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    Your Living Room

    This is probably the easiest place to start as this is where you will (hopefully!) have the least amount of junk.

    This is not because you’re more organized in these places, but more because you keep dumping the stuff out of here on a regular basis when people come over.

    So what you really need to go through here is the small stuff that gets left behind. Like old magazines, newspapers, and coffee table books. If your music system is also here you will no doubt have to go through the stack of CD’s you have, which now resembles a great big mess.

    Then you’ll also have to sort through anything else that sundry family members might have decided to keep here, and either put them away yourself or get them to do it.

    In the beginning, I opt for doing it yourself, because remember, what you want is to declutter. Trying to get other people to take an interest in the clutter is a futile effort – for the moment.

    Pick your battles wisely and you will always come out the winner. In this case, your battle is not with trying to get the family to put things away, but with your cluttering tendencies.

    Win that battle first and then you can move on to the next one.

    You will have many things you will want to do to your living room, but remember to always start with the basics.

    And since this is probably not as cluttered as some of the other rooms, you probably don’t need as much ammunition to deal with it.

    · If you have odd books and things lying around the room, put them away in their places.

    · Old magazines should definitely go in the “throw” pile, as should old newspapers.

    · If your children have left their toys behind remove these to their rightful places. If they don’t have a rightful place, make one. (See “A treasure trove of toys”)

    · Stack, or put away your CD’s in any order. As long as they look neat that’s all that matters for the time being.

    If you have time on your hands after you’ve finished the living room, you can then look to put them into some semblance of order.

    · Some people might believe that coffee table books are a thing of the past, but I believe that they just migrated.

    Now, instead of finding them on the coffee table, you will probably find them on a convenient book stand or ornament rack, somewhere it looks as if it belongs.

    · Dust out your sofa. You would be amazed at the things that can fall into the crevices of your couch so be sure and declutter your sofa as well.

    · Knick knacks and the like should not be placed haphazardly around the room. If you like having little knick knacks and ornaments in your home, keep it to a minimum.

    If you have more than you know what to do with, keep some of them outside for the moment, and put the rest away.

    When you get tired of seeing the old ones outside, you can then exchange them with the ones you out away earlier.

    · To give an appearance of a fully decluttered room, you will want to keep as much space in the room as you can, free from anything, clutter and furniture alike.

    Sometimes the appearance of space can create a greater effect than if you were to change everything around.

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