Clutter Can Make Your Home Feel Stressful! By Jackie Stewart- Prudential Select Properties

In unexpected guests call to say they will be at your place in 20 minutes, will you be ready in the amount of time? If not, your home is too cluttered! The best test, of course is how you feel when you look at your place.

If you find it's a stressful maze of stuff, taking action is a must. According to Donna Smallin, author of :Unclutter Your Home: 7 Simple Steps, 700 Tips and Ideas", You should start by vowing to spend 20-30 minutes a day de-cluttering.

*Tackle one room at a time, decide what you can do without, what to keep, and what to trash.

*Store the keepers where you use them. Put items on the kitchen counter that you use every day. Keep in-season clothes in the center of the closet.

*Buy a basket for each room to store related items: towels in the bathroom, envelopes, stamps and pens in the kitchen, hats and gloves by the door. Books and magazines in the den.

* Give away unneeded things to friends or charities.

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