The Benefits of Decluttering Your Home

With the holidays quickly approaching, it makes sense to want to get your home looking and feeling warm, cozy and inviting. So, besides some plush blankets, decorations and cinnamon spiced candles, how else can you make your home more comfortable for you and your family, as well as any guests that may be visiting this year? The key to a happy home is a tidy home, which if you’ve ever caught an episode of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, you know how big of a difference a less cluttered home can make. Now is the best time to start decluttering your space, so that it’s ready to wow your guests this holiday season, but that’s not all. You may find that the benefits of decluttering your home are more plentiful than you ever realized.

Decluttering Reduces Stress

The last thing you want to do is rummage through drawers trying to find what you’re looking for or trip over items that are strewn across the floor on your way out of the house. This not only increases your risk for injury, it also makes for an extremely stressful home dynamic. When there’s too much stuff to look at, your brain goes into overload mode, causing stress, anxiety and an all-out bad mood. Do yourself a favor and start going through these items room by room, tossing, selling or donating what you don’t need anymore.

Decluttering Helps You Locate Lost Items

Closets and kitchen drawers, especially, are where things can get hidden forever. In clearing out these spaces, you’re able to locate items you may have been looking for, or it may just prove that you’re able to live without certain items altogether. If you haven’t even thought about those boots you bought ages ago, maybe it’s time you donated them to the area shelter. The same goes for the kitchen, as we tend to accumulate a lot of gadgets to aid us in creating our culinary masterpieces. If you have yet to use that avocado slicer you bought two years ago, maybe someone else can take it off your hands and give it a good home.

Decluttering Improves Air & Sleep Quality

Think about all the dust that has the chance to accumulate over a mound of clothes at the bottom of the closet floor or the box full of junk in the corner. Clutter is a breeding ground for allergens, and the more stuff you cram into the home, the more places that dust and dirt can hide. Improve the air quality in your home by clearing out the clutter. In doing so, you’ll get to enjoy a cleaner home, which as we mentioned above, leads to less stress. This, in turn, leads to a better night’s sleep.

Other Decluttering Benefits

There’s always a good reason to declutter, but if you need a few more, here are some more reasons why it pays to declutter. Decluttering:

·         Makes the home easier to clean

·         Boosts productivity

·         Allows you to find items with ease

·         Limits distractions

As you can see, decluttering has a lot more benefits associated with it than just making the home look good. So, this holiday season, do yourself a favor and take charge of your clutter. Start small, maybe one corner of a room, and go from there. You’ll be amazed at how great it’ll make you