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Toss It or Not? 5 Organizational Tips from a Chronic Clutter Bug

Posted August 10, 2009 - 09:00 by Linsey Knerl

Life Hacks, General Tips

Some might say that I have no business giving out organizational tips. My desk is always a mess, I usually look for things for a very long time before finding them, and my neat-and-tidy husband often wonders where he went wrong. I’m a work-in-progress, however, and because the learning is so fresh in my mind, I think other messies might benefit from how I’m managing the struggle to keep my stuff in order. Here are 5 tips that I know work (not because I read them in some book).

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Jettison the junk: why clutter clouds your mind and saps your energy

Posted August 7, 2007 - 15:54 by Andrea Dickson

Lifestyle

lots of junk

There's a man who lives down the street from me who's a big fan of dumpster diving. And by "fan" I mean, that's all he does. His back yard is a sea of garbage. He has 30 broken refrigerators on his giant back porch. His truck, which is parked in front of my house, is overflowing with discarded junk like broken baby strollers, cardboard boxes, paving stones, and dried out cans of paint. He's impoverished. Yet he has all this crap lying around.

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