The Power of 3

No I am not talking about having three kids and how that impacts your life (although it really does in so very many ways....)

I have actually managed to make a dent in my problems with "horizonalitis." You know that disease where every horizontal surface gets filled up?

Here is how I have done it. I have four problem areas (kitchen counter, dining room table, my dresser, my bedside table). So what I have done is that every time I have "a minute" I take three things off of one of the surfaces and put them away, throw them out, re-purpose them, whatever it is that needs to be done with them.
By Friday afternoon I had the dining room table virtually clear. This evening the kitchen counter is significantly clearer and I have made a noticeable dent in my dresser (the bedside table has it's own issues but is definitely clearer).
The cool thing is that as the clutter has gone down I can tell my stress level goes down. It's a constant battle because I am fighting other people in the house and it is so easy to dump the mail, dump the preschool products, dump the various flotsam that we seem to come home with on a regular basis; however, I think that I am winning the battle.