Spring can easily become the most dreaded season for a lot of people because it’s time to clean up and say Goodbye Junk. If your backyard resembles a junkyard or your house has started looking like rubbish can, use these strategies and remove unwanted items from your home.
Goals
Depending on your energy levels and the severity of clutter in your house or a particular room, you might not be able to deal with it all in one try. Don’t try to say goodbye trash this way, determine what you can handle at a time and keep your goals realistic.
Guidelines
You can set guidelines to make the whole process simpler and faster. For example,when saying goodbye to junk, you can decide to toss out all clothes that are two sizes to small and more or every magazine that is more than three months old. Guidelines will make the entire process quicker.
Toss out the garbage
If you have clutter festered rooms, there are many things you can toss in the garbage without thinking twice. You can start saying bye-bye rubbish from here. Get rid of that empty shoe box you never used and the empty bag of chips lying on the table. This will quickly lighten the load.
Identify what you must dispose of
If you can, begin the goodbye waste process placing everything in one corner and sorting your stuff out. If this isn’t practical, label each item as you go through the stash so you know what is staying and what is going.
Set a timer
You must not spend an entire day saying farewell junk. You can set a target to fill a certain amount of boxes or set a timer and take breaks in between. This echoes the tips on setting goals and setting guidelines. Setting a timer will help you not get overwhelmed by the workload.
Who is getting your rubbish?
If you have decided to say farewell garbage to your stash of rubbish, you should have thought about how you will finally dispose of it. You can hire a professional junk removal company to handle this for you. They will come to the house and take your rubbish away for rice. Some of them even offer cleanup services so the place is looking nice after the junk is in the trunk. Another option is a garage sale. This takes a lot of work and planning but you will be able to get rid of your junk and make some money too. If you are committed to a cause, donating your items to a charity is another good way.
When you decide to get rid of your junk, you have to shove emotion and sentiments to the side and do the job right. Holding on to those things will do you no good.
Summary
If spring cleaning is already upon you or you’re just tired of the dirty look of the place, use these tips to organize and get rid of junk. Even if you have an emotional attachment to some items, you have to say goodbye junk at some point and uncluttered.