Quotes About Decluttering

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

I like to have things around me that I love. However, I'm not a hoarder and get rid of everything I don't need.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

Not sure what you use and what you don't? Here is a tried and true way to find out. Empty the contents of your kitchen utensil drawers into a cardboard box. For one month, only put a utensil back into the drawer if you take it out of the box to use it. At the end of the month seriously consider discarding everything that's still in the cardboard box. Face it: If it's still in the box after four weeks, you don't need it!

Now's the time to get rid of your first batch of malignant clutter. If you simply must have a reminder that this stuff was part of your life, take a picture of it, then tuck away the physical photo in a desk or stick the digital version deep into the belly of your computer. It's time to give this clutter to the world outside your home.

My husband always makes me go through what I'm not wearing and donate it, so the driveway is full of boxes.

I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

If you know what you have, you know what to throw away.

A TIDY SPELL" I've just been through a tidy spell, I tell you it's a verity, I've sorted out the things to keep, The things to give to charity. I've sorted out my ties and belts, I've sorted out my shirts, I've sorted out my coats and slacks--- To part with some it hurts. I've sorted out my shoes and socks, I've sorted out my shorts, I've sorted out so much, in fact, That now I'm out of sorts. -by Richard Armour

I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.

My partner and I weed through our bookshelves and throw stuff out regularly.

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

To have a regular system of giving away some of your stuff forces you to "take inventory" once in a while.

I am trying to Marie Condo the house starting with my books, although it's really hard to part with them! But I really want to de-clutter and get rid of stuff I haven't used for six months, whether it's clothes, bags, or shoes.

She loves throwing things out. At home alone during the week before she fell over all she did was throw things out – blouses, old dinner-sets, shoes, vases, mugs, sheets and rugs. It excited her to empty cupboards, to wipe down the empty shelves, to take the things we were throwing out to the tip, she loved our trips to the tip, her mind quickened at the prospect of the tip.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Julia decided to deep-clean the apartment.

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

On a basic level, there are three general methods to simplifying your life: stopping expansion, reining in your routine, and reducing clutter.

Why should I want to have a lot of copies of this and that lying around? Nothing but clutter in the office, a temptation to prying eyes, and a waste of good paper.

Getting rid of the clutter is not about letting go of things that are meaningful to you. It's about letting go of the things that no longer contribute to your life so you have the time and the energy and the space for the things that do.

There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.