Cut Clutter

In his book, "It's All Too Much", Peter Walsh suggests that we take five minutes each day to purge a small area of our house. If we do this five days out of every week, we will have purged 260 small areas in our home by the end of a year. Those small projects really add up.

Here's what the five-minute purge looks like:

1. Set the kitchen timer for five minutes.
2. Grab a garbage bag. The bag can be used to throw things away or drop them off at a favourite charity.
3. Pick a target--it could be one drawer in kitchen, a shelf, or the floor of a closet.
4. Clear out anything that hasn't been used for the last six months.
   
5. When the timer goes off, stop. If the bag is full, put it in the garbage (or in the car trunk so you can drop it off). If the bag isn't full, save it for the next day's purge.