5 Ways Getting Rid Of Clutter Will Improve Your Life

Getting rid of clutter in your home will improve almost every area of your life!

Let me ask you:

How are your finances?
Are you often feeling overwhelmed and stressed?
Do you find your health suffering, and regularly feeling tired?
Do you struggle to accomplish your goals and managing your time effectively?
Is your home a safe haven or does it lack the peace and order you long for?

If your life can be improved in any of these areas, I’ve got great news for you! One simple task, getting rid of clutter in your home, can immediately improve your life in each of these areas.

Before I show you how I want you to think about how often do you walk into your home or look around and wonder how it’s possible you have so much stuff everywhere? You may have just spent the entire day cleaning, and yet in no time, your home looks messy. When you have a lot of clutter, it doesn’t take long for things to look messy.

This is just one of the results of clutter.

In fact, excess clutter in our homes has many negative effects. Clutter actually affects your finances, your mental state, and even your physical health. Clutter steals your time and focus, making it more difficult to pursue your goals. Perhaps most important, it robs you of that feeling of peace and comfort that your home should provide.

But it doesn’t have to be that way! Minimizing the clutter in your home will have a large and immediate impact. So let me show you five ways to improve your life by getting rid of the clutter in your home!

1. Getting Rid of Clutter Improves your Finances

There is no question, having a lot of clutter affects your finances. If you’re not convinced of this stop reading and spend just spend 30 seconds thinking about it. Did you see the ways in which excess clutter affects your finances?

First, the more stuff we have, the less we’re aware of how much we actually own. Not only is it difficult to take a quick inventory of what we own, for half the stuff we don’t even know where it is!

This has a major impact on your finances because when you can’t find something, you have to go out and purchase it again. I know there have been more times than I care to admit that I’ve purchased something, only to realize later, that I already had it.

Another way excess clutter affects your finances is that it leads to late fees and overdue fines. When you have too much stuff in your home it’s nearly impossible to manage it all. Things get misplaced or buried under other things.

Overdue fines for library books and DVD rentals happen because we misplace them. When your desk is cluttered, you forget to pay a bill that is buried amongst the clutter. The result is that you have now late fees.

However, by getting rid of the clutter in your home, your finances are immediately improving. You no longer purchase items you already own because you know where everything is. You’ll be able to designate a specific place to keep library books and bills, eliminating overdue fines. You’ll also know exactly where that electric bill is and stop those late charges.

2. Improves Your Mental Well-Being

Clutter causes stress! There was research conducted at UCLA, where the researchers observed 32 Los Angeles families. As part of the study, the researchers learned that each of the moms who were taking part in the study, had their stress hormones spike during the time they spent dealing with their belongings.

The study proves that clutter has the effect of overloading your senses and making you feel stressed. The stress is exasperated because you cannot maintain your home.  With excess clutter, you miss place items, waste time looking for things, and have general feelings of overwhelm.

However, you can change all of this by simply getting rid of the clutter in your home!

When you start minimizing the clutter, it’s so much easier to maintain your home. cleaning takes significantly less time because you no longer have to move all the stuff just to dust or vacuum. Plus, you have less to clean!!

Having a clean and orderly home naturally creates a sense of well-being and peace.  So stop creating unnecessary stress in your life and start getting rid of clutter in your home!!

Related: How To Stay Clutter-Free For Good

3. Improves Your Physical Health

Not only does clutter have a large impact on your finances and mental well-being, but it also has a large impact on your physical health. we already know that clutter causes unnecessary stress. Stress is known to have serious effects on your physical health.

But in addition to the physical dangers of carrying around a lot of stress, excess clutter may even be making you fat. Yes, it’s true, research has shown that there is an association between the clutter people have, and their excess weight.

Also, did you realize that excessive dust and animal dander collects in cluttered homes? Needless to say, when your home has a lot of dust and dander, allergies, asthma, and other respiratory symptoms will increase.

By simply getting rid of clutter in your home you’re also getting rid of these dangers to your physical health.

Related: Get Started Clutter-Free

4. Improve Your Ability to Accomplish Goals

The first thing to realize is that when you have a lot of clutter, it’s difficult to stay organized. And being disorganized can mess up your entire day. After all, starting your day searching for your keys or important documents you need is no fun.

All that extra time you’re spending searing for your misplaced, keys, glasses, or papers means you now have less time to work on your goals.

In addition to robbing yourself of time to work on your goals, excess clutter hampers the work you are doing. For one thing, having to search for misplaced papers or objects you need to leave the house will often make you frazzled and late.

When you are late for an important meeting or event, there’s no way you’ll perform at your best. Searching for lost keys and papers distracts you and steals your focus. When you are distracted and unfocused you are more likely to suffer missed opportunities.

Proper time management is key to achieving our goals. Excess clutter taxes your time and has a direct impact on your goals.

However, the simple act of getting rid of clutter in your home will help you to be more focused and purposeful with your time. When you are purposeful with your time you will create greater productivity and get closer to achieving your goals.

Related: Conquer The Emotions Preventing You From Decluttering

5. Getting Rid of Clutter Creates a Peaceful and Inviting Home.

Excess clutter robs your home of peace and prohibits hospitality. When your home is a cluttered mess, the last thing you want is having ave people stop by. It’s embarrassing as you come up with excuses for why your home is messy. Or if you know guests are coming, rather than focusing on your guests, you’re running around trying to clean up before they get there.

In addition to clutter hindering hospitality, it also affects family life.

We all want our homes to be a haven for our family. Home should be a place we come to escape from the natural stresses of the outside world. Instead, home becomes stressful because of the excess clutter everywhere.

So creating a peaceful and inviting home starts with getting rid of the clutter in your home. By minimizing the clutter, your home will become a place of order, rather than a place of chaos. When you are no longer focusing on all of your stuff, you’ll be able to focus on creating an environment of peace and comfort.

Getting rid of clutter truly will improve so many areas of your life. Your finances, mental and physical well being, goals, and home life honestly are just a few of the many benefits a clutter-free home brings.  Why not get started today!!

For further reading, I recommend Joshua Becker’s “The More of Less: Finding the Life you Want Under Everything You Own”