The year 2021 turned out to be the one when I started looking at stuff as just the facilitator of life and not as something that controlled my life. I gave a lot of my stuff away in donations or as gifts. I also shifted towards living a paperless lifestyle wherever possible and managed to … Read more
As I started embracing decluttering and minimalism more, I happened to realize where I had been failing in my endeavour to achieving a clutter-free home prior to that. The fact that I have always looked at my home as a storage space and not as a living space led me to leave it cluttered all … Read more
Decluttering is hard and can seem a lot overwhelming at times. You are always struggling to let go of your possessions because there are sentiments involved. Decluttering also requires you to make decisions about what stays and what goes which can sometimes be emotionally exhausting. Sometimes, the amount of clutter you have been holding on … Read more
You cannot talk about decluttering without mentioning the digital devices that have taken over our lives in the last 15 years or so. With all the time that you spend on your PC and mobile device, they are bound to get cluttered over time. Digital clutter, after a while, gets out of control if left … Read more
How often do you open the door of your refrigerator in a day? 10 times? 15 times? 25 times? Or more? A refrigerator door in any home gets opened more frequently than the door of a kitchen, cupboard, a bedroom closet or any other shelf. While most of the time it happens out of habit, … Read more
Despite being one of the most important areas of your house, a pantry often gets overlooked when it comes to decluttering. It’s this corner of your home that carries all the eating essentials and yet gets ignored because you believe that there’s nothing to declutter. Everything in the pantry is useful – the spices, the … Read more
When you start taking decluttering seriously, you develop a habit of doing every task in the most efficient way possible. When you will spot a piece of clothing lying on your bed, you will just know where it’s supposed to go. And when you will see an item of décor or an eye-catchy footwear on … Read more
It’s easy to put off the task of decluttering your bathroom closet because it doesn’t take much time. You don’t feel the urgency to get rid of unwanted items sitting in your bathroom closet because you feel you can do it any day. And although you’ve been planning to do it for a long time, … Read more
For the longest time, I have struggled with the basic tasks of decluttering. Letting go of unwanted knick-knacks. Getting rid of old and expired medicines. Clearing off the flat surfaces. I would rather convince myself that I just didn’t have the time to declutter rather than facing the fact that I wasn’t willing to go … Read more
2 years ago, if someone would have told me that there are spiritual and mental health benefits attached to being clean and organized, I would have laughed at it. In fact, I could easily debate it. I was living my best life back then without being ‘clean and organized’. Little did I know that there … Read more