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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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Stress
Examples of stress clutter can cause:
- Having guests over becomes an embarrassment or an event that takes all-day preparation.
- Each room carries visual reminders of all the work that needs to be done in the way of cleaning.
- According to the principles of feng shui, clutt...
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Cull the Clutter
- 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.
- Go through your box of things to keep and find a place for everything.
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Time
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.
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A Realistic Level of Clutter
Guidelines to follow to help you decide where you should draw the line on clutter:
- Company. Do you like to have your home neat enough to have drop-in company?
- Organization. Is your home organized enough that you can generally find everything you’re look...
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Money
- When you don’t have financial papers organized, bills can get lost, causing you to accrue fees for being late with the payments.
- Replacing lost items and buying duplicates of those we didn’t realize we already had can carry a cost that adds up quickly.
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