Last week, I signed up for Beth Dargis' weekly "Simplicity Tips" email list. By doing so, I got a free download of her 2007 Declutter Calendar. Each weekday has a suggestion of something you may need to take a few minutes to declutter.

I especially like the fact that she didn't just list "things", but went into details. For example: "Soap -- Travel, decorative, bad smelling."

I have a personal dislike for clutter, and so whenever I happen to have travel bars of soap, fancy soaps, etc. I almost always make sure those get used first! I have been known to pick up bags of hotel soaps at garage sales (for free; I wouldn't pay for those annoying nuisances!) and bring them home and use them 'til they're gone!! :) And yes, by all means: If you have bad-smelling soap, get rid of it!!

Give yourself a time limit. "If I haven't used this in a week, I'm never going to use it. (I've already had it for years.)" Giving myself a time limit usually either motivates me to actually use the thing or else realise that it's worthless (to me).

Another example: "Hangers -- Wire ones that tangle, too many." So often we end up with a "collection" of a good thing that's so huge it hampers our space and makes an easy organization task into a nearly impossible one.

Beth's website also had some organization resources, and you can visit Beth's blog here. I know there are probably a lot of organization resources online (although I basically never have time to actually search for those sorts of things!) but I like Beth's simple, "one little thing at a time" approach to decluttering, organizing, and simplifying! :)