Boing Boing: Merlin Mann’s decluttering roundup

From FlyLady.net:

The 27-Fling Boogie

We do this assignment as fast as we can. Take a garbage bag and walk through your home and throw away 27 items. Do not stop until you have collected all 27 items. Then close the garbage bag and pitch it. DO NOT LOOK IN IT!!! Just do it.

Next, take an empty box and go through your home collecting 27 items to give away. Suze Orman taught me this in her book, The Courage to be Rich. This will change the energy in your home and bring about good feelings. Every time I do this I feel better and my home is becoming decluttered in the process. As soon as you finish filling the box, take it to the car. You are less tempted to rescue the items.

Interesting. The rest of the website is full of useful tips, but the overall tone gets kind of icky-poo; it seems to be aimed at stay-at-home people who don’t work outside the home. But some of these suggestions seem pretty on target.

And yes, we’re pretty cluttered here. I’m just saying.

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