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Sep 29 2011

{Decluttering} Mt Junk Mail

Category: Declutter

{From the Archives}

Task 28 – Throw away all junk mail

Majority of mail we recieve is junk mail.  It is easy to accumulate a mountain of it especially in your busy zones such as the kitchen bench, dining table or the office desk, which makes these area’s look untidy.

Take control of your junk mail! 

Use one of these examples to rid of your Mt Junk Mail:

  1. As soon as you collect the mail from the mail box, look through your junk mail, it will only take a few minutes then when finished throw  it directly into your recycle bin, you don’t need to keep it.  However if you have the desire to keep a catalogue put it in a designated place and don’t forget to throw it out when the sale is over.
  2. Leave today’s pile next to the stove top so you can look through them while waiting for dinner to cook.  Place in recycle bin as soon as you have finished.
  3. Read through them during an ad break of a TV show.  Place in recycle bin as soon as you have finished.

I keep a recycle bin in the bottom of the pantry and it get’s emptied each day or so.  The only catalogue I keep is from woolworths, it’s kept in my intray on my office desk.  The catalogue helps me to see which groceries are on special to write on my shopping list each Sunday night.

 

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  • http://www.sanityorbust.blogspot.com Natalie

    I do this! I keep the catalogue I want clipped up with my shopping list, and recycle when the new one comes.

    I have started taking photos of things in other catalogues and storing on my phone, so I can see what I wanted, but don’t need to keep the paper.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=562468654 Kim Jarrold on Facebook

    I have a box in the house for recycling when I have finished reading the catalogues they get thrown in the blue box. Once the box is filled or it is the day before recycling is collected I will or get one of the kids to empty the box into the recycling bin.

  • Michelle K

    It’s amazing how much junk mail is delivered weekly. Not looking forward to the Christmas deliveries. I try to look through it all and recycle what I’m not interested in straight away. We empty our recycling bucket into the recycling bin every second day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1579634219 Leanne Springer on Facebook

    I definitely needed this decluttering task – my mail has gotten out of control :-)

  • http://shambolichome.wordpress.com Harriet

    I bring the junk mail in (along with the actual mail) and stand at my bench in the kitchen and sort into three piles each night:

    Bin – envelopes, unwanted catalogues, by-mail junk etc
    Action – Bills to be paid, items of interest, the school newsletter
    File – Items to be kept eg receipts

    Bin goes straight into the recycling as soon as I’m done; action goes into the Action File and file goes into the filing file. Once a week, I sit down with the Action file and the File file and well, action then file.

    I don’t keep catalogues at all. I will rip what I am interested in and chuck the rest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1494591374 Anna La Rosa Brown on Facebook

    I did this, this morning too.

  • http://beccsdomesticbliss.blogspot.com Becci Sundberg

    I’m pretty good with junk mail. Sometimes it doesn’t even make it inside. I’ll check through the pile sting I’ll put it straight into the recycling.
    Other times I’ll sort through it all while reading the rest of the mail. All the unwanted stuff goes in one pile (catalogues, envelopes etc), catalogues that I want to read go into my inbox tray, and the bills etc go into another inbox tray. I put the recycling out straight away so it doesn’t clutter up my bench.

  • http://www.blossomheartblog.com Alyce

    I sort out what I want to read and throw away the rest then. Then once they’re read, they go out too.

  • http://www.puddlesandgumboots.com Kate @ Puddles and Gumboots

    These are great tips! My problem is mainly if I’ve kept a catalogue because I want something from it to remember to throw it out when the sale is done

  • http://beccsdomesticbliss.blogspot.com Becci Sundberg

    Kate We go though our inbox area at least once a week. I can then get rid of catalogues that I have kept and no longer need then, rather than having to remember when the sales finished

  • http://fattyfintoskinnyminnie.blogspot.com/ Adalita

    I photograph the bits from the catalogue and then throw it out. I sit down of an afternoon while having a coffee and sort through them and the mail. Once a week I transfer letters and bills from the Kikki-K A4 archive box to my folder. We have one for each of our taxes and one folder for invoices for the house and another for ideas & stuff. I’m looking forward to having a dedicated space for them all in my house soon. Currently mine sit on top of my Pc an my partners is on the TV/Stereo speaker. Being in a small granny flat we have lots of clutterin such a small space. I can’t wait to have a finished and organised house. Only a month until we move back in but a while until we are all finished.

  • Bec

    The only junk mail that comes into my house is the Ikea and Howards Storage World catalogues, which live on my desk with post-its marking the things I want. For every other catalogue I use lasoo.com.au, if I have any interest I may write down items I want with store and sale ending date on a post-it which I put in my wallet and throw once I purchase the item or the sale ends.