Many believe that decluttering takes a long time. Yes, if you are decluttering your entire house. When you start thinking about it, you do not know where or how to start and hat is how you get overwhelmed. However, if you set a timer for just 5 minutes and have a goal, decluttering will be less daunting. For instant, in 5 minutes, you can declutter your bedside table drawer.
Please give it a try.
1 Gather
Empty your bedside table drawer.
2 Discard:
+ trash immediately.
+ what doesn’t belong.
+ what you will not use again.
+ what you will not use in the next 6 months.
+ what you haven’t use in a year or more.
Tips:
+ What doesn’t belong in the drawer should be move to were it belongs. For example, why is a spoon in your bedside table drawer, move it to the kitchen.
+ Place a waste basket next to your bedside table for ease of just putting trash there instead of in your drawer.
This is the slim waste basket we purchased on Amazon*. It is by iDesign and it is simple, doesn’t take up space and functional. They have different colors to match your room decors. It is $18.00.
3 Organize
Place the items you use back into the drawer.
Tips:
+ Use drawer organizers or bins to separate items. And measure your drawer before purchasing.
We purchased this drawer organizer from Amazon*. It is by madesmart and the set comes with 8 pieces of containers in different sizes for you to customize. It comes in white or black. On sale for $8.00. It is really an inexpensive way to keep your drawer organized.
4 Manage
Managing is about maintaining. You decide how often you want to revisit in decluttering your bedside table drawer again.
We hope you get a sense of the decluttering process. It is very manageable to declutter one drawer at a time. Thank you for decluttering with us.