11 Frustrating Decluttering Mistakes and Easy Ways to Prevent Them

Despite your best intentions, you might have unrealistic expectations of the decluttering process.

Whether you just want a tidier home, subscribe to simple living, or want to adopt a minimalist mindset, they all require some decluttering.

Here are some of the biggest decluttering mistakes people make (in no particular order) and how you can avoid making them.

Starting a Major Decluttering Project Without a Plan Starting a major decluttering project without a plan leaves lots of room for distraction, frustration, and ultimate failure of your decluttering efforts.

Not Using a Sorting System While Decluttering Leaving the room to ‘put stuff away’ is a surefire way to get distracted, which will ultimately derail your decluttering session.

Hanging On to Donate/Sell Items Too Long Storing unwanted items in the garage in a box waiting to take them to a thrift store or have a garage sale is not decluttering, it’s just rearranging!

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