Take a quick look around an average room and there are probably loads of areas that need to be regularly cleaned, and plenty of drawers, boxes and shelves that need de-cluttering. Apply all that to an entire apartment or house and that’s a lot of work and a lot of next actions to get through. It would make sense to have some sort of system for managing all those next actions around your home right? Oddly enough, this is an area that tends to get neglected, so in this post I will introduce my own system that I have recently been experimenting with.

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Welcome to the tenth part of my Clutter 101 series! Imagine that you have friends or family who have unexpectedly decided to visit you (as they always seem to do…), yet you have piles of paper on the table, laundry waiting to be washed in baskets and, and overflowing kitchen drawers. How do you go about tidying up and de-cluttering in a such a short space of time? The trap a lot of people fall into is to rush around to try and clean the entire home, dumping everything into the first drawer they find. Out of sight, out of mind right?

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You come home from work or a long day out shopping. Your hands and pockets are full of coins, keys, paperwork and shopping bags. Where do you put them? If you don’t have a landing strip, then you probably leave them at the first bit of space you come across, whether it be the corner of your living room, on the dining table or on the kitchen surface. None of these places are efficient or practical. A place for everything and everything in it’s place, and that includes the stuff you have just walked into your home with.

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Welcome to the third part of my series of posts taking the Clutter 101 principles of organizing and de-cluttering your home and applying them to individual rooms in your home. In this post I will cover the kitchen. As there is typically so much activity here, as well as the fact it needs to be regularly cleaned, it is important that we don’t get distracted by all the clutter lying around and can cook our food without spending ages trying to find the right utensils and pans.

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Welcome to another post in my Clutter 101 series, and the second post focusing on dealing with individual rooms around the house. In this post I will focus on the bathroom. While most of the focus on this room typically revolves around keeping it clean and sparkling it is still important to look at all of your space issues, especially considering you will likely have towels, toilet rolls, toiletries, etc to find room for and keep organized.

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