How To Declutter Your Home – An Easy Mental Shift That Has Me Decluttering Like Crazy

You deserve to love your home! And if you're overwhelmed by clutter, learning how to declutter your home doesn't have to feel impossible.

These tips will teach you how to start decluttering when overwhelmed so you can declutter your home, clear your space, and finally feel at peace where you live.

For years I struggled with decluttering. I had a "saving mentality" and I’m not sure it’s a good thing.

When I was a kid, I had collections of everything - stickers, plastic charms, even candy (yes... candy 🙈). I would save it all in a bottom desk drawer like it was treasure. I know crazy right?

But here's the truth: I never stopped collecting.

As an adult, I realized that same mindset was quietly filling my home with clutter. And until I changed the way I thought about my stuff, I couldn't make real progress.

That mindset shift became the foundation of my repeatable Decluttering Method!

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How To Declutter Your Home (Even If You Feel Overwhelmed)

These decluttering tips will help you with:

• how to purge your house
• how to declutter a room
• how to organize a room with too much stuff
• how to get rid of things without regret

Through my own extreme decluttering, I’ve found the best way to declutter your space - and it all starts with a simple but powerful mental shift.

Figuring out this decluttering process even led me to create a declutter checklist to keep me motivated - and I'm sharing it with you so you can download it and start making progress today.

The Simple Decluttering Shift That Changes Everything

If you're anything like I was, the biggest thing holding you back from a decluttered home isn't knowing how to get rid of stuff. It's your mindset.

It’s not that you don’t know how to declutter. It’s that you don’t have the right framework for deciding what to keep and what to let go of.

For years, I held onto way too much stuff and lacked the motivation to start decluttering because the job felt too big and too overwhelming.

I finally hit my breaking point when I started going through boxes of “stuff” that had been stored in our office for years - boxes that had moved with us three times and had never been unpacked.

They sat in empty rooms until those rooms had to become bedrooms for our kiddos... and eventually everything landed in the office - which had become a crap dumping ground that I finally overhauled during our shared office makeover.

At first I was completely overwhelmed by the clutter.

But instead of trying to do everything at once, I followed my decluttering plan which breaks tasks into short short, manageable chunks of time so you can make progress without burning out.

In the end, it turned out better than I could have imagined. Take a look...

I know I’m not the only one with this problem.

When I walk through my neighborhood, almost no one parks in their garage cause it’s so filled with stuff that it’s impossible! I used to be one of those people - until I finally got serious about decluttering and got my garage organized and under control!

And once that mental shift clicked, I started decluttering like I'd never decluttered before.

Benefits Of Decluttering

Having a decluttered home will produce so many positive benefits in your life:

• Being able to find things quickly
• Cleaning up faster
• Having company over without going into panic mode
• Letting go of the past, "shoulda-woulda-coulda" thoughts, and guilt
• Allowing the things you truly love and use to stand out

Decluttering isn't just about getting rid of stuff.

It's about creating space, clarity and calm in your home - and in your mind.

How To Start Decluttering Your Home The Right Way

Decluttering Tip #1: Change your mindset

This is the most important step in learning how to declutter your home.

My old mentality of holding onto something sounded like this:

• I might use it someday.
• I paid good money for that.
• It will fit once I lose weight.
• But so-and-so gave it to me.

These thoughts only keep you stuck with things you don't need and don't serve your goal of a decluttered home.

Ask yourself:

How can the things I truly love shine if they're buried under things that aren't important?

This is where the key mental shift comes in.

If you hold onto everything because it is special in some way, then really nothing is very special.

That shift alone will change how you approach decluttering.

Decluttering Tip #2: Create clear criteria for what to keep

Ask yourself three questions:

• Is it beautiful?
• Is it useful?
• Is it sentimental?

If it doesn't clearly fall into one of those categories - it's clutter.

But let's dive a bit deeper into this decluttering tip so you have clear criteria for what you keep in your home.

What "Beautiful" really means

If you saw it today in a store, would you fall in love with it and buy it for your home again?

If yes - keep it. If no - let it go.

What "Useful" really means

Does it get used regularly? Does it make your life easier?

Leftover project supplies are a great example. If it's versatile and can be used again on many different projects, by all means keep it. But if it was for one unique project and won't be used again, it's just clutter taking up space!

What "Sentimental" really means

This is the hardest category.

Sentimental items should tell your story. But they should be the best representations of your story - not every single piece of it.

There is no freedom in keeping every single item, memory, or story. Pick your favorites and release the rest!

Decluttering Tip #3: Declutter one small space at a time

One of the biggest decluttering mistakes people make is trying to overhaul the entire house in a weekend.

Instead:

• Choose one drawer.
• One shelf.
• One bin.
• One corner.

Decluttering one small section at a time builds momentum and removes the overwhelm.

My online decluttering course, The Declutter Method, breaks down 5 main areas of your home into small manageable tasks so you have a foolproof roadmap for success.

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How To Declutter Your Home (Step-By-Step Roadmap)

1. Start with one small space that doesn't contain a lot of sentimental items. Use this decluttering checklist to decide where to start.
2. Set your timer for 20 minutes.
3. Ask yourself the three questions for each item (beautiful, useful, sentimental).
4. Clean the space and put back only what you plan to keep.
5. Take the other items to the trash right away.
6. Put donation items in your car immediately and make a plan to take them to the donation center within the week.
7. Each time you see the decluttered space, pause and appreciate it. It will build confidence and motivate you to keep going and maintain consistency.

Decluttering is a skill - and you can absolutely learn it!

Ready To Declutter Your Home Today?

If you’re feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where to start, I created something that makes this even easier.

Check out:

👉 75+ Things You Can Quickly Get Rid Of Today (Printable Checklist)

It’s a simple, no-stress way to build momentum and start decluttering immediately - without overthinking every decision.

Because once you shift your mindset, decluttering becomes less about getting rid of stuff… and more about creating space for the life you actually want to live.