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Tips to Control Clutter
Aby Garvey
Simplify 101, Inc.
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Do you have a door mat to prevent dirt from coming into your home? What about a system to keep clutter from getting in? The best way to control clutter is to prevent clutter.
Ideas to get you started...
I have a client who sorts his mail in the garage over his garbage can. Junk mail never makes it into his house! What a great idea! Why don't you purge your junk mail right away?
Avoid impulse purchases. Keep a wish list in your purse or wallet. When you see something you want (but don't really need) add it to the list. After waiting a week or so, look over your list. Decide if you truly need, love, or have-to-have anything on your list. If so, go get it and enjoy! If not, throw out your list and pat yourself on the back! You just prevented clutter and saved some of your hard earned cash!
When shopping, do you ever say I can always return it"? Clutter alert!! How often do you actually end up returning these items? Instead, do these things ultimately become clutter in your closet? If you don't love it in the store, there's something wrong with it. Either it isn't exactly what you're looking for or you don't need it. Let it go ... find something better.
Clutter often results when things don't have a home or the home is inconvenient. Look around your house. What things are causing clutter? Do they have a home? Is the home convenient? For me, a chronic source of clutter was my daughters pony tail holders. They were always scattered all over the bathroom counter. I added a simple ceramic dish to collect them. Now they look neat and tidy -- not at all resembling clutter. Once several have collected, I return them to their home in her bedroom.
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