VIRAL HACKS TO a home that's organized
First for Women|September 25, 2023
From TikTok to YouTube, organizing 'influencers' are posting new, easy clutter-busting tricks. We rounded up the hottest strategies to help inspire you!
LINDSAY BOSSLETT 
VIRAL HACKS TO a home that's organized

Declutter with a ‘numbers game’

Overwhelmed with where to begin? TikToker Morgan Bradley of The Blonde Bibee account, which has more than 2.1 million views, came up with a simple way to get started. Instead of tackling all her clutter at once, her strategy is to do it in small chunks over the course of a few months. “I cut pieces of paper and labeled them 1 through 30 once, then 1 through 20 three times,” Bradley says. “I put them all in a basket and I’m going to draw one every day. The number on that paper is how many items I’m going to get rid of [that day].” The numbers add up to 1,095— the amount of items that will eventually be removed.

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