DeClutter, By Carole Brecht
Here are a few tips to make life easier and simpler for the one(s) who cleanup and for those of you looking to declutter……
1) Put a shoe bench near the entryway where family members can take off and stash shoes conveniently. This will keep your floors
cleaner too.
2) Sort through your mail on the way back from the mailbox. You naturally look at it then anyway many times, don’t you? Immediately discard advertisements that don’t interest you into the trash can or your personal shredder. Don’t set them down for later.
3) When family members read the newspaper, have them lay it directly in a newspaper recycle basket. If other family members are interested in reading it, they can retrieve it and also return it to here. Make it a routine to drop the newspapers into a recycle bin either once a week on the way to work or school or when the newspapers fill the bin.
4) Get rid of excess and duplicates in your kitchen such as seven mixing bowls, five spatulas and ten frying pans. You don’t have to keep just one but you don’t need that many of each. Clean up will be easier too when family members realize they must wash the existing cooking utensil versus using every last one until none are clean and then washing them.
5) Monitor your impulse spending. A lot of items will catch your eye in the stores. But do you really need them all? Learn to live simple. If you don’t know what’s in your home without doing some digging, you might just have too much stuff.
If you need a hand sorting through your “stuff”, give me a call. I can help you declutter and organize the things that are most important!
Happy Spring!
Carole Brecht
412.418.4978
cebrecht@hotmail.com
www.organizeyourlifenow.net
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