How Will You Enjoy Your "Found Time" This Year!

Kim Wolinski, MSW
“Dr. DeClutter” www.drdeclutter.com

How Will You Enjoy Your "Found Time" This Year!

On average Americans lose one (1) hour a day searching for misplaced objects. That’s not to mention
a) the loss in money, re-purchasing the same items over and over again, and
b) the emotional and mental costs of stress, guilt, shame, embarrassment and self-loathing or blame.

Count it up! This is "found time", and can certainly be used for better things... like a vacation, reading, your hobby, your children, friends, family... you name it!

I have many stories shared with me on an ongoing basis about this frustration as well as my hands-on personal examples from organizing jobs in homes and offices. (If you think any of these are you... you might be correct... or not!)

Here are just a very few of the items I’ve decluttered and sorted at jobs over 5 1/2 years of organizing. Items lost and misplaced that added up to hours of wasted time, energy and money. Each line item from a different client/job:

- 10 bottles of prescription medication
- 8 uncashed checks for $1,500 and $600.00 cash
- $400.00 in gift cards unsent from the previous Christmas
- $600.00 in gift cards and gift certificates, now expired
- 27 pair of reading glasses, 10 reading glass cases
- 4 TV remotes
- 4 garage remotes
- 9 valid credit cards
- 3 valid passports
- 6 needed computer programs
- Four-year old wedding present wrapped, never sent
- 2 check books
- 26 cans of soup, past expiration date
- 32 gallon cans of freeze dried food and protein powder
- Approximately 80 items of bulk purchases: mustard, tomato sauce, toothpaste, deodorant, lotion, razors, soy sauce
- 25 candles
- 3 ski passes
- 8 gold and silver chains/jewelry

Get organized and take a GREAT vacation with your time and energy saved. Send me a post card!!

©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert

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