Stop Clutter Coming In

If you intend to declutter then one of the most important things you can do first is to plan how you are going to stay clutter free. Start today and stop new clutter coming into your life. Here is a list of the main clutter culprits and how to tackle them today

Paperwork
Stop junk mail. The Mailing Preference Service (MPS) is a free service that gives you control over the junk mail to your home or business.

Deal with the post immediately - starting today. Stand over the bin and dump all items that are not important. This includes things that you 'might look at someday', or that 'might be interesting'. When you are decluttered you might decide to keep some things like this. For the moment - no - you are focusing on decluttering not on increasing your workload by adding things to your piles.

Stop Buying
Until you are decluttered make it a rule that you will not buy any more 'things' unless they are absolutely essential to your existence. This obviously includes food. But how many other things that we buy are absolutely essential?

Cutting your purchases will help to stop any more 'clutter' coming into your life. You will also see how much more money you get to keep for the things in life that are really important to you


Stop taking other people's clutter
Some people are always accepting other people's clutter. Its the magpie effect - nice shiny new things that you can take to your own nest. Only your own nest is already full. Get your friends to take their surplus items to charity shops or car boot sales.

Unsubscribe to email lists
Email can be a big clutter issue. Make it a rule to stop subscribing to any more sites until you are clutter free. This will help your inbox. Also unsubscribe to as many lists as you can.

Unsolicitated calls
You can take yourself off any call lists and this will stop companies ringing you when they have not been invited. This kind of thing is clutter too. The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is a similar service for your phones (landlines AND mobiles). It really can cut out most of the unsolicited sales calls.

Stopping clutter coming into your home is really vital because it shows a commitment to getting and STAYING clutter free.  Sometimes people declutter their whole lives really effectively only to find that a year later they are back to square one.