Clutter in Your Home

A cluttered home leads to a cluttered mind, and a cluttered mind isn’t fun for anyone. If you’re a bit of a pack rat, you might not realize just how much stuff you’re regularly bringing into your home. A few extra things here and there won’t kill anyone, but when does it become too much? We’ll go over a few signs that you have too much clutter in your home so that you can be aware of these problems.

You Find Excuses To Keep Everything

What do you think when you see a room full of junk? If you see a lot of little things that you’ve had to come up with excuses to keep, it’s time to start decluttering. When you start making arguments for keeping a useless piece of trash or a sentimental item you haven’t looked at in a year, you should know that your pack rat tendencies have gotten out of hand.

You Always Lose Things

We all lose things in our homes from time to time. However, if you think that losing things is just another part of daily life, you may have way too much clutter in your home. A classic sign that you have too much clutter is regularly misplacing things in your own home. It’s not that you are a forgetful person; it’s that you have so many places for things to go missing that you’ve lost control over your belongings.

You Have Too Many Duplicates

Having an extra pair of scissors or a few too many coffee mugs isn’t a big problem. The problem comes into play when these duplicate items start to get out of control. You need to be aware of what you bring into your house. Ask yourself whether you already have something that fulfills the same purpose. If you have a cluttered home, the answer is almost always “yes.” 

You Always Think You Need More Storage

Everything would be fine if you just had more places to put things, right? Unfortunately, that only gets you so far. Eventually, the clutter catches up to you, and you start to think that you need more storage space again. This is an expensive habit when all you really need to do is pare down the number of items you have. That’s the best way to open up more storage space in your home, not continually expanding it.