Home organizing professionals share how to make micro-decluttering a daily habit.
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Do you get overwhelmed by messes but always have piles of miscellaneous stuff to tackle?
Anyone can benefit from micro-decluttering, but it is especially helpful when you struggle with motivation and organization.
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What Is Micro-Decluttering and How Is It Different?
Then, there ismicro-decluttering, where you organize one small section of micro-clutter during a 5- to 10-minute session.
While Eilers promotes micro-decluttering throughout your day, there are other intentional methods of handling micro-clutter.
But there are also tangible benefits when you make micro-decluttering a part of your daily habits.
Reduces the Urge to Procrastinate
Perhaps the biggest perk of micro-decluttering is that its easy to donow.
Its easier to set aside 10 minutes than 3 hours.
Also, small steps can lead to big progress.
Eilers agrees and believes the biggest benefit of micro-decluttering is the freedom from being stuck in paralysis by analysis.
While standardorganizing practicetypically involves just one category placed within a single vessel.
For Murphy and Hagmeyer, the main benefit of micro-decluttering is preventing these small items from getting lost.
Additional separation means your categories are clear and will never be at risk of blending together.
Heres how you could build a micro-decluttering habit or tackle problem areas in a short designated session.
Eilers suggests asking yourself the following questions as you see items in your day-to-day living.
This mantra will prevent little messes from accumulating in your home each day.
And it will also prevent decluttered items from finding their way back into your home.
While in the process, keep decisions simple.
For example: keep or dont keep.
Just put them in the bin or designated area.
Eilers explains that you should probably be honest with yourself when choosing to keep an item.
Is it something that serves who you are today?
Is it something you are hanging on to just because it found its way into your home?
Measure the larger bin or drawer before purchasing any additional organizing products to ensure it will fit nicely within.
Lastly, it helps to add small labels to each sub-category when its not clear what belongs where.
