Reduce Clutter Tidy as You Go - Daily Vigilance

Posted on October 7, 2008

Reduce Clutter Tidy as You Go - Daily Vigilance

Every time you get up to move around your home or office pick something up, take a plate or a cup to the kitchen and put it in the dish washer or wash it (it takes less than a minute to wash a cup). If you are in your office, use the “if you touch it, do something with it rule.” A piece of paper can be clutter if you don’t do something about it before it becomes many pieces of paper.

That receipt for gum, will never make it to your tax returns, so toss it. That dinner receipt however should be in your tax returns, so create a folder or an envelope to put it in immediately or else that receipt will end up in the trash or clutter in your wallet.

Every little thing helps, it is all about living eternal vigilance.

Have a nice day.