From Chaotic Hiding Place to Peaceful Retreat: The Primary Bedroom

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Cultivate a Bedroom Reset Routine

This week’s assignment is to add a five-minute bedroom reset habit to your daily routine, if you haven’t already established one.

• Identify the best time of day for a bedroom reset, depending on your lifestyle. For morning people, this habit might logically fit between your morning shower and getting dressed for the day. For night owls, consider resetting the bedroom as you’re shifting from work clothes to relaxing attire, or as part of your getting-ready-for-bed rituals.
• Select reset tasks that apply to your bedroom habits, such as:
  • Take dirty dishes or drinking vessels from the bedroom to the kitchen.
  • Purge the bedside table of trash, materials you’ve finished reading, or electronic devices that you don’t wish to keep in the bedroom overnight.
  • Browse all horizontal surfaces looking for anything that doesn’t belong in the bedroom. Return items to their logical homes elsewhere in the house.
  • Gather up any dirty laundry that didn’t make it to the hamper.
  • Hang anything that’s fit to wear again on a hanger or closet hook as appropriate.
• Write a post-in note or set a phone alert to remind you when it’s time to carry out your bedroom reset.
• Practice this habit for at least a week. Notice any difference in the way you feel about your bedroom.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.