Declutter your environment

House on "WATCH" method

Along with emotional decluttering, one needs environmental declutter as well. Very best to start the declutter is your own personal house. We keep a WATCH on our house when we are out, we ask our neighbours to keep a WATCH on our house when we are out of station. This kept me wondering what is the real funda befind House on "WATCH" (Wardrobe, Arrange, Toilet, Cooking area, Home office, Home Library)

1. Wardrobe - Cleaning your wardrobe is the most important activity, this will help you clear the most visiting place in the house, kept clean (specially for the ladies). You can categories your wardrobe in 4 sections as below, the KIDS (Keep, Improve, Donate, Scrap) method:
1. To keep - You are going to use them as it is
2. To improve - You are going to use them after some improvement (repair)
3. To donate - You are not going to use them as they don't fit you well or you are just bored of it (Can be given to the servant or NGO)
4. To scrap - Its passed the stage of improve or donate (lets not donate the cloths which are in its worst shape)
2. Arrange - Arrange the items immediately as they enter your house. 
1. Let it be newspaper & mails - After reading store it in specific location or in sell the item area
2. Let it be Grocery - Store it in Kitchen, Toilet etc immediately and throw away the old items
3. Let it be cloths - Give them space in your wardrobe. Never buy new cloths till the time you complete KIDS method
4. Let it be accessories - You can again use the KIDS method for males, females, children, pets and your house to declutter the accessories (For eg: decorative items for house
3. Toilet - This is the most neglected and the most dangerous area in your house. Keep a check on cleaning all the area on a regular bases. Keep only the toiletries which is in use, throw away or give the unused toiletries to someone. Keep as little things in the Toilet as possible. Clean your luffas, razor, bucket, mug, all fittings, walls, ceiling, floor and even drainage pipes/paths and disinfect it regularly. Change your tooth brush & toilet brush every once a while.
4. Cooking area - Its the most used, touched area in the house. The perishable area as we can call it. The less the better, give away unwanted utensils. If all the items are kept in the right place then nothing is on the counter and the area looks much clean and decluttered.
5. Home office &/or Home library - 
1. Home Office - We have a very bad habit of getting work to home, its almost become a life style or Some of us are so smart that they opt the work from home types of job (I wish I could accept and execute such types of job :P) Lets use the RAFT (Read, Act, File, Trash) method to declutter
2. Home Library - It necessary to improve your knowledge and your dream world. Try get digital copies of books this will save the little environment left in the world for our next generation (I understand some of you like the feel/ smell of the book while reading, can you get over it for a better cause? Come on its possible). Again you can use the KIDS method to declutter.

If you follow the WATCH, KIDS and RAFT methods you have completed your decluttering of your environment.