6 Clutter Magnets that are Making Your Home Cluttered and How to Clear them!
There are clutter hotspots in your home that attract clutter like a magnet and make your home look so cluttered. Here are the most common clutter magnets you should watch out for and how to clear them to keep your home neat and tidy.
Every home has those clutter magnets or those places in the home that seems to attract clutter.
You clean these areas up and minute’s later clutter reappears in those places. If that has been your experience, you need not despair because you can do something about it.
Yes, there are solutions! And I wouldn’t talk about these clutter hotspots without offering tips on how to tackle them.
So, here is a look at 6 common clutter magnets in your home and how to clear them for good.
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#1. The Kitchen Counter
The kitchen counter seems to be a huge clutter magnet in most homes.
That is because everything from mail and other papers, car keys, schoolbooks, and other items just get dropped on the kitchen counter when people pass through the kitchen.
Solution
The best way to solve this problem is to make sure that you have an appointed place for mail and other papers, such as a mail cubby or specific drawer or holder.
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Everything else needs to be put away properly as soon as it is brought into the house.
It will take some discipline to train everyone in the home to put things away immediately, but the effort is worth having those clean counters.
#2. The Dining Table
The dining table is another clutter magnet. Like the kitchen counter, the dining table seems to attract everything from papers, to sweaters and even book bags.
Not only does that cluttered table make the entire kitchen or dining room look messy, but also you end up spending extra time cleaning the table right when you are planning to prepare dinner.
Solution
One lady I know solved the problem of dining table clutter by setting her table for the next day immediately after the dinner clean up was done the night before.
Not only did the set table keep the dining table from being cluttered, but it also added to the nice décor of the home.
#3. All Other Flat surfaces
After the dining room table, all other flat surfaces tend to be clutter magnets.
Solution
The best way to clear these clutter magnets is to reduce them altogether.
Most homes have more stands and corner tables than they really need. Removing those unnecessary stands and tables will help to remove the places that clutter can accumulate.
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#4. Your Entryway
The entryway of most homes is also another clutter magnet that leaves your home looking a mess.
People walk through the door and off come the coats, shoes, boots, and bags get dropped. Soon everything is a jumbled pile that looks like refuse.
Solution
To clear up this area start by getting rid of anything you don’t need.
Get rid of those broken umbrellas, coats no one wears any longer and those worn out boots and keep only what is currently being used.
Once you’ve gotten rid of the excess, then arrange everything neatly by using shoe stands, hooks for coats and book bags and whatever.
#5. Closets
Most often when something is brought home we don’t know what to do with we stuff it in the closet.
Eventually, the closet becomes a catch-all for all sorts of things that we never see again until out next clutter purge.
Solution
Our solution to this problem was to not buy anything that we didn’t have a specific space designed for before we purchased it.
For example, if we needed a new vacuum then we threw out or gave the old vacuum before buying the new one.
That way we always had a home for everything we brought into the house.
#6. Drawers
Empty drawers in the home also seem to collect clutter. It’s so much easier to pick up a pencil off the table and shove it into a drawer instead of taking it into the home office and setting it into the pencil holder.
Pretty soon those empty drawers are filled with rubber bands, pens and pencils, hair clips and all sorts of other stuff, making for one big mess.
Solution
The easy solution to this problem is to organize every drawer in your home and have a specific place where everything goes so there are no empty spaces to fill with clutter.
Final Thoughts on Clutter Magnets
Cleaning up those clutter hotspots once and for all will make your entire home look neater and less cluttered.
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Which areas or places are the top clutter magnets making your home cluttered?
