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Female Focus


Reducing your clutter reduces your stress


When your parents used to threaten to ground you if you didn’t clean your room, it’s possible they were just looking out for your mental health. A recent study took a look at the stress hormone levels in 30 couples. The results? The levels of cortisol were significantly higher in women who described their home as messy


or chaotic. Men seemed to be more immune to clutter, which might also explain why that toilet seat always gets left up!


You don’t have to be on an episode of Hoarders to feel the mental side affects of clutter. So what’s the correlation between a mess and stress?


1) Missing those keys? Can’t find that file for work? You can count on that increasing both levels of frustration and cortisol.


2) Clutter causes our minds to do extra mental lifting. Those messes translate to added stimuli, that wouldn’t exist with an uncluttered home or office.


To suck up hard-to- reach gunk under your fridge, or behind a bookshelf, insert an empty paper towel roll into the end of your vacuum cleaner and bend, or flatten it, to squeeze into these difficult spots.


3) That pile of papers on the desk? It represents a constant reminder of work that needs to be done.


4) Imagine trying to write a paper with the jackhammer of a construction worker outside your office. Clutter is a distraction, pulling your attention away from the task at hand.


We’ll avoid cluttering the page with too many more reasons, but how about we instead focus on methods of decluttering your life? Here are a few tips:


1) Treat your home like a filing cabinet.


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