Managing your Mail Clutter - Clutter Free Kitchen Benches

I see this all the time, lots of junk mail piled up on kitchen benches - and most of it won’t be read. Here are a few quick tips to help start managing your mail clutter.

• When you bring the mail in from the mail box, open it straight away (standing over the bin), throwing out the envelopes and any junk mail and magazines. Don’t sit the mail on the bench and  say “I will come back and sort it out later”.
• Ask yourself, will “I really read this catalogue or newspaper”?
• Once you have a pile of relevant mail you then need to decide what action to take. Many people like to keep catalogues, saying that they will read it later, but they never do. And then the pile of magazines just keeps piling up. You need to ask yourself whether you will really read it.
• You also need to set a timeframe in which you must read the item and then throw out. Take the mail out of the kitchen and into your “office” Space.
• If your kitchen bench is going to be clutter free, it is really important to get into a good habit about managing your mail. Good habits will ensure a clutter free kitchen bench.

By Natalie Morey