15-day decluttering plan for Chinese New Year

15-Day Chinese New Year Decluttering

Program

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…to impress your relatives

www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering

Day #1 – Gathering stray bottles

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Preparing to host relatives from overseas? Try

this to neaten up your bathroom.

Replace your multi-sized and multi-shaped

shampoo and body wash bottles with uniformly

sized bottles to make your bathroom feel

organized, less cluttered and be the envy of all

your relatives!


Day #2 – Be ready for leftovers

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Get ready for leftovers. Tackle the Tupperware

lids in the kitchen.

Get them corralled and neatly organized by using

CD racks that you can easily get at Popular or

any homeware store. You’ll be able to whip them

out quickly and send you guests packing (with

leftovers of course!).


Day #3 – Preparations for cooking

up a storm, part 1

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Impress your relatives not just with your cooking

skills, but your massive collection of pots and

pans.

Get a few kitchen rails from IKEA and mount them

to a wall. Your pot lids will find a great resting

place on the rails, and you’ll get an art installation

too! Now, that’s killing two birds with one stone!


Day #4 – Preparations for cooking

up a storm, part 2

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Preparing to cook up a storm with your relatives?

Get your tools in order first – unless you want the

head chef to be shouting for the tools all the time.

Get a few Command hooks, categorize your

cooking utensils, and then plan out where the

hooks should go. Remember to test the

placement out with blu tack first.


Day #5 – Spice up your life

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If you are itching to add some spice to

your cooking, first get them organized.

Put the spices into small glass or plastic

containers and write down their names

using a marker. That way, when no one

will mix up the ground cardamom with

the nutmeg.


Day #6 – Keep the kids occupied

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To keep the visiting kids from running around and

screaming their lungs out, create a craft box for

them, filled with pencils, crayons, markers,

stickers, etc.

Get these inexpensive pull-out drawers from

Giant, and fill them with all sorts of craft goodies.

And then let the kids’ imagination run wild

(instead of their physical bodies).


Day #7 – Hello kids, goodbye toy

clutter

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Get a few colorful boxes from IKEA to hold all

your card games and toys. Better yet, cut out the

name of the games from their original cardbox

box and stick them onto the side of the new

colorful plastic boxes!

Now it’s easy for the kids to find what they want

and put them back afterwards! No more back-

breaking work for you when the guests leave


Day #8 – Divide & conquer

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Cut up cereal boxes and dress them up in

festive wrapping paper to turn them into

delightful drawer dividers.

Use them for the kids’ stationery, your

spices, or just for the miscellaneous

drawer.


Day #9 – Entertain your guests, the

old school way

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When the conversation dies down, and a

newspapers or magazine is the best way

to keep your guests occupied. But the

last thing you want is to have them lying

around on the table, taking up loads of flat

surface area.

Get a tall and narrow basket, where the

magazines and newspapers can go to

rest after they’ve been read. Your guests

can even use it as a foot-rest while

reading.


Day #10 – Keep the keepsakes

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Get some file boxes from Popular and create a

memory box for each kid. Place all the

keepsakes you’ve collected for each of your

children in it, including the pretty red packets that

they’ve received over the years (minus the

money, of course).

That way, you can give it to them when they’re

celebrating a significant milestone in their life

years later.


Day #11 – Stop t-shirt piles from

falling over

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If your t-shirt pile keeps falling over, get

a few book ends and carve out spaces

for different types of t-shirts on your

shelves. No more Leaning Tower of

Pisa.


Day #12 – Ready, steady, pout

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Do you have a sunnies collection to rival Vicky

Beckham? Hang them out (to sun) on a plastic

chain suspended between two hooks attached to

your closet door. Thread the side stem of the

sunglasses through the chain links to prevent

them from sliding around.

And remember to use Command hooks to save

you from drilling into the walls!


Day #13 – Finding nemo (earrings)

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Ice-cube containers has more uses than for

making drinks cold. Try corralling your earrings,

pendants, rings and any other small baubles into

the ice-cube containers and place them in a

drawer.

Having the bling greet you every morning like this

will make your heart sing the whole day.


Day #14 – Creating scarf-envy

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Girlfriends coming over? Give

your closet a make-over by

turning your scarf collection into

installation art.

Use disposable drinking cups as

individual compartments for each

of your scarves. Just remember

to stick the bottom of the cups to

the drawer with some blu tack.


Day #15 – Don’t worry, be happy

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Finally, don’t worry if you

don’t have everything

organized. Just go with the

flow and enjoy the

festivities. Spending time

with your family and friends

are more important than

fussing over how organized

your home looks. The best

home isn’t one that is

organized, but one that is

full of love and laughter


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15-day decluttering plan for Chinese New Year