Once you’ve organised everything into three nice piles, work on organising the things you decided to keep. Obviously, you can recycle or toss the rubbish and you can keep the donation containers in your car so you’ll remember to take care of that next time you run errands.
Now that you’ve decided what is absolutely essential to you, for whatever reasons you may have, it’s time to organise it properly. This means more organisational tools like bins, labels, and good shelving or storage space, so you know exactly where everything is. It’s difficult to overstate how crucial everything having its place is.
For example: if you have an office area where you toss all your writing utensils in a cup and call it a day, you might want to consider a drawer organiser to keep all your different office supplies separate. There’s so many ways to keep your items organised.
You can apply these tips for the office outside your home as well, following the same idea with three containers. One for keeping, one for throwing away and one for donating. Once you realise how simple it is to declutter, you’ll build momentum and start cleaning as much as possible.