Inside: We’re over the halfway point with today’s challenge–decluttering paper! Piles and piles of it. Forgotten clipped recipes, half read newspapers, sales papers, pay stubs, bills, wrappers, packing slips, trash–oh my!
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Decluttering Paper
It’s Thursday, and we’re more than halfway through the 2018 Decluttering Challenge–yay! Today I’m putting myself out there–75 items. Paper abounds in most homes, except maybe some of these twenty- and thirty-somethings who have actually gone paperless. Have you heard of that? Crazy. Can’t even imagine that! Nor would I want to. I like to have a hard copy of many, though not all, things. Relying solely on a digital source doesn’t work for me, so I’ll leave that to the millennials.
Meanwhile, there is paper to be removed. What might fit into this category?
- old magazines
- old newspapers
- junk mail
- scrap paper
- used notebooks
- paid bills (whatever you don’t need to keep for your records)
- packaging
- fliers and ads
- candy and food wrappers
- miscellaneous paper (of course!)
How Did I Do?
When you write and edit for a living, you tend to have old manuscripts and stacks of magazines lying around. Today’s trash bag was heavy with paper, but did I make the quota? Yes! I got rid of 94 items, which included old magazines, scrap paper, receipts, fliers, newspapers, sales ads, and printed materials I no longer need. It’s not easy to get rid of magazines, but I’ve learned I can always tear out the pages of an article rather than keep the entire magazine. I got rid of a lot of stuff today. But . . .
Go paperless? No. Go with less paper, definitely!
From here it’s easy peasy. Tomorrow we turn to the living room. Will I find 25 things? Stop by and see.
Do you have any paper pile-ups in your house? Tell us about it in the comments.
Related posts:
Announcing Our 2018 Decluttering Challenge! (Rules for the challenge in this post.)
2018 Decluttering Challenge, Day 1: The Kitchen
2018 Decluttering Challenge, Day 2: The Spare Bedroom
2018 Decluttering Challenge, Day 3: The Junk Drawer
2018 Decluttering Challenge, Day 5: The Living Room
Resources:
Overwhelmed: How to Quiet the Chaos and Restore Your Sanity by Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory
Patsy Reiter
Amy, I cleared the kitchen countertop. One paper stack remains, but I need hard copy–like you.
Thanks for the encouragement. Patsy
amy@amyharkemoore.com
Preaching to the choir, Patsy. 😀 Paperless is, well, kind of scary. But, then, so are some of my stacks of paper! 😉