How To Create Clutter-Free Zones In Your Home

Karen Kingston shares her wise thoughts on the importance of "clutter-free zones" and how to achieve them.

In any home there are certain areas where daily clutter tends to accumulate. You don’t know quite how it happens, but it does.

Often it’s the entrance area, where things get dumped when you arrive home or where you put things you want to remember to take with you when you leave. In some homes it’s the kitchen table, countertops, the dining room table, and so on.

The first step is to go around your own home and identify the areas that act like a clutter magnet. If you share your home with others, it may be their stuff as well as yours, or it may be all their stuff and none of yours. Whatever the case, the way it slows and stagnates the flow of energy around your home will affect you and everyone else who lives there in some way, so it’s in your interests to do something about it.

Clutter clearing these areas presents a different kind of challenge to other places in your home because it rarely stays that way. You roll up your sleeves, tidy it up, and a few days later, it’s started to fill again. Clutter, by definition, is unconscious, so the only way to prevent this is to consciously own the space and declare it a clutter-free zone.

What does that mean?

It means that in a clutter-free zone you never put anything “just for nowâ€