How to De-clutter Before Selling Your Home

The process of putting your home on the market can be involved and exhausting. Taking the time to organize and clean beforehand will help to reduce stress and increase your chances of selling your home. In the following article, we will show you some useful tips, such as using self-storage to help de-clutter your home before selling it.

Clean Before You Pack

It’s tempting to throw everything into boxes before your open house , but this creates an enormous amount of clutter that will eventually need to be organized. Instead, do your de-cluttering before you start to pack. This saves you time and money, and you won’t have to move as much into storage.

Schedule Segments of the House for De-cluttering

Breaking this project into smaller segments will make it easier to manage. Ideally, have at least a month or two for the entire project, and break it into time blocks of 2 or 3 hours for each segment. For instance, you could do half of the kitchen for a few hours over a weekend, and the second half on another weekend. Remember it’s best to start with the most cluttered room in your home or office to give you more momentum for the remainder of this project.

Tune In To Yourself to Find Out What You Want to Keep

Try picking a theme for your life that you would ideally like to live out at your next home or office, such as enjoyment, relaxation, or freedom. Keep this theme in mind as you sort through your belongings. If the item doesn’t fit the theme, donate or sell it. If it only somewhat fits the theme, consider putting it into a your self-storage unit.

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