THIS COMPETITION HAS CLOSED. THE WINNER IS TRACEY PEACH FROM CAMBRIDGESHIRE. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ENTERED AND YOUR GREAT DECLUTTERING TIPS!
Earlier this month I told you all about HomeSense opening their fab new branch in Taplow. Well to celebrate, I have teamed up with HomeSense to offer you lucky readers the chance to win a £100 HomeSense gift card! (UK residents only)
If you’re unaware of who HomeSense are, where have you been?! 😉 They are the sister brand of TK Maxx, selling the most coolest, quirkiest homewares and gifts. They also sell practical stuff too. On the HomeSense launch day I got these drawer organisers and glass jars, with the aim to do a spot of decluttering.
I was fed up of packets of pasta cluttering up my kitchen cupboard, the packets never resealed properly and I was always finding rogue pastas at the back. And as for my kitchen drawers, I couldn’t even see what was in there!
BEFORE:
So I cleared a shelf on my bookshelf to make a display of pasta jars, and sorted out that kitchen drawer!
AFTER:
It’s so much easier to find things now, it makes me so happy!
So, now for the bit you’ve been waiting for – how do you enter the competition? Well, I want you to tell me your best decluttering tip! Think of one, and click here to enter via Rafflecopter:
You have until close of play Friday 20th November to enter. Good luck!
Sabrina x
This competition is open to UK Residents Only.
Terms & Conditions: There is 1 prize of a £100 HomeSense Gift Card – the prize is non-transferable and no cash alternative is offered. Closing date is 11.59pm 20th November 2015. The winner will be selected randomly via Rafflecopter.com from all valid entries and be notified by Twitter and email. The winner will have 28 days to respond before a new winner is selected. HomeSense will be sending out the winning gift card. Open to all UK entrants aged 18 or over only.
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I have a lot of empty beauty subscription boxes which I find really useful for putting things in and they stack nicely in the cupboard.
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The first step to decluttering is to stop buying ‘stuff’!
I had a drawer of random ‘stuff’ which is now tidied into little boxes like the one you posted.
Everything has a place :0)
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My best de-cluttering tip I have has to be if you’re not sure about keeping something (or haven’t used it in the past 6 months) then get rid! I’ve kept too many things for too long ‘just in case’
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Prepare 3 boxes named keep, throw and charity to motivate you! x
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If you have not used it in the last 12 months then bin it! but then you can guarantee you will need within the next 3 months 😉 x
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Keep on top of it, have one morning a week where you go through one room & have a good sort out 🙂
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Create a “maybe” box. Sometimes when you’re going through a pile of stuff, you know exactly what to keep (the stuff you love and use) and what to trash or donate. But then there’s the stuff you don’t use, but think you might want it or need it someday. You can’t bear to get rid of that stuff! So create a “maybe” box, and put this stuff there. Then store the box somewhere hidden, out of the way. Put a note on your calendar six months from now to look in the box. Then pull it out, six months later, and see if it’s anything you really needed. Usually, you can just dump the whole box, because you never needed that stuff.
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stop buying
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If you’re running out of cupboard space, put some shelves up and it forces you to keep the shelves tidy as they’re on display 🙂
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I normally store all my wintery stuff away during the summer months and the same during the winter. I have lots of plastic storage boxes that stack up nicely on each other out of the way and help keep things from going a bit musty. Anything that I have not used in a year gets taken to the charity shop or binned.
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STOP buying more things you don’t need use up what you have,also if you havent used an item for 2 months,throw out or giveaway
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I re-purpose empty glas jars to keep things like nails and skrew in. Keeps everything tidy.
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Fold up bedding sets into one of the pillow cases, meant everything is all together in one place so no hunting for matching pillow cases and sheets.
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I really need to improve my clutter. Sometimes an out of sight out of mind mentality is what I have and it isn’t very good! #HomeEtc
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Do a little and often rather than letting it all build up. Once a month, have a small declutter of one room and it makes it much more manageable.
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putting things away as soon as you’ve finished or dealt with them instead of leaving them. Makes a huge difference!
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clean up as you go along that way you wont be overrun with clutter
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Do it when your husband and children are out of the house!
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To make room for winter clothes , store all your summer clothes in the vacuum seal bags , saves alot of space and keeps them fresh
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Don’t try and do it all at once – just try and clear one surface or drawer a day
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Don’t try and do it all at once – just clear one surface or drawer a day
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Two things – 1. If you’ve not used something for more than a year, it needs to go, and 2. Don’t put it down, put it away!
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Buy some boxes one for rubbish, give away and keep. Work room by room until all sorted
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My best decluttering tip is- think befor you buy! There’s no need for lots of big throwing away sessions if you don’t buy needless rubbish in the first place! saves money too! x
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If you have stuff you don’t want any more but don’t think they will sell, someone on Freecycle might want it. 🙂
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put everything in jars, boxes and stack.. if you haven’t used in 6 moths chuck out
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IF YOUR BRAVE ENOUGH LET SOMEONE ELSE DO IT FOR YOU
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i have wicker baskets that look nice and are great for storing and hiding things
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Have four boxes – 1 for keeping stuff, 2 to bin in household waste, 3 put recycling and 4 charity shop
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Put your belongings away in their correct place or an appropriate place as soon as you’ve finished with them! Rather than leaving them scattered around.
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As one item comes into the home one goes out
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Encourage friends and family to focus on consumable presents when buying for you to avoid additional clutter.
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Do one room at a time, and one job at a time..it soon gets done 🙂
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What a generous prize, thank you! I love clear plastic boxes – easy to store, easy to label and easy to see what’s in them #HomeEtc
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if you haven’t used it in a year, you probably don’t need it
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I like to do one room at a time, For the kitchen I always check dates on jars etc! Anything that is due to go out of date i make sure i use it up!
Once you declutter try to keep it all clutter free in the future 🙂
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Read the Kon Mari method, its life changing!
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Fill the charity bags that come through the door once in a while
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If you have not used something in a long time then throw it away! 🙂
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Do a little bit of cleaning/de-cluttering each day, so its not too much all at once.
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ask myself do i need it or do i just want it . and if i havent used it in last year recycle it give to friends or family or sell it
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have regular clear outs. moving home helps you rediscover old stuff, good or not so good!
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keep everything neat and in boxes! and have a good clear out a few times a year
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i try to keep on top of it when i clean!
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Do one drawer/cupboard at a time as it makes it seem less daunting
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Chuck it all in cupboards and pray nobody ever opens it again!
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donate unused stuff to charity xx
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I regularly donate to charity or give it to a friend who does car bott sales
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Don’t hang onto clothes if you haven’t worn it.
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I am quite ruthless when it comes to chucking stuff out, although i will reuse padded envelopes if i can.
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