Declutter Fast Newsletter
…How To Get Your Home In Order
Hello and welcome back to your Declutter Fast newsletter!

Clutter reminds me of that line from the wonderful movie “Hoosiers” which is one of the most popular sports movie of all time, for good reason:

“Look, Mister, there’s two kinds of “dumb”… a guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and a guy who does the same thing IN MY LIVING ROOM… The first one don’t matter… the second one, you’re kind of forced to DEAL with.”

When the clutter is in YOUR living spaces, you’re forced to deal with it. You’re either looking at it, thinking about it, walking around it – or whittling it down. You are aware of the state of your home all the time, either consciously or subconsciously.

You’ve got clutter when things are piled on the horizontal surfaces of your home – that are not supposed to be there.

You’ve got clutter when things are piled on the floor, too! (That’s just one more horizontal surface – and a big one!)

It’s oh-so-tempting to pile things on those horizontal surfaces – tables, countertops, desk tops, tops of furniture!

Things can get piled there and stay there for literally months – sometimes even years.

Horizontal surfaces are your own personal clutter horror show. The good news is that there is only so much that you can actually put on any one table or desk or chair.

When you finally start venturing through your horizontal horror show, it can be a real trip down memory lane.

“Oh, so HERE are those keys I’ve been looking for!!”

But don’t get sidetracked by photographs or even that long overdue library book you have finally located…

Take each item and put it where it belongs. You don’t need to rush this job. Lots of things will get tossed out – and that means fewer things in your home!

Even if you take more than one day working on one horizontal surface, you are making significant progress.

It feels good! And remember to clean the item also – if it’s a wood surface, give it a wonderful polishing so it will shine.

You can even accomplish ALL your decluttering with this one project – because MOST of the clutter will be found on horizontal surfaces!

A few minutes a day really goes a long way. Remember, as long as you keep working toward the goal of decluttering, you WILL get there – it’s a “mathematical certainty.”

Every effort we make adds up.

Here’s to order in our lives!

With love,
Mimi Tanner
Author of Declutter Fast – How to Get Your Home In Order Almost Immediately!

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Check my blog titled Two Thousand Minus Four!!

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Postscript: This message prepared on the computer while at my volunteer assignment.  If prepared, at home, on my new laptop–with Windows 8–it would have required hours of struggle and frustration!!