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Faiza Saqib

How To Declutter When You Have a Busy Schedule — "Organizing Isn't About Stuff, It's About Time"

Comfortable living room with sofa and coffee table, dining table and chairs, with patio doors leading into garden.

It’s 5pm and after a long day of work, you are dreading heading back to a clutter filled home. You managed to steer clear of it for just a few hours, but then reality kicks in. ‘Ah, I left a bunch of laundry piled up on the sofa’. You head home and that’s when the 9-5, turns into the 5-9, but instead of making it feel like a chore, how can you better control your space and declutter a room in a productive way?

Time is a precious resource for many people, including myself, and I can understand and empathize with not wanting to have to do those pesky house chores after a long day, but what if there was an easier way of approaching decluttering? ‘Organizing isn't about stuff, it is about time,’ Ben Soreff, from House to Home Organizing tells us. Dedication, even if it is just for a few minutes a day, might just make all the difference you need.

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