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Organize in little windows of time.
What you need:
Time Varies
An Open Mind
Just You
5 min
- Collect all your mail in one place
- Put away the dishes
- Put away your shoes
- Fold and put away any clothes that have been sitting out
- Collect all your spare chargers and cables in one place
- Clean out your wallet
10 min
- Clean out a kitchen cabinet
- Open mail and shred or recycle what you don’t need
- Photograph and recycle any bits of paper you’re keeping for reference like business cards or a flyer
- Organize by category of belongings like putting all your batteries in one container, travel adapters in another, etc.
20 min
- Go through one category of clothing in your closet and donate unnecessary duplicates or things that don’t fit
- Go through your bathroom cabinets and discard anything that’s expired or you haven’t used in the past 6 months
- Corral all your cleaning supplies in one place
30 min
- Organize your bookshelf and make sure you’re not holding on to anything you’re never going to read
- Go through all your hanging clothes, collect duplicates and the items that don’t fit, and drop them off to be donated
- Follow the exercise in the next step to organize your junk drawer and figure out where items that tend to cause clutter really belong
