Clearing the clutter

Clearing the clutter
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Weeks and weeks of putting the mail on your kitchen counter eventually adds up! And that shoe pile by the door — how long has that been building up? To make your life easy, here are a few easy tricks that will help you clean up your clutter in no time and with virtually no hassle.

Weeks and weeks of putting the mail on your kitchen counter eventually adds up! And that shoe pile by the door — how long has that been building up? To make your life easy, here are a few easy tricks that will help you clean up your clutter in no time and with virtually no hassle.

• Add it to your daily routine: If your home is seemingly always overwhelmed with clutter, get in the habit of clearing it out daily. Take 20 to 30 minutes of your time and work on a different cluttered area every day. Don’t try to tackle the whole house in one day — as if the clutter wasn’t overwhelming enough!

• Make space: Why do we all hate clutter? It limits our space in the world. Clearing your home of piles and junk can give you a feeling of greater emotional and mental space. Go through your biggest piles of clutter and decide what “stuff” to donate. If it’s out of your house, it’s no longer clutter!

• Store it: Create more storage! Everything should have its place. If you have items and papers that don’t necessarily belong anywhere, designate a storage unit for miscellaneous items. If you have DVDs strewn all over the living room, give them a new home together. If you have a handful of items that are just too sentimental to dispose of, find a home for them as well. It’s OK to have a “junk box” as long as it’s really just one junk box and it’s out of plain sight.

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