21 Quick Clutter Fixes For Your Home

By Jessica Hoelzel

REDUCE the amount of STUFF you have and LIVE GREEN

NEW blog series: 21 Quick Clutter Fixes. Keep your eye on Day to Day Feng Shui for 21 ways to lighten your load by cutting out clutter bit-by-bit throughout your home. Plus, solutions that keep the environment top-of-mind, so you keep your waste-impact down.

Less Clutter = Healthy Home

Less Waste = Healthy World

In the Living Area

5. Get rid of magazines and catalogs. Conveniently store the ones you WILL read or refer to. Busy lives can create a lot of “someday” ideas. Someday I’ll read that/do that/get to that/organize that/look at that/deal with that. That’s how clutter breeds. Clutter is created by postponed decisions.

We tend to hold on to magazines and catalogs according to “someday” ideas. Well, if “someday” never comes, you’re still left with stacks of mag’s and cat’s.

Environmental considerations: these are printed on paper. The great majority of them non-recycled. They take resources to print and distribute. Take note of your impact on collecting these things – solicited or unsolicited. Then decide whether or not it’s worth it.


Lighten your load and ease the burden on the environment:

1. Recycle the magazines you no longer need/won’t get to reading, or donate to dentist's and doctor’s offices.

2. Go to your online account for companies you receive catalogs from. Unclick the check box or unsubscribe to paper catalogs and direct mail offers. The same information and offers can be obtained electronically.

3. Think twice before you subscribe to a periodical you receive through the mail. Ask yourself whether you have time to read it, and whether the information can be obtained elsewhere, such as via the web (published articles, RSS feed, enewsletter subscription, etc.). And whether you want it added to the already-overwhelming amount of paper received through the mail.

4. Store magazines you DO want to keep, but set a LIMIT for their accumulation. Links below include some handy magazine storage products:

Organize.com

ContainerStore.com

Target.com