No Flyers Please

Happy Thanksgiving to you! I will be celebrating this lovely Thanksgiving long weekend by cleaning up my apartment a bit. The last few weeks have been busy and although I am sad to admit it, the cleanliness and tidiness of my home has suffered...how undomestic of me!

The best thing about cleaning up your neglected living space is how much more organized and welcoming it feels. I always find that when my apartment is cluttered it makes everything harder to find and I feel stressed by the overwhelming amount of things that need to be done. A cluttered home = a cluttered mind. And that is a scientifically proven mathematical equation. Sure I could try to shove all that clean laundry that is sitting in a pile on my desk into my closet and dresser drawers. Sure I could pick up all those flyers I never looked at and throw them in a bag to be recycled. Sure I could probably even take the recycling downstairs. But I prefer to do one step at a time here people.

Here is a cool initiative from The Gap that may help you clean out your closet a bit.

It's called Recycle Your Blues. Until October 20th you can take in your overly worn, never worn, or worn-once-but-spilled-paint-on-them jeans and get 30% off a new pair (that you will hopefully be a bit more careful with next time, please). And if you "Like" it on facebook they will give you another 10% off! Not bad, not bad at all. That's all fine and dandy but what's going to happen with those jeans? They will recycled and turned into cotton insulation and donated to disadvantaged communities.

"The Gap and Cotton Incorporated collected more than 270,000 pairs of jeans last March for their first denim drive. The donated jeans were converted into insulation for 500 homes in need, and for projects including Hurricane rebuilding efforts".

As for those flyers that obnoxiously pollute my front hallway everyday, I am putting up a No Flyers sign.

Do you have ways you reduce the clutter in your home?