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Clearing Clutter Pick a small space to begin your dejunking. You might try a small drawer or a little closet. Surround yourself with your boxes, get some coffee or tea, and put on some nice music. Set a timer for an hour from now. Open your drawer or closet, take out the first object you see, and decide whether it should stay there or go into one of the boxes. Pretend that you're interviewing it for a position in your household. Ask it whether or not it's contributing. Specifically, you want to find out if you like this item, if you use this item, and if it makes sense to store it in this spot. How do you decide where to put each item? |
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- Put it in the undecided box if it takes
you longer than five seconds to figure out what to do with this item.
About the Author: Allison Van Norman runs Organizing Solutions, a San Francisco Bay area business devoted to teaching people how to get organized. For more information, go to her Organizing Solutions web site organizing-solutions.net Address Books You don't have to stop with names, addresses and phone numbers. You should also include birthdays, e-mail addresses, baby names, and any other information that might be useful in the future. Just think of how impressed your clients will be when you remember their children's names two years from now. Inspiration "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." --Robert Frost  "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." --Bob Dylan |
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- Put it back in its place if you like and use the item and it makes sense to
store it in this spot.
- Give it away or sell it if you don't like or use it and someone else might. - Throw it away if it's garbage, or if you don't like or use it and you're pretty sure the local thrift store would reject it (if it's irreparably dirty or damaged, toss it). - Put it in the sentimental box if it doesn't really serve a purpose and you don't use it, but you feel a special attachment to it. 
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- Put it in the needs work box if you like it, you've used it, and you would use
it again, except that it has a fixable problem
 (needs a new battery, it needs to be hemmed or dry cleaned). When you put things in this box, write the task on your list. - Put it in the put away box if the item belongs somewhere else, and you know where it belongs. Also put items in this box that should go somewhere else, but you're not quite sure where. You'll put this stuff away during your pickup session every day. |
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