(1) Close the closet door. I guess it’s because the surface of a door is almost always visually simpler than the inside of a closet.
(2) Shut all drawers. A dresser drawer with just a sliver of t-shirt poking out look messy; a completely shut dresser drawer looks neat.
(3)–okay, this one takes more than a few seconds’ effort–Make the bed. Again, you get an expanse of smooth surface in the room. Even if your idea of making a bed is throwing a blanket over the lumps, it’s an improvement.
There you have it. Do you think this could be the beginning of a best-selling trendy book?
Sermons in Stones 
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January 29, 2017 at 9:17 pm
Susan Zucker
I’ve been doing this my whole life. I never leave the house with the bed unmade. I never go to sleep with the closet doors open. And I never leave an open door to run into.
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February 1, 2017 at 11:44 am
Amy Zucker Morgenstern
You not only make the bed and close the doors, but you also don’t have piles of papers on the floor, you put away clothes when you’re done with them, you wash the dishes within an hour of eating . . . That might be a bit advanced for some readers. Or even the writer. 😉
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January 30, 2017 at 8:02 am
Andrew Hidas
• Clean off the kitchen counter (the one where I dump everything “temporarily,” with the best of intentions…), when I come into the house. Did that, along with your three suggestions, just yesterday morn and earned that satisfied, bordering-on-smug internal sense of, “Behold!”
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February 1, 2017 at 11:44 am
Amy Zucker Morgenstern
Earned smugness rules!
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February 1, 2017 at 3:29 pm
affirmandpromote
This is actually a good set of tips to keep in mind for someone like myself who is at once so clutter prove, change resistant, strongly and negatively impacted by disorderly spaces, and become overwhelmed to the point of feeling unable to find a starting point and if I do I see no practical end point.
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February 1, 2017 at 3:34 pm
Amy Zucker Morgenstern
Oh, me too. Maybe I’m not change resistant–I used to carefully plan and carry out rearrangements of all the furniture in my room when I was a child–but the rest is very familiar. Something else I find helpful is a ten-minute whirlwind pickup. Set alarm, jump in, keep moving until it dings. It cuts through the overwhelm and gives me some blue sky in the midst of the where-do-I-even-start mess. Do you have something that works?
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