30 Ways To De-Clutter Your Entire Life

This is a list of how you can de-clutter your life. I am not saying that you should do all of them. I certainly did not choose to do all of these from the list. Some people will not feel comfortable doing some of these such as point 19 ~ When buying a new shirt, donate one or two from your closet. This list is just a guide, an idea, to inspire people other ways to de-clutter their life.

1. When buying electronics download the manual and store it in icloud.
2. Enlist the rule of five every time you clean. Whenever you are cleaning a room, get rid of at least five items, whether it's a piece of trash, old magazine or just something you haven't used for ages.
3. Hang your bags with shower curtain hooks
4. Utilise your under desk space
5. Make the kids a stuffed animal pen with bungee cords
6. When cleaning the bedroom always make the bed first
7. Clean out your fridge and freezer once in a while
8. Limit your closet to 40 hangers
9. Cut down your closet by asking yourself "If I were shopping right this second, would I buy this?" If the answer is no, out it goes
10. Corral cords with a sock
11. Use compartmentalised boxes for small things you need to keep organised, like batteries
12. De-clutter your Facebook feed
13. Fold your bed sheets up and stuff them in a matching pillowcase
14. Hang your mail holder on the side of a table or kitchen counter
15. Always open your mail next to the recycling bin so you can immediately purge junk mail
16. Hang your lesser used cords on command hooks on the inside of your cupboard
17. For the garage or backyard, hang a basket so you can wrap the hose around it and keep the sprinkler inside the bucket.
18. Run a power strip through the back of a nightstand so you can charge your gadgets out of sight
19. When you buy a new shirt, donate one or two from your closet
20. Put your cosmetics into palettes
21. Use a pegboard or zip ties underneath your desk to keep your wires neat
22. Keep your discount cards virtually on your phone with the Key Ring app
23. Find ways to get rid of old books. ~ (1) Donate any children's books that the kids have outgrown to a local library. (2) Give nooks away to family and friends you believe would enjoy them. (3) Sell your old textbooks for a little extra cash. (4) For cookbooks, only keep the ones with a large number of recipes you plan on making. If there's only a couple useable recipes, photocopy them and keep them in a binder and give the cookbook away.
24. Keep your cleaning supplies in a mobile bucket caddy
25. Use hooks not towel bars
26. Wrap the cords around your unused appliances and secure with velcro
27. Get rid of your board games and puzzle boxes and keep them in bins instead
28. Use your iPhone or iPad as a pocket scanner with Genius Scan
29. Limit your dish sets to two or three more than the required place setting
30. Spread your minimalist lifestyle by only giving gifts that people can use.