4 months make your home refreshing! 30 seconds "Sweeping One Things in a Day" home tidying, home and heart are lighter

Health     9:23am, 23 August 2025

Note: I am filled with messy things at home. If I want to organize it, I feel my head hurts but I don’t know where to start? The author of the Japanese home compilation book recommends the principle of "sweeping one thing in one day". Starting from the items that you can take away without too much time to think, gradually develop into a daily habit of "micro-organizing". Over time, the foul things in the home can be gradually reduced, making the home environment more comfortable and refreshing.

Sometimes when I see piles of items that have not been used in my home for a long time, I want to make up for it, but I have to lose a lot of items in one breath, which is both expensive and exhausting, and it is often left alone in the end.

In this regard, the Japanese home-based book author Michelle, also a popular blogger, found from his own moving experience: there is less stuff at home, and life is more pleasant. "Before, because of moving, my luggage was shipped to my new home by sea for more than a month. At first I felt a little anxious, but later I gradually felt that this not only prevented my work from becoming easier, but also made my family more efficient."

Relaxed to become a painless and self-sweeping 6 principles

Therefore, for busy working women or homes, I am aware of the busy workplace. The court lady, she proposed the simple and easy-to-use principle of "sweeping one thing a day" sorting: "Sorting items that can be discarded without hesitation is not easy to feel pressure, but can slowly become a habit of examining whether the surrounding items are needed." She verified by herself that in just 4 months, the home will be clearly refreshed.

If you want to implement the principle of "save one thing in one day" easily but surely, you can grasp the following 6 principles:

1. One of the secrets to nurturing habits in the long run is to avoid spending too much time and energy when thinking about items that can be abandoned in less than 30 seconds. You might as well abandon an item every day, as one of the routines after returning home, if you will be surprised whether to abandon it for more than 30 seconds (even if it is a holiday, don't deal with it).

2. Do not let down your family's belongings by taking the initiative, which may make your family feel stressed or unhappy. It is better to force others to lose things than to let the other party actually feel the comfort after the items are reduced, and it can also help other family members to perform together. The scope of sorting can start from your own space or public area.

3. When you can't raise your slack, it's OK, even if you can't find out what to do, or when you're very tired, you can just pull out a slack from the slack, or something like a bill on the table and then drop it. The point is that no matter how you need to maintain the principle of letting go, in order to cultivate the "rebirth habit".

4. Record what you have been destroyed every day

Write today's date and what you have been destroyed in your notebook or mobile account. As the number of accumulated amounts increases, you will feel a sense of accomplishment in your goal after reviewing what you have been destroyed every day. You can also upload it to a social website and invite friends to do it together.

5. Find the "ideal room" in your mind

If you start feeling tired of letting go of something a day, you might as well read through home magazines and various beautiful pictures on the Internet, or go to furniture or shopping stores, and think that "you should live in such a room too", or maybe you can regenerate your energy.

6. Before you start to abandon items, take a picture of the space as a reference.

Even if you lose things every day, it may not be easy to feel that there are too many changes in your home in the first month. Therefore, before and after a period of time, you can take photos of your home or room regularly. After reviewing and comparing, you can clearly feel the difference between the past and the future.

Don't know what to do? Recommended lists of solitary items in each place at home

If you don’t have any ideas about “What can I do to lose”, the following are the “scaling lists” that can be referenced in different situations and spaces. You will definitely find these things in your home.

[Scenario 1] Be prepared to go out, busy weekday mornings

1. Beauty supplies: I don’t know how many makeup or utensils that have not been used for a long time may be piled up in the drawers or makeup bags. Only the most commonly used ones are left, and the others can be abandoned, which is also better for personal hygiene.

Reference items: brushes whose bristles have been split and exploded, dry nail polish, expired trial bags, and cosmetics that have not been used for more than half a year.

2. The mess in the bag: As long as you organize it a little, you can immediately feel the refreshing space. You can eliminate unnecessary things from the bag you want to use today.

Reference items: used hygiene paper, billings obtained outside, ticket stubs, and unused makeup.

3. Miscellaneous objects in the leather: It is very easy to pile up muds and it is easy to find places where there are many items. If the money bag is always stuffed, start to organize it manually.

Reference items: receipt, expired discount coupons, point cards, unwanted merchant business cards.

[Scenario 2] When you come home after working for a day, you are a little tired at night

1. Things in the refrigerator: Turn on the refrigerator and you will definitely find something you don’t want. Don’t forget to check the cold storage and vegetable room.

Reference items: small packages of sauce packs, foods that have expired, cold foods that you don’t want to eat, and flavoring ingredients that you haven’t used for a long time.

2. Face wash: It is also a place where all kinds of small things are piled up in large quantities. It is very suitable for bathing or brushing teeth and washing your face, and it will also make it feel more clean when washing.

Reference items: old toothbrush with bristles, towels with holes or drawers, unused facial cleanser or makeup water, almost used cream, eye medicine.

【Scenario 3】 Holidays with more free time

1. Mystery: The space you spend/use every day, because the area is small, just a little tidying up will make you feel refreshed.

Reference items: damaged or too many snatches, worn old shoes, painful shoes, dirty sneakers or slippers.

2. Book cabinets and shelves: It is easy to pile up many books or documents you have read. Don’t hesitate to whether you should throw away your favorite books or magazines. You can start sorting out information or expired data that you can find online.

Reference items: instructions for use, directory of online shopping, notes of notes that have been taken for more than 5 years, books that have not been picked up for several years.

3. Stationery type: Stationery with the same function but too many, or cannot be used, is also necessary and commonly used.

Reference items: Ink dried pen, a few pens of the same color, scissors that are not easy to use, convenient stickers that have not been used for several years or paper.

4. Kitchen cabinet: With the goal of "can easily pick up items", start sorting out the most caring things in the cabinet.

Reference items: excessive amount of no-wash tableware, unused cooking utensils, out-of-date ingredients or cans, and tableware with low frequency use.

5. Clothes: It feels like a difficult place to leave, but in fact, it is unexpected that you can easily find a lot of items that can be abandoned.

Reference items: underwear and trousers that have been clearly loosened, sweaters with severe hairballs, dirty clothes, clothes that have not been worn for more than 3 years.

Original text: 4 months make your home refreshing! 30 seconds "Sweeping One Things in a Day" home tidying, home and heart are lighter