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24.08.2024 - 11:49 / thespruce.com / Ashley Chalmers
After a busy few weeks of summer travel and adventures, my family and I returned to a home that was in need of a major declutter.
Unfortunately, with beautiful weather and more fun activities calling our names, we kept putting it off until it became too much to bear.
I was struggling to find places for everything—nothing had a home and everything was feeling messy.
Of course, I’m no stranger to decluttering our home. For the most part, I even find it therapeutic. I've tried several decluttering methods, but one new one particularly struck my interest—and it seemed like my whole family could get involved.
The Wheel of Chores is a concept coined by TikTok creator melitsmoi. Using a digital template to create a wheel of choices, Mel regularly applies this to her home by adding her «To-do» list to the wheel.
If nothing else, it seemed like this approach would solve my inability to decide where and how to start to tackle our mess.
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Wheelofnames.com
To begin, I went to wheelofnames.com and entered the most pressing items I needed to organize. For me, this included the following areas that I desperately needed to clear out and declutter:
Wheelofnames.com
With my wheel ready to go, I clicked spin. I was thrilled that the wheel gave me something easy to start with: our mail pile.
I quickly flipped through it, got rid of the junk, dealt with the stuff for me, and made a separate pile for my husband. Done! Sorted!
One thing I loved right away was that, after my first spin, the wheel prompted me to remove the item from my list.
This was as satisfying as ticking an item off a physical to-do list.
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