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At home, our personal space flows into our work space. Don’t let i Laundry belongs in the laundry room. Dishes belong in the kitchen. Mai belongs in a designated mail area. None of these things belong on you desk. Almost all of my respondents said their cluttering got worse where they worked at home. Even if you don’t have a separate room for an office, there is hope. Mary French was profiled in the Wail Street Journal for her philanthropic project of putting a dictionary into the hands of every third- grader in South Carolina (www.dictionatyproject.org). She works from a Lble in her living room. Still, she keeps personal mail and clutter from ntruding. She’s learned the “sacred space” principle of keeping only things bat belong in one place.

“I keep only business-related items on the table. don’t have a PDA. I keep everything in my head.”
“Others in the household may also have the tendency to use the workspace designated for the home office and leave items behind on the desk. So not only is there the challenge of keeping the business stuff organized, but you are constantly moving other family stuff out of the way so you can work.”
—Nancy Kruschke, Professional Organizer