The week of One A Day Challenges is almost complete.
Today we are focusing on our offices. If you do not have a physical room in your house that is an office you still have an office it's just part of another room or maybe it is all over the house. If you do not have time for the optional challenge below just remove one item from your office collection, even a piece of junk mail counts.
Here are some office areas for you to consider today:
The desk top, is it clear of stuff? Is it functional? Flat surfaces tend to collect clutter so declare an all out war with the desk top and clean it off, you will love the result.
The paper piles, sometimes these are piles sometimes they are hills and sometimes they are mountains! If the document is IMPORTANT to keep then file it otherwise toss it, you may want to shred it first. I will deal with how to manage paper piles and what to do with sentimental things in those piles in a separate blog down the road. Today just throw away the junk.
Pens, pencils, markers, crayons etc.... do they work are they broken.... get this down to a manageable number and make sure they have a place to live in your home.
Notebooks, folders, binders, loose leaf paper, post it notes, weed them out and organize what is left.
Envelopes, stamps, stationary, take a look at these things and weed out what you don't use.
Staplers, rolls of tape, scissors, paper clips, binder clips, thumb tacks, brass brads, rubber bands... make a place for them and organize them so they are easy to get to.
Printer papers, printer ink etc..... organize it.
We will deal with computer programs and all those computer CDs in a blog down the road for now get rid of what you do not use.
With the above list get rid of duplicates. Anything you have excessive amounts of but do not really use donate some and keep some.
For items like tape, staples etc... that will be used make a place for them and if you think you have way too many then do donate them, someone will be happy to have them, perhaps a school? It will not hurt you to have to buy new staples in a few years but keeping too many in the house can stress you out.
If you have been taking the weeding out challenge with us you may be finding one of two things happening.
One, you are feeling empowered, invigorated, excited to see some things being weeded out of you life as you gain more and more control over your time, space, and finances. This is an awesome camp to be sitting in, keep going!
Two, you are feeling very overwhelmed and want to just give up even trying to simplify as it is an impossible task. If this is the camp you are sitting in I want to encourage you that this is a normal feeling. Personally I have been working on simplifying for about three years now and I'm still not there. This is the slow and steady wins the race kind of thing. Do not give up! Every little decision you make towards simplifying is one step closer to the freedom those sitting in camp one are feeling.
Just keep it simple, you know what you can handle, however do press on, do not give into the materialism mountain, you CAN conquer it.
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