As a professional organizer, I am frequently called upon to help people manage the clutter in their lives.  With that in mind, I encourage my clients to give gifts of time or gifts which are consumable, not only during the holiday season but for birthdays and other special occasions as well.
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Black Friday is one of my favorite days of the year. No, not for the shopping and so-called sales – I was born without the shopping gene, and I am also crowd averse – Black Friday has other meanings for me.
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Is your mailbox overflowing with unwelcome credit card offers, solicitations and catalogs?  Do you have a procedure for handling incoming mail? How many different phone books were delivered on your doorstep this year?
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So you have just cleaned out the medicine cabinet and you don’t know what to do with the medications you no longer need. In the past, it was recommended that pharmaceuticals be flushed away. This is no longer the case as studies reveal this can be harmful to water supplies. Water treatment plants do not remove pharmaceuticals from the water supply.
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Have you noticed that everyone seems to be doing surveys? When you buy groceries or clothing, stores issue a receipt with a number to call or a website to visit for your chance to win something if you will answer a few questions and give your opinion. This results in an extra long receipt for the added information or sometimes an extra strip of paper for you to deal with. I find all of this extra receipt paper annoying as it becomes paper clutter.
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