“There are three approaches we can take toward our possessions: face them now, face them sometime, or avoid them until the day we die”-Marie Kondo in her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

Marie Kondo is a famous expert on decluttering and organizing a clean home. If you’ve watched her Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” you know that she believes that decluttering your home is a major step to tidying up your home or business. In this article, we provide 4 tips to decluttering your home or business. We also use research in psychology to help you with this issue. 

The Mental Health Benefits of Decluttering Your Home or Business

There’s tons of research in psychology that suggests that there are many benefits to decluttering your home. For example, decluttering your home can alleviate depression and anxiety. It can also make you feel more confident and boost your self-esteem. 

Gretchen Rubin, a writer and expert on habits writes, “Getting in control of our possessions makes us feel more in control of our fates. If this is an illusion, it’s a helpful illusion–and it’s a more pleasant way to live.” What this means is that if you’re wanting to feel more in control of your life, a good place to start is by taking control of your home or business. Focusing on the issues around you is one way of getting a handle of other things. 

So, there are many benefits to decluttering your home. It’s just about being open to the process of decluttering.

4 Tips To Decluttering Your Home or Business 

Decluttering your home doesn’t have to be stressful and can actually be enjoyable if you begin to declutter with a growth mindset. A growth mindset is about having the type of mindset where you view challenges as opportunities to grow. That is, you don’t see challenges as obstacles to being successful. 

Keeping this growth mindset in mind, here are 4 tips to decluttering your home or business.

1. Put all of your items in a place where they’re visible

In Marie Kondo’s Netflix series, she recommends that you should take all of your belongings and put them in a large pile. The reason that this is so important and powerful is because seeing what we have helps us understand just how much we have. You start to understand that you might have way more than you need.

This also makes it easier to sort through the things that you have. 

2. Begin to ask yourself a series of questions related to the outcome you want

A lot of times, people tend to focus on things that they don’t want. For example, a question that they might ask themselves while they’re decluttering is “What should I get rid of?” 

But instead of focusing on what you don’t want, focus on what you do want. Examples of questions to ask yourself include:

• What type of home or business do I want?
• How do I want my home or business to be?
• What items bring me joy?
• What items do I use the most?
• How can I use the storage space that I already have?

Remember, the goal is to bring out the items that you like best or which you use the most often so that those items are the focus. 

3. Begin decluttering

Using the answers you get from the questions above, begin to declutter your home. As you declutter, think about moving as efficiently as possible. As Marie Kondo says, you might begin by placing items where they belong as you declutter. This means putting everything where you would like them to be. That way, you’re not waiting until the end to put things away. 

The reason why putting things in the place where they belong is so important is because this trains your brain. For example, one of the reasons why people end up with a messy home or business is because things aren’t placed in the areas where they belong. Instead, some people will wait for the last minute to put things away. This creates a bigger mess that will need to be dealt with. In cognitive psychology, this putting things away immediately follows the idea of the 5-minute rule.  The 5-minute rule is based on the idea that you should immediately work on anything that can get done in 5 minutes. This prevents having those missed 5-minutes resulting in many hours of work. 

4. Consider getting rid of the things you don’t need by using a dumpster

Often times, people choose to tidy up things by focusing on smaller items that they don’t need. When you’re tidying up your entire home, though, you’ll need to get rid of major items as well. That means furniture and other things. So, renting a dumpster would be beneficial to getting rid of minor and major items. 

Renting a dumpster would also be beneficial because your brain would think, “Hey, I have a dumpster that I’ve rented just to declutter my home. I better take advantage of this!” This means that you’re more likely to fully declutter rather than a semi cleaning. 

Canyon View Dumpsters Can Help You Declutter in the State of Utah

If you’re in the state of Utah, Canyon View Dumpsters can help you declutter your home or business. Our services include both residential and commercial dumpsters. We also offer recycling dumpsters. 

Contact us at 801-516-3825. You can also contact us here. We would love to help you with your home’s or business’ needs.