Easy Tips To Keep Your Surfaces Clutter-Free
Are you tired of your surfaces accumulating endless clutter?
Surface clutter adds to visual clutter and can be very frustrating…
Taking steps to ensure you’re surfaces stay clean and organized can overall help you to maintain a decluttered home and ease tons of stress.
In this post, we’ll cover some simple tips to keep your countertops clear of clutter!
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How Do Your Surfaces Get Cluttered?
As time passes, your surfaces can accumulate clutter in various ways…
Here are some of the common items that seem to stick around and clutter up your countertops:
- Excess paperwork
- Random items
- Things we use but don’t put away
Easy Tips To Keep Your Surfaces Clutter-Free
Create Systems
Creating systems for your home can give you a streamlined way to ensure your clutter is sorted and goes where it needs to!
Start by making sure everything has a home…
Here are some example systems for your clutter:
- Mail System: Place mail in a designated area (such as a mail organizer or office desk) and establish a process for sorting through it. Sort through immediately if you pick a time to go through it. Ensure that it has a home and isn’t left on your countertops.
- Box System/Rule: If you have items that seem to stay on your surfaces, but you’re not quite sure where to put them or if you need them, grab a few boxes and add your questionable items. Place your boxes in a storage area for 3-6 months, and after that time, if you find that you don’t use or need those items, consider donating, trashing, or possibly selling items from your boxes.
- Storage System: Continue with the theme of making a home for your surface clutter and ensure you have adequate hidden storage to place these items. Under-sink organizers help to store cleaning supplies and other common-use kitchen and bathroom items.
Determine What’s Essential
Another important aspect of keeping your surfaces clutter-free is to determine what you want to remain on your countertops.
Consider your different rooms and your current surface clutter:
- Office
- Living Room
- Kitchen Counter
- Night stands
- Dressers
- Bathroom
Once you know what you want/need on your surfaces, it becomes much easier to remove the excess and relocate/trash the extra clutter.
Be Careful Organizing Instead of Decluttering
Organization is great when used to tidy up a space, but it becomes detrimental when you start to organize clutter that should actually be removed or sorted through first.
Ensure you look to declutter an area first, before looking for ways to organize…
Once you have decluttered to your desired amount, then organization tools make sense and add the finishing touches.
Aggressively Declutter Excess
Ultimately, you’ll want to use your best judgment to relocate, trash, or keep clutter on your surfaces.
If it’s something useful, most of the time it will be something you’ll relocate. Don’t be afraid to be aggressive and start your decluttering by completely removing everything from your surfaces and going through your clutter by category.
Sort through your items like this:
- Trash
- Paper clutter
- Miscellaneous items
- Sentimental items
This allows you to sort through the easy stuff and work your way up to the harder items. Once you’ve determined that you want to remove certain items from your counters, consider where to relocate them…
Relocate items to:
- Drawers
- Under-sink areas
- Storage
- Cabinets
- Shelves
Final Thoughts
Keeping your surfaces clutter-free is incredibly rewarding and, when sustained, enables your home to remain clean and tidy with minimal effort.
Good luck, and if you feel intimidated, focus on the positives and how much better you’ll feel once your visual clutter is eliminated!
