Emergency Decluttering Tips – Get Your House Ready For Company In No Time!

Have you ever had it strike you suddenly that your house needs an EMERGENCY DECLUTTERING before your company arrives? You feel your blood pressure rising just LOOKING around. The house is a complete DISASTER, and you can’t bare to have anyone see it. How can you save yourself from the embarassment? What can you do with all the disorder in your house that looks so unattractive? There is only one thing you can do: start an emergency decluttering. Here are several ideas which may save your sanity and assist you with your emergency decluttering!

– Walk around your house and look for obvious and not-so-obvious GARBAGE! Get rid of doubles of things, and also packaging or boxes that you think that you’ll need IF you move “someday”. Be brutal and get rid of damaged items that you have been hanging onto for “sentimental reasons”. You won’t miss them.

– Fill up a box with items for a charitable organization, and then drop it off before you change your mind!

– Pack up your surplus of knick-knacks for an emergency decluttering of your coffee tables and selves. Even if you want to take them out again as soon as your visitors leave, this will present a much less cluttered look to your house.

– Lift everything off the floor in one room, wash the floor, and then only replace the things that actually belong there.

– Toss your old magazines, newspapers, and catalogues into the recycle bin. Now-a-days, almost everything is available online.

– Get some of those pretty decorative box sets. These are available all over the place these days and are very useful as they look both attractive and uncluttered where-ever you place them, and they are able to conceal numerous random “things”.

– Go through the bathroom and fill at LEAST a small box with hair-products, medications, make-up, and lotions which are share this information past their expiry date and toss them into the garbage.

– If you really need more cupboard space pick up a pantry cupboard with doors and set it along a wall. These make great closets, and you can store (or hide) a LOT of things on their shelves. Close the doors and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you declutter an area!

Sometimes, for whatever reason, you really need to do an emergency decluttering. Whether for emotional reasons such as your in-laws coming to stay next weekend, or because you happen to be all of a sudden completely through with being self-conscious about your disorganized house, these emergency decluttering tips can assist you to clear the clutter for good… or at least hide it nicely away for a quick fix!