De-Cluttering

Lately, I have had an almost compulsive tendency to de-clutter.  Yesterday I cleaned my bedroom and did a little rearranging.  I cleaned the kitchen including a scrubdown of the countertops and stove (thanks to the boyfriend for doing the dishes!).  I went through a huge stack of magazines to remove my address and make sure there were no recipes or articles I wanted to keep.  This will be my second batch of magazines I take for recycling.  The only room I have left is my spare bedroom/computer room, which unfortunately is currently the stash location for two, overflowing baskets of clean laundry and various and sundry memorabilia items that I haven’t found a place for.  However, despite this still cluttered location, I feel good about the progress that I did make on the rest of the place.  Hopefully once I get home tonight I’ll have some energy to put some clothes away and tackle that one section of clutter. 

Some new things I’ve been trying to decrease the clutter include 1) reading the mail and throwing junk away immediately,  2) getting a shredder to shred all the unwanted credit card offers and charity solicitations immediately and 3) getting rid of magazines shortly after I get done reading them.  Every little bit helps right!

What do you do to keep your clutter under control?

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