Happy New Year! Are you resolved to do something about your clutter this year? Here are three strategies that’ll help you get started.
1. Take it slow
Get the Send It Away Saturday habit — each Saturday, find one thing to let of. Just one and then you’re done. It can be anything from an old shopping list to a grand piano, whatever you like. Email me and tell me what you’ve sent away each Saturday. If a different day works better for you, have at it — Take It Away Tuesday, Throw It Out Thursday, and Fling It Friday are all up for grabs.
2. Take 20
Join the many readers who aim to declutter 20 minutes a day, more days than not. There’s no pressure, just a willingness to see if trying this the slow and steady way will beat the usual January organizing frenzy followed by 11 months of re-accumulation. Set your timer for 20 minutes and stop when it rings. Repeat daily if you can, every other day if that works better for you.
3. Take out the trash
Don’t know where to start? The most crucial step in any organizing project is always to find out what you’re dealing with and the quickest way to do that is to take out the trash. Grab a trash bag and go around the house searching for everything you can immediately call trash, no decisions involved. Old food containers and wrappers, used paper towels and napkins, gum wrappers and the fragments of leaves the dogs bring in on their tails. Pick it all up and stuff it in the trash bag. If the bag gets full, take it out to the can and start another bag. If you find a lot of things you want to recycle, collect them in the same way. Fill the bag and take it out to the recycling can.
Ignore anything you’re not immediately sure is trash. If you have to think about something, leave it and keep going in search of trash. If you might use those old boxes, leave them be. If they’re saggy and ripped and the cat threw up in them, and you can see they’ve become trash, out they go. Collecting all the trash might take a few minutes or it might take much longer. That’s okay, this is where we start.
Professional Organizer Lucy Kelly shares decluttering tips and strategies on her blog, www.joyfulsurroundingsllc.com. Reach her at (720) 526-2114 or lucy@joyfulsurroundingsllc.com.
The Link LonkJanuary 09, 2021 at 07:55PM
https://www.timescall.com/2021/01/09/send-it-away-saturday-resolve-to-declutter
Send It Away Saturday: Resolve to declutter - Longmont Times-Call
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