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