Clutter Awareness Week: How Junk Removal Helps

Is Clutter Taking Over Your Home or Business?

This Clutter Awareness Week, learn the true cost of clutter and get started taking back your life with same-day junk removal.

Overflowing bathroom cabinets, junk strewn over kitchen counters, and smelly clothes piled high on the dysfunctional treadmill, does this sound like your home?  Over a quarter of American households admit they have a serious problem with clutter. 

Begin the process of decluttering and reclaim focus, peace, and your social life.

The True Cost of Clutter: Stress, Mood Disruption, and Lost Productivity

Clutter can have a detrimental impact on multiple areas of your life.

• Clutter Stresses You Out: According to a study published by Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, women who perceived their homes as more cluttered had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol.  

• Clutter Impedes Restful Sleep: The American Academy of Sleep Medicine found that people with cluttered bedrooms experienced more problems falling asleep and more sleep disturbances.

• Clutter Messes With Your Ability to Focus: Nuvance Health reports that more visual stimuli in an area forces your brain to split its attention, leading to problems concentrating and focusing. 

• Clutter Disrupts Empathy With Others: A study in 2016 found that clutter inhibited people from being able to interpret the emotions in facial expressions of actors in movies. Translated to your real-life relationships, you might have trouble with misunderstandings or expressing empathy with others in a cluttered space.

• Clutter Linked to Overeating: WebMD reports that people who struggle with hoarding are also more likely to struggle with binge-eating symptoms.

• Clutter Can Cause Social Isolation: If your home is so cluttered that you choose not to interact with your friends or family, you might experience significant levels of loneliness. Loneliness can have adverse health outcomes on par with smoking.  

Taking Back Your Space From the Clutter

The good news is that you can reap the rewards of decluttering one baby step at a time. Here are some simple things to keep in mind as you embark on your journey to a cleaner space.

• Start Small: If you’re overwhelmed by the scope of the job, pick one manageable daily goal to stick to for a few months. It can be as simple as spending 10 minutes tidying and organizing your most important spaces.

• Make Three Piles: Get some boxes or bags and sort your cast-offs into three major groups. Sell items in great condition that could fetch a fair price, donate items in good condition that can serve their function again, and dispose of items in poor condition that cannot be repaired or restored. 

• Be Honest With Yourself: Are you really going to get that treadmill fixed and start running everyday or is it just a space for your cast-off laundry (which you also need to get rid of)? Carefully consider every item you’re hanging onto ‘just because’ and either start making plans to use the item again, or joyfully let it go.

• Call For Help When You Need It: When you’ve got bulk clutter like old furniture, appliances, or outdated electronics, don’t despair. You can call for junk removal to get rid of those items for you. Junk removal services one-up your bulk trash pickup by donating and recycling items whenever possible, not to mention they will work with your busy schedule. 

Call Junk.com to Clear Clutter As Soon As Today

Junk.com would be proud to celebrate Clutter Awareness Week with you and help you clear out your bulky unwanted junk. Got a garage, attic, or basement full to the bursting with stuff you don’t know how to deal with? Junk.com loves the massive decluttering jobs and will proudly sweep in and cart all the junk away. You can count on Junk.com to work fast, respectfully remove the junk, and provide you with a clear and decluttered space at last.