Each of these five items can be decluttered in under 30 minutes, but can make a positive impact on how you spend your time and how cluttered your head feels.
That ONE desk drawer – you know, the one drawer where all your loose pens, paper clips, stickies, and old receipts end up. This is a fast fix, because most of this stuff can be quickly arranged in old pill bottles, a drawer divider, and so on. Knowing where to find a paper clip and a pen will make you feel better each time you sit down at your desk.
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When you’re knee deep in clutter, decluttering and actually organizing can seem an impossible feat. However, it’s not too hard if you follow some basic steps…
1. Make a plan:
You CANNOT get organized (not truly and forever) without a solid plan. If you willy nilly organize, you’re more likely to willy nilly keep it up – and we all know what willy nilly behavior can lead to. Or maybe I just like to say willy nilly? Hmmm. In any case develop your perfect organizing plan by reading:

One of the first things you should do before organizing your house
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With spring cleaning and organizing coming up on us, you may be considering a yard sale / garage sale. This is a great way to help you declutter freshly in the spring – allows you to dump some stuff that you don’t need, and make more room.
Here are some ideas for organizing a better yard sale…
Before the sale:
Plan for the weather. While no weather predictions are foolproof, looking up the weather in advance on a site like the weather channel can help you beat the rain at its own game, and get more incoming customers.
Start setting aside stuff now. Setting …read more

You shouldn’t get rid of ALL your half-used items. Waste not, want not right? However, there are some mostly used items you should sort up and out of the homestead.
For example:
Any liquor bottles sitting around less than 1/4 – 1/8 full. In most cases, 1/8 is not even enough for a mixed drink, it’s just a bottle taking up storage real estate. Use the 1/4 rule to double check alcohol you hate. If you’re not gonna drink this stuff ever, recycle the bottle and save some space.
Kitchen food jars. The fridge is one of those places in your home, that …read more

Fact: if you need an organizing system for your organizational tools, you’re bordering on too many organizational products.
How this happens: A well meaning individual who want to get organized heads to the stores and scoops up organizational products without a plan.
What happens next: The well meaning individual from above gets home and now has a pile of bins, file folders, kitchen containers, and hanging closet racks with no rhyme or reason.
The end result: The well meaning individual now has two organizational issues – getting the house organized, and figuring out what to do with all this stuff they just bought. …read more

Uncluttered lives tend to be simpler than cluttered lives. Uncluttered lives also tend to be full of smaller things – smaller rooms, smaller collections, smaller items in exchange for big ones. Why? Smaller is just easier to clean, organize, and keep clutter-free. It’s not hard and fast, we’ve all seen people living in small rooms, who have overwhelming clutter, but in most cases learning to live small can help you stay clutter-free and buy you more life hours – hours you won’t be spending organizing and cleaning.
Small living rules: 

If you’re actively trying to declutter, you may be trying tricks like sorting boxes of stuff (i.e. stuff to keep, stuff to toss, maybe items). This does work for many people. In fact I advocate this as a pretty good decluttering tactic.
That said, it doesn’t work for everyone. Some people NEVER finish deciding about that maybe box. Boxes like this, if you’re undecided, basically just move around your house. That’s not decluttering; that’s called reorganizing clutter.
If this is you, if you’re stuck, you need a harsher rule. The 2 minute rule. Set a basic kitchen timer for 2 minutes. Grab …read more