8 Organizing Strategies from Professional Purgers
Dust Off That Desk!
Purging: Begin by throwing away the no-brainers, including junk mail, expired coupons, brochures, and catalogs. Next, create desk zones. "Have a bill-paying zone, a stationery zone, a mail zone, and a reading zone," says Kosloff. "Keep everything you need for each activity in neat containers."
Prevention: Tackle
your zones weekly, particularly bills and mail. For incoming papers such as
children's art or tax information, keep one folder or container for each
category, and at the end of the year (or month, if things really pile up fast),
choose the keepers and purge the rest.
From the
January 2007 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
