Essential Guides for a Streamlined Path to Reduced Clutter and Success
In the pursuit of a more organized and minimalist lifestyle, many turn to the wealth of resources available online. Here are some popular and helpful decluttering blogs and resources that offer practical tips and inspiration for decluttering your home and life:
1. Abundant Life With Less
Embracing a grace-based approach called Messy Minimalism, Abundant Life With Less encourages living with less while acknowledging and embracing imperfection. The blog offers a free 3-day email series called Unstuck, which tackles common decluttering obstacles and helps you let go for good. It also shares insights on evolving minimalism inspired by Marie Kondo’s methods but adapted for real-life messiness[1].
2. Clutterbug
Clutterbug provides numerous posts on decluttering and organizing with actionable advice. Popular topics include how to fake a clean house, making decluttering manageable in just 30 minutes, and using decluttering to reduce burnout in your home. The site focuses on easy-to-apply steps and motivation to maintain an organized, clutter-free environment without overwhelm[2].
3. The Organized Mama
The Organized Mama is particularly useful for families and individuals dealing with ADHD-related executive function challenges in organizing and decluttering. It covers practical systems, like turning decluttering into a game, easy organizing tune-ups, and focused hacks for managing clutter in different areas of the home to make the process less overwhelming[3].
4. Kate Bosch Professional Organizing
Kate Bosch’s blog offers professional organizing tips with insightful strategies like categorizing items into clear groups, making pre-decisions to avoid decision fatigue, and setting up sustainable systems for processing new items and reducing future clutter. The blog shares real-life examples and practical steps for efficiently clearing clutter and maintaining order[4].
5. The Lifestyle Concept (Bournemouth, Dorset)
This blog shares a variety of decluttering ideas and tips, such as how to create calm and productive workspaces, decluttering for moving, and general home decluttering strategies. Posts are geared towards helping you create a more peaceful, organized living environment through thoughtful decluttering[5].
For those seeking inspiration and a unique approach to decluttering, Caitlin Doughty's video, titled "Death & Minimalism - Caitlin Doughty, Ask A Mortician", explores her love of both stuff and the idea of minimalism[6]. Ken Ilgunas shares about living in a van as a way to graduate with no student debt, offering a unique story about living with less in his blog post titled "A Man and A Van"[7].
The Minimalists, Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus, have a wide online presence with books, a website, multiple Netflix documentaries, and a big social media following. They are also insightful on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheMinimalists[8]. Michelle on Boomer Eco Crusader is undertaking a year-long declutter challenge, sharing her progress and resources weekly[9].
Becoming Minimalist discusses strategies for dealing with sentimental clutter on their blog, offering valuable insights for those struggling with emotional attachments to their possessions[10]. Zen Habits has a simple post reminding readers to tend to their belongings regularly[11].
Each of these resources offers a unique perspective on decluttering, providing comprehensive help and inspiration to make decluttering manageable and motivating. Whether you're just starting out or looking for new ways to approach decluttering, these resources are a great place to begin.
- Abundant Life With Less's Messy Minimalism approach, rooted in grace and acknowledging imperfections, offers practical tips for decluttering your home and life, as seen in their free 3-day Unstuck email series and insights on minimalist lifestyle, home-and-garden organization.
- The Lifestyle Concept blog, based in Bournemouth, Dorset, offers a variety of decluttering ideas, providing tips for creating calm and productive workspaces and general home decluttering strategies, all aimed at helping you achieve a more peaceful, organized living environment, reminiscent of a minimalist lifestyle.
