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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Done is better than perfect.

What I do is: drink a coffee, put on some music or an interesting podcast to keep me entertained, and get to work on one area--pick a small-ish area to start out like the kitchen counter or a bookshelf and then once you get some momentum going you can expand to a larger area at a time like a whole closet :)-- I go through and sort items into 4 piles: items to keep, items to donate to Goodwill or wherever you donate things, items to pass on to a family member/friend, items to throw out. If it seems overwhelming or like you're creating an even bigger mess, maybe take a short break but I've found that the break should be only about 5-10 mins because any longer and you'll just give up entirely.

Paper is the hardest thing for me. I'm a very sentimental person and have a hard time getting rid of things my kids created or things related to their school work or cards/notes I've received. So for those sentimental items I display a few of my favorites on the fridge or on the wall of my kids' rooms and then I limit myself to a small box per kid (that is kept under their bed) for any additional art work and school work that's special and one small box for me for letters/cards I'd like to save. And I take a picture of each thing that I wind up discarding before I recycle/trash it. I'll probably never do anything w/ those pictures again (I have seen a website where you can create a book of your kids' art but I doubt I'd ever actually do that) but it makes it easier for me to throw the art away knowing I have at least kept a picture of it. Then we have a file box where we keep important papers/documents stored. I have a file for each family member w/ birth certificates, passports, etc. and then a file for the house, the cars, health stuff, insurance stuff, etc. so it's easy to keep that stuff organized and always know to put it back in the same spot so we don't lose it.

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I agree, paper is so hard! 
I filled up my phone yesterday photographing some papers so I could recycle them.[/quote]

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