10 Ways to Find Time to Declutter Your Home this Spring

After five years of minimalist living, if I was to offer one gentle suggestion this time of year, it'd be this: find time to declutter your home.

While spring cleaning and spring organizing are helpful to an extent, the real home reset comes from spring decluttering, or more specifically, spring de-owning. Letting go of the excess physical stuff residing in your home is where the real lightening, freeing, rejuvenating sense of the spring season is found.

In short, if you're investing in the state of your home this spring, don't organize your clutter, don't spring clean your clutter… declutter your clutter. Get rid of it!

Why?

Decluttering and letting go of excess possessions, studies show, reduces the amount of time spent on housework by 40% in the average home.

Let that stat sink in for a minute—that's almost half the amount of housework-dedicated minutes of your life.

If you spend 10 hours a week cleaning, organizing, and maintaining things, with less stuff you will spend 6 hours. What would you do with 4 extra hours a week? (An extra 16 hours a month; an extra 208 hours (8.5 days) a year). Anything you've been wanting to do but haven't had the time! Connect with your kids, take up a new hobby, spend more time with friends, read books, exercise, cook—it's all waiting for you once your living environment contains less.

In my experience, finding time to declutter your home is one of the best time investments you can make. The return on your investment is phenomenal—invest a bit of time up front in decluttering your home and soon you have less stuff-related “to do's,” resulting in much more free time in your daily life.

Truth is, finding time to declutter your home in the spring can set you up for a year filled with less stress and more focus on the things and people in your life that matter.

Here are 10 ways to make time to declutter your home this spring:

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Julia Ubbenga is a freelance journalist whose teachings on minimalism, simplicity, and intentional living have reached over 1M people worldwide through her blog. Julia also practices what she preaches in her Kansas City home. She resides with her husband, two extremely lively young daughters, three-year-old son, and baby girl. You can also find her on Facebook.