hit I sent my babies to daycare for a couple weeks and I organized my entire house! It was the best thing I ever did for my family and I because we weren’t weighed down by stuff anymore.
Why decluttering your house is so important
I have heard someone say that everything we own actually takes up space in our brains because we have to mentally manage it. Why do you think minimalists are always so happy?! They are FREE! We don’t realize how weighed down we can be by STUFF. The first step to organizing our house is to declutter the items that we don’t have to manage anymore.
No matter where you are in your decluttering journey, every little bit counts, and it can feel like you lost 20 pounds once you get rid of just 10 articles of clothing. It’s something that makes you finally feel like you’re in control of something. I started decluttering and home editing the year that my dad died, and while it doesn’t make the pain of loss any better there was a peace I had because of my organized and clutter free home.
Top Tips of How to Declutter Your Home
- Don’t treat your home like a storage unit
- Realize that what you keep will COST you
- Ask yourself if it’s, “The best, the favorite, or necessary”
- Ask yourself if it sparks joy
- Keep a Donate box in your closet
- Practice one-in-one out
- Turn the hanger
- Declutter by area
- Go on a decluttering binge
- Ask yourself if you’d buy it now
- Pretend you’re moving
- Remember what your gain by letting go
- Don’t buy containers or organizers until Your Purge
- Use the Amazon Box Method of decluttering
- Bring EVERYTHING out and sort it through
Books that Help You Get Organized and Declutter Your Home
- Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
2. Declutter like a Mother by Allie Casazza – A book explaining why decluttering calms anxiety in your heart and lessens tension in your relationships. How to ensure your house is working for you, not against you. Why kids thrive when they’re not overwhelmed with options. How to make time, when you feel you don’t have time to declutter.
3. The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals
My personal favorite! This book is from the stars of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, here is an accessible, room-by-room guide to establishing new order in your home.
4. Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
Fumio Sasaki is also Japanese like Marie Condo, and he is walking us through his life as a minimalist. It explains the freedom he has found and how we can have that too!
Honestly, when we have less stuff we tend to not be so materialistic and have a lot less to “manage” when we get home. It’s a win-win for our kids, our husbands, and our whole family for that matter. If you want to live your best life, drowning in your own STUFF and everyone else’s isn’t the way to do it. Lets declutter one room and a time, and see what it does for just our mental health alone.