Just One More Thing

Friday is apartment cleaning day. I am fortunate to live in an apartment complex where we can have our apartments cleaned every other week. Friday is my day. Because housekeeping is coming, I make an extra effort to ” pick up” the place, and put out more trash. That has helped me keep living simply — that little effort each week on “garbage day.” Although housekeeping comes every other week, I’ve gotten into the habit of doing the extra effort each Friday.

Have you thought about making your garbage pick up day an opportunity to get rid of just one more thing? That is a great night to put the mental and physical effort into ridding yourself of clutter — they take it away right away. No second chances while the item sits around.

Quick places to check include: old take-home food in the back of the refrigerator, unrecognizable frozen items in the freezer, “junk” mail you haven’t read that week (don’t worry — you’ll get more next week and if you were really interested, you would have read it by now). Be sure to shred your address.