Engage in a tidying zone for 15 minutes daily

I went through the dresser today. There was way to much stuff in it. I can hardly fit all of my clothes in there due to lack of space. A lot of the things in there hadn’t seen the light of day in years.

I spent a few minutes and removed a lot of the things that I haven’t worn for a long, long time. I was amazed at how much stuff I was able to get rid of. The other amazing thing was that I still have a lot of clothes left.

I started going through a pile of papers that I had that have needed to be filed away for a very long time.

As I put them into the file box I realized that there wasn’t enough room for all of them, so I took out some of the papers that are less needed and decided to move them to the filing cabinet.

The filing cabinet was full of a lot of old papers that I’m pretty we can live without, phone bills from 1992, the owner’s manual for a VCR that we got rid of about four years ago, cancelled checks from 1994, etc. Most of what was in the drawer ended up being thrown away or shredded.

Now I have a place to put my important, but inactive files, as well as a place for my current files.

I finally forced myself to empty out my suitcase, put all of the things back where they belong, and return the suitcase to the storage room. It made me feel good to get that taken care of.