
One of the first Declutter 365 missions on the calendar each year is to declutter your kitchen counters.Įach year, when I run that mission in January, I inevitably hear from someone who says, "I can't clear off my kitchen counters once a year and expect them to stay that way!"

The easiest way to show how these two practices work together is to give you an example. When used in tandem, decluttering and tidying up work together to give you the home you desire, because decluttering clears away the junk and tidying keeps it from getting re-cluttered and turning into disarray again. How Decluttering & Tidying Up Work Together To Give You The Home You Desire Therefore, the key distinction between decluttering and tidying is that when you declutter an object it is removed from your home, and if you tidy up an object you put it back into its designated spot, keeping it in your home for use again later. That means, for example, if you find something in the drawer that you do want to keep, and its not clutter, but it belongs on a shelf instead of in that drawer, you'd tidy up the drawer by removing that object and putting it back where it actually belongs in your home. On the other hand, the term "tidy up" means to put the item back, into its designated spot, or to put it away. When I ask you to "declutter" an area of your home what I'm asking you to do is to look at the objects in that area, such as a drawer, and remove from that space, such as the drawer, any items that don't belong in your home, at all, and physically remove them from your home completely by donating, selling, or trashing (or recycling) them.

To help you understand why tidying up your home daily and consistently is such an important habit, it will help for you to understand what I mean by the term, and how it differs from decluttering. What Is The Difference Between Tidying & Decluttering?
