Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness Quotes

“Tackling all the housework yourself doesn’t do your children any favors.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Instead of aiming for perfection, aim for speed.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Declutter to the Power of 10 Choose to complete 10 small decluttering tasks a day every day without fail. Before you know it, chaos will give way to organization and you’ll have the confidence to tackle larger decluttering projects.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“A large part of getting organized is learning to act from a place of self-esteem, knowing what we want and don’t want to do, knowing what we can and can’t do, and taking good care of ourselves. — Marilyn Paul”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Treat unwanted gifts like flowers. Yes, they express a sentiment you appreciate. No, that doesn’t mean you have to keep them forever. — Don Aslett”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Do I still love or value this item?” If not, it’s time to let it go. Give that thing an opportunity to be loved by someone else. Give someone else a chance to love it. And give yourself the gift of giving.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“When you cling to things you don’t need or want anymore, you are holding on to negative energy. You are also acting, whether you realize it or not, from a belief that you don’t have enough. Donating those items to others sends positive energy into the world.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Instead of removing everything from surfaces, move everything to the right to clean the left side, and vice versa.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Clean from top to bottom. Start with the cobwebs near the ceiling. Then dust the ceiling fans, tops of bookcases, and other higher-up surfaces. Clean the floors last.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“We tend to develop emotional attachments to our belongings that make it difficult to give them up even when we no longer love them. So we keep holding on to stuff in this unhealthy relationship. Why? Because breaking up is hard to do!”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“If an item is Hot (used frequently, such as the remote to your television), find a spot where it’s handy to where you use it. If it’s Warm (used occasionally, such as a muffin tin), it’s okay if you have to cross the room for it or retrieve it from a lower cabinet. If it’s Cold (rarely needed, like last year’s tax return or your turkey roasting pan), store it on a high shelf or in the attic or basement.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Recognize that you are not the same person you were 10 years ago. Your interests, tastes, and styles have changed. Make a decision to keep only those things that are meaningful to you at this point in your life. That goes for gifts you’ve received, too.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Ask Yourself “Does this belong here?”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Tackle a pile of papers. Start by flipping over the pile. Because the papers on the bottom are older, many are outdated, making it an easy decision to toss them. One by one, make a decision to either file it, act on it (for example, pay a bill), or toss it.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“The hard part of decluttering is having to make decision after decision about what to keep and what to toss. One way to make it easier is to create umbrella rules that you can apply to all items. “If you don’t love it or use it, lose it” is an example of an umbrella rule. “If you have duplicates of something, keep just one” is another.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Once an item enters your possession, you are not obligated to hang on to it forever. Give yourself permission to let go and enjoy the sense of liberation that results.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Don’t overwhelm yourself by thinking about all the work you have to do. Focus more on what you have accomplished rather than what remains undone.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Progress is the path to your goal. Sometimes that path is like a highway that you travel at top speed. Other times, it’s more like a scenic byway. Go where it leads you. Rest when you need to.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Don’t try to find the perfect recipient for every item.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Change your surroundings and you can change your life. You might find that letting go of clutter is the start of a new you!”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life

“Clutter serves no purpose; it just takes up valuable space in your home and creates unnecessary stress and extra work. Clutter is what you end up with when you have more stuff than you need.”
― Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life