One of my favorite parts of minimalism as a naturally messy person is having a clean, clutter-free home. As I've started decluttering and building habits to keep my home clean and clutter free most of the time I’ve noticed that when my house is clean I feel less stressed and I have more focus on the things that are importantly to me.

These Minimalist Cleaning Habits Changed My Life

<img width="755" height="560" src="https://gabebult.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210378-683x1024.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://gabebult.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210378-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://gabebult.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210378-200x300.jpg 200w, https://gabebult.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210378-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://gabebult.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210378-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://gabebult.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210378-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://gabebult.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210378-scaled.jpg 1707w">9 Minimalist Habits for a clean home&nbsp;One of my favorite parts of minimalism as a naturally messy person is having a clean, clutter-free home. In today’s blog, I want to share the habits I’ve built that help keep my home clean with minimal effort.&nbsp;1.) Clean your fridge before making your grocery list. &nbsp;Shop your fridge and cabinets to see if there is anything you can turn into another meal or maybe there is something that has to be cooked soon before it goes bad. Do some of your meal planning based off of what you have a lot of like rice or pasta. This saves money and helps keep things from building up and cluttering your fridge, counters, and cabinets. You can also use this time to do a quick wipe down on your fridge.2.) Clean up while you cook. Make it quick and don’t let it add up or sit overnight. I usually wash my dishes as I go or right after I am done cooking. This keeps things from building up so I don’t have a complete mess at the end every time I cook.3.) Use the 2 minute rule for cleaning daily. I hate having to spend a Saturday cleaning so I do little micro cleans throughout the week. It takes 2-5 min to dust or clean a bathroom. This prevents build-up. You can also just take those 2 minutes throughout the day and clear counters or pick up your stuff that’s out of place, stuff that’s on the table or stairs that have a home but didn’t make it into them.&nbsp;4.) Save time with vacuuming. If you’re like me and hate vacuuming or you just value your time, then I suggest spending the money to get a robovaccum. I’ve been using mine (Alfred and Jim) for the past few months and they save a lot of time.&nbsp; It may just be a half hour a week but over a year that’s 25 hours. Plus I like that we are forced to keep the floors clean so Alfred doesn’t have to go around a bunch of junk.5.) Declutter knickknacks and unnecessary furniture. This will give you less to clean. Less things on your shelf means less dust. The pictures, decorations and other random little things you keep out but forget where they came from make your house look more cluttered, but it also takes more time to clean. So getting rid of those has been a big help and makes everything quicker.&nbsp;6.) Nightly cleaning rule. This is similar to the 2 minute rule but I make it part of my nightly routine. I take a few minutes before bed and clean the counters, run the dishwasher, pick up remotes and a few other things. Then when I get up in the morning everything is pretty clean and I can take my quiet time in a fresh clean space to do my morning routine.&nbsp;7.) Have a home for everything. When everything has a place, in my experience, it is far far less likely to get left out. Whether that’s a wallet or shoes or the mail, just make a place for everything you own so you always know where to put it. Don’t just leave it on the counter because you don’t want to put it away. &nbsp;8.) Keep flat spaces clean. This is hard to do for me. I just seem to want to always put down whatever I’m holding on to anything flat, but by making a rule that you can’t. Along with all the other habits I’ve talked about, this really helps keep counters and tables cleared off. This helps make life so much less stressful and can make a whole room look and feel cleaner.&nbsp;9.) Build intentional storage for things. You can even have that storage be open faced for a more modern look. I found that in my office it was always messy because I didn’t have room to put my gear and stuff away, so I built a few shelves in there next to the plugs so things could have a home. I also built a coffee bar to have all my coffee set up so it also has a home and isn’t all over the counters making them feel cluttered.&nbsp;Thanks for reading!&nbsp;Let me know what cleaning habits you use down in the comments below!

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9 Minimalist Habits for a clean home

One of my favorite parts of minimalism as a naturally messy person is having a clean, clutter-free home. In today’s blog, I want to share the habits I’ve built that help keep my home clean with minimal effort.

1.) Clean your fridge before making your grocery list.

Shop your fridge and cabinets to see if there is anything you can turn into another meal or maybe there is something that has to be cooked soon before it goes bad. Do some of your meal planning based off of what you have a lot of like rice or pasta. This saves money and helps keep things from building up and cluttering your fridge, counters, and cabinets. You can also use this time to do a quick wipe down on your fridge.

2.) Clean up while you cook. Make it quick and don’t let it add up or sit overnight. I usually wash my dishes as I go or right after I am done cooking. This keeps things from building up so I don’t have a complete mess at the end every time I cook.

3.) Use the 2 minute rule for cleaning daily. I hate having to spend a Saturday cleaning so I do little micro cleans throughout the week. It takes 2-5 min to dust or clean a bathroom. This prevents build-up. You can also just take those 2 minutes throughout the day and clear counters or pick up your stuff that’s out of place, stuff that’s on the table or stairs that have a home but didn’t make it into them.

4.) Save time with vacuuming. If you’re like me and hate vacuuming or you just value your time, then I suggest spending the money to get a robovaccum. I’ve been using mine (Alfred and Jim) for the past few months and they save a lot of time.  It may just be a half hour a week but over a year that’s 25 hours. Plus I like that we are forced to keep the floors clean so Alfred doesn’t have to go around a bunch of junk.

5.) Declutter knickknacks and unnecessary furniture. This will give you less to clean. Less things on your shelf means less dust. The pictures, decorations and other random little things you keep out but forget where they came from make your house look more cluttered, but it also takes more time to clean. So getting rid of those has been a big help and makes everything quicker.

6.) Nightly cleaning rule. This is similar to the 2 minute rule but I make it part of my nightly routine. I take a few minutes before bed and clean the counters, run the dishwasher, pick up remotes and a few other things. Then when I get up in the morning everything is pretty clean and I can take my quiet time in a fresh clean space to do my morning routine.

7.) Have a home for everything. When everything has a place, in my experience, it is far far less likely to get left out. Whether that’s a wallet or shoes or the mail, just make a place for everything you own so you always know where to put it. Don’t just leave it on the counter because you don’t want to put it away.

8.) Keep flat spaces clean. This is hard to do for me. I just seem to want to always put down whatever I’m holding on to anything flat, but by making a rule that you can’t. Along with all the other habits I’ve talked about, this really helps keep counters and tables cleared off. This helps make life so much less stressful and can make a whole room look and feel cleaner.

9.) Build intentional storage for things. You can even have that storage be open faced for a more modern look. I found that in my office it was always messy because I didn’t have room to put my gear and stuff away, so I built a few shelves in there next to the plugs so things could have a home. I also built a coffee bar to have all my coffee set up so it also has a home and isn’t all over the counters making them feel cluttered.

Thanks for reading!

Let me know what cleaning habits you use down in the comments below!

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