Create no new clutter
No more organizational tools, please 2 years ago

Organizational tools are clutter.

In the back of my car Right This Minute are boxes full of devices invented to help me reduce clutter.

On my table is a box with little drawers to hold little cluttery things.

Filling up my cupboards under the stove are adorable little bottles designed to hold Things. Still in their Ikea wrappers.

I have devices to hold magazines that are leaning along the wall.

In my hallway are the conveniently located tubs left out after Christmas last year—ideally situated to put the ornaments back in NOW to leave in the hall for another year. Or not. Major effort to declutter the front room to have a tree, but definitely worth it.

I have to Stop Adding. Stop Adding seems like an easier goal than Reduce It.

Doesn’t it?

How do you Tame the Clutter?



Comments:

Well, for a couple of years now...

I’ve been trying to get rid of three things for every new, non-perishable thing I bring into the house…doesn’t always work though, I forget. This reminded me though!

WHAT A SUPERB IDEA

I have to trick myself into things like that … I make myself take 10 things out of my car (into the trash) before I can have coffee in the morning. Funny that there are ALWAYS plenty of things to choose from EVERY day.

Three things for every one thing … hmmmmm … my kids could get rid of one-for-one on the new toys for Christmas and still have too many …. hmmmmmm.


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