Declutter Now and Save Money

When you declutter you improve your life by improving your environment. Not just a fad for organized living, this process can increase your sense of well being through creating order in your space. At the very least you can prevent some potential priority health problems from occurring.

In addition to the very real physical, emotional and spiritual risks associated with clutter in a home there are some very real costs in terms of dollars and cents.

If you declutter now you could save yourself some real money.

If you are using your home for storing instead of living it is costing you!

Just because you are not renting storage a space does not mean that the storage in your home is free! Even if your home is paid for (congratulations!) you are still paying for the space, as there are annual taxes, insurance, heating and other costs associated with your dwelling.

Declutter Now.....how the middle class got their clutter.

The middle class has emerged in society as the first social class that could achieve economic stability without relying on inheriting money.

Free from the constant struggle to their meet basic needs of food and shelter, the middle class has some disposable income. People work hard for their money and can spend it on what they want to own! After all the economony depends on it.

Until the last decade, the idea that person could have "too much stuff' was not even considered in the realm of normal living. Today however there is a new phenomenae called clutter.

Clutter is so pervasive in middle class homes that professional organizers are now specializing in the "declutter" process. Imagine working all those years to accumulate stuff and then having to hire a professional to tell you how to ged rid of it?

How much can you save if you declutter now?

Step #1

Estimate the value of your home and divide it by the square footage of your house or apartment. This figure is the real dollar value of each sqare foot of your home.

Step #2

Take this figure from step #1 and multiply it by the number of square feet currenty being used for storage. The resulting figure is the actual cost of storage in your home.

Here's how it works:

Based on an estimated monthly payment of $1500 (mortgage or rent) for a 1500 square foot house, this comes down to one dollar per square foot. Here is the cost of storage per month for some average size rooms.

Size of room or closet	cost per month
2ft x 5ft (average reach in closet)	$10
2ft x 8ft (large reach in closet)	$16
9ft x 12ft (small bedroom)	$108
12ft x 12ft (large bedroom)	$144

This estimate is based only on the monthly mortgage payment. You would have to add in the cost of heating, annual taxes, repairs, and maintenance etc. to get the actual cost. When you add up all the square footage in your home that is used to store things you may not be using it becomes clear that there is no such thing as free storage!

Declutter now and start using that valuable square footage in your home for organized living instead of disorganized storing.

Go from Declutter Now to Feng Shui Tips to Avoid Blocked Energy and read how clutter can block energy in your home and affect you on a spiritual level.

Go to Priority Health Concerns related to clutter and read about allergy induced asthma and other health risks that may be caused by clutter.

Go to Symptoms of Depression - Cause or Effect of Clutter? and read how clutter can affect your emotional health.

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"Thanks Bev!"

"I have a really hard time being tidy and I picked up one little tip that will make my life SO much easier."

"My drawers are always such a mess because I'm always pulling things out and messing up my folding... and I'm just too busy to constantly refold!"

"Now my drawers are so tidy, it's amazing! All I want to do is fold!"

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