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Clutter Busting: Jobs for the Organized Person

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Do you like to keep things organized and create order?

If you would like to use your organizing skills for a career, besides being a professional organizer, here are some other ideas for jobs and what they do:

  1. Merchandiser. Arranging products to increase sales along with straightening, signage, etc. Many merchandisers work for a product line and may visit multiple stores.
  2. Event Planner. Organizing events including schedules, details, costs, guest lists, accommodations, etc.
  3. Travel agent. Planning trips for others including travel arrangements, accommodations and itineraries.
  4. Real estate agent. Besides organizing your day, you need to organize open houses, locations, listing details and deadlines.
  5. Project Manager. Overseeing all parts of a project from inception to execution on time, on budget and within scope.

Thankfully there are different ways and things to organize and doing what you love doesn’t make it work at all.

Clutter Busting: Your School Papers

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Do you still have papers or binders from grad school, college or even high school?

It may seem difficult to let go of papers from school because of all the hard work you put into it or the memories you have of that time.

Ways to control school papers include:

  • Limiting your storage space to one file drawer or bin.
  • Treating yourself to a trip down memory lane while you sort the stuff.
  • Whittle it down to a special collection of papers that you enjoy looking through occasionally.
  • Frame one or two special papers to hang in your office.
  • Keep only the truly important or original papers such as a thesis or essay or keep one paper from each year.
  • Toss class notes, quizzes, worksheets or syllabuses.
  • Shred or recycle items that you are no longer keeping.

By tackling the issue of school paper clutter, you will clear space and one potential clutter culprit.

Clutter Busting: Office Supplies

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In order to get a handle on your office supplies, implement the following strategies:

  • Gather all similar items together so you can see what you have.
  • Test all pens and markers and immediately toss those that don’t work.
  • Combine what’s left, if possible, such as two half-empty boxes of staples into one.
  • Designate a drawer and buy an organizer with spots for all those small supplies.
  • Keep extras in one space such a bin or shelf and check there first before you buy supplies.
  • Determine how much of each item you truly need to have on –hand.
  • Donate any items that you rarely use to a community organization that would benefit.
  • Ban office supply shopping until you use up what you have.

Using these strategies will help corral your office supplies to a useful amount.

Clutter Busting: Toys

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Many times we find it difficult to clear out our children’s toys and possessions. Many times we fear that they will be inconsolable if they ask for it and we have given it away or that we are giving away good money or memories.

You do have to have a heart of steel when dealing with your children’s toys and games (memories). When you are working on toy clutter consider the following:

  • Banish the goody-bag trinkets that are received from meals or food packages when they are first ignored after a day or two.
  • Twice a year, take inventory of the toys and ask the following:
    • Do my children still play with this?
    • Do we have all the pieces?
    • Will any of the children be interested in this in the next year?
  • Get your children on board. Talk to your child about making room and asking them to donate a certain number of items to a local charity.
  • Be prepared with a response when your child asks you for the item that has been donated.
  • Relocate keepsakes to a storage box or on a high shelf.

By regularly clearly excess toys, you can avoid toy clutter. And you can teach your children valuable lessons.