Clutter drains you of your time. If you live in a cluttered place, you will spend extra time looking for lost items: keys, money, shoes, tools, etc. And even when you’re looking right at the lost item, it becomes difficult to see when surrounded by clutter.

Time

<ul><li>Go in every room and divide your things into four boxes: things to donate, things to throw away, things to keep, and things to store. If you don’t need it or love it, consider getting rid of it.</li><li>Go through your box of things to keep and find a place for everything. </li><li>Finish one room before moving on to the next.</li></ul>

Cull the Clutter

Guidelines to follow to help you decide where you should draw the line on clutter:<ul><li>Company. Do you like to have your home neat enough to have drop-in company? </li><li>Organization. Is your home organized enough that you can generally find everything you’re looking for without having to search?</li><li>Stress level. Can you truly relax in your home or is it an energy drain?</li></ul>

A Realistic Level of Clutter

<ul><li>When you don’t have financial papers organized, bills can get lost, causing you to accrue fees for being late with the payments.</li><li>Replacing lost items and buying duplicates of those we didn’t realize we already had can carry a cost that adds up quickly.</li></ul>

Money

Examples of stress clutter can cause:<ul><li>Having guests over becomes an embarrassment or an event that takes all-day preparation.</li><li>Each room carries visual reminders of all the work that needs to be done in the way of cleaning.</li><li>According to the principles of feng shui, clutter drains you of your positive energy.</li></ul>

Stress

<ul><li>If a job takes around 30 seconds or less to do, do it immediately: put away your shoes or sort your mail.</li><li>Watch your ‘hot spots’. Clutter tends to accumulate in the same places: the front door, the kitchen table.</li><li>When you take something out, you should simply put it back.</li><li>Stop receiving junk mail: to cut down on paper clutter is to get rid of the junk before it comes in.</li><li>Put on some music and take 15 minutes a day, to clean.</li></ul>

Keeping your home organized:

Clutter-most of us have a little of it here or there. In fact, many of us have more than just a little. Over a third of readers avoid going home because of the overwhelming mess -and don't know where to begin cleaning. (In contrast, less than 10 percent say their homes are clutter-free.)

Stress

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