Going from clutter to clean

Here are a few tips to keep your house less cluttered!

House Rule 1) Everything Has Its Optimal Place- Newspapers don't go by the door so decide where things should go and start putting them there today!
House Rule 2) Put Things Back in Their Place Immediately-It's far to easy to take things out, get distracted with something else, and forget to put them back making clutter! Think of ice cream, you take it out and when you are done with it you put it right back. You don't leave it out an hour or you'll be sorry you did...or will you?
House Rule 3) Alert the troops- Make sure everyone in the house knows that there is a new housecleaning plan and they stick by it. Otherwise you will be doing all of this by yourself (which is very frustrating) and in vain! It may take awhile for the family to catch on, but once they see how much more smoothly things are ran at home, they'll jump on board too!