Spring is in the air, and spring cleaning is all about getting rid of clutter! It is, after all, the first step to home organization. But how do you declutter your home? By following this simple, three step process in every room of your home.

You will need three boxes (large ones if you have a lot of clutter), a trash bag, an egg timer, a permanent marker, and a lot of self control.

Mark one box “Keep,” one box “Give Away,” and one box “Trash.” Line the trash box with a trash bag. Set your egg timer for one hour, and go!

Start with the door way to the room, and work clockwise.

Anything you are going to keep goes in the keep box. Anything you are going to give away goes in the give away box. Anything that needs to be tossed goes in the trash box.

Don’t second guess yourself.

Go with your first instinct. Your goal is to be done with this room in one hour! Don’t dawdle!

When you are finished with the room, or your timer goes off, it’s time to take care of your boxes.

Dispose of the trash.

Take the give away box immediately to your car and put it in the trunk to take to your favorite charity or thrift store. (This way you can’t change your mind about keeping any of it!)

Then, it’s time to take care of the Keep box. Take the Keep box around your home depositing items in the room they belong, putting them in their place.

If it is a room you haven’t decluttered yet, place the item in the room where it will be out of the way until you have a place for it. By the time you are finished decluttering your home you will have a place for everything, I promise!

If your timer hasn’t gone off yet, you did a great job!

If it has, reset it for fifteen minutes. Kick back and relax, and glory in what you have accomplished! When the timer goes off a second time, it’s time to get back to work by moving on to the next room or finishing the one you started.

Depending on the amount of clutter in your home and the size of your home, it may take several days or a week of this process to declutter your home.

However, it will happen, and when you are finished you will have a clean, organized home with a place for everything and everything in its place.

What a wonderful feeling!

Kurien "Abe" Abraham is the owner of DiscoverOrganization.com and helps thousands of people create better, more organized lives without stress and chaos.

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