For those who don’t follow my “Letters to My Daughter” posts on Embracing Beauty, I am pregnant. Very pregnant. Just as my nesting urge is kicking into high gear, my energy level is dwindling. That’s where today’s Clearing Closet Clutter advice comes from.
Usually, when I clean a closet I’ll pull everything out, go through the draining 20 question decluttering game with every item, run out of time, and throw everything back in.
Here’s a real life picture to show you the proof. This time, however, instead of shoving it all back in I just left it there. I had not only ran out of time but also energy.
My suggestion to share today is to divide and conquer. When you have a chunk of time sort through and organize your shoes, another time your purses, and so forth. Doesn’t that seem so much less daunting?
I’m pretty sure that I’m learning a lot of household organizing and cleaning lessons being pregnant. First, I learned how to Spring Clean in a Month and now I’ve learned this. What’s next?
Go here to view out previous tips to Clear Closet Clutter in 3 Weeks.
looks like my daughters’ room. except most of the “stuff” you have out would be 14839048329048325 stuffed animals. times 2 for 2 girls. 🙂
Like you when I clean I take everything out. And like you I get exhausted never wanting to finish. I’ve learned to do one thing at a time now and not throw it in the middle of a room.
I totally need to organize my son’s room. It’s like an explosion happened in there!
Taking it all out is a great idea but for me a lot of of work!! lol
OK, so I am all excited about following your closet posts, but I just started something similar on my site about love letters to my girls….so I am going to be following that along too. 🙂
Great tip – I really need to work on organizing our closets too! Seems I organize them and a week later they are a mess again!
this looks like my daughters room too! She has so many clothes it is so overwhelming!
I have two closets that I need to reorganize. I need to just pull everything out and start going from there.
I totally feel you on the nesting! I have SO many things to do to get this house ready for baby & it’s killing me that I can’t do half of them right now because we need to buy stuff or move furniture. Closet, I can do. 🙂
Every corner of this house is packed with clutter. Once we get one area cleaned up.. another area builds up. Ugh, work is never done. I love the idea of dividing and conquering! Will have to give that a try!
Great tip. I never think that I can get anything done if I just have a very short period of time, I tend to think I need all day… I’ll have to try this.
I never thought about doing it in phases like that. Makes sense and I think I’d be willing to devote a little time in chunks that way.