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Clean With Me

How To Clean Out Your Desk and Eliminate Paper Clutter

Clean With Me

Raani Starnes

Leisure, Home & Garden, Kids & Family

4.6738 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The host talks you through clearing off your desk, cleaning out the drawers, and dusting it off. She also discusses having a bill basket and what to do with old bills you don't need. And she reveals her own system for filing important documents. 
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0:00.0

dump it into one of your empty Amazon boxes or something.

0:03.4

That way, the debris and whatever little bits of dirt or whatever else is in the drawer

0:10.4

goes into that box that you're going to be tossing instead of onto your carpet.

0:18.4

I'm Ronnie, and you're listening to Clean With me, the podcast where I walk you through cleaning

0:24.3

your house step by step. When you clean along with this show, you'll get more done in less time

0:31.0

so you can spend the rest of your day doing what matters most to you. Thanks for joining me.

0:36.6

In today's episode, I'm going to talk you through cleaning and organizing your office area.

0:44.5

If you don't have an office area, this could mean just your bill paying area or your desk.

0:52.4

For me, I have a desk in the corner of my bedroom and I call that

0:57.8

corner the office. Let's get right into the episode. The first thing you're going to want to do is clear

1:04.6

off the surface of your desk. We always start with the surface cleaning. The quick win is not to clean out your drawers. We're going to get to that, but the quick win is to clear off the surface of your desk. And I'm kind of talking to myself here as well because right now the surface of my desk is covered in clutter so one thing you might want to do is toss

1:32.9

any pins that don't work during this next step but you're going to decide what you're going to do

1:38.6

with pins do you have a little pencil can that you keep pins in or do they go in a drawer? Okay, on my nightstand, I have this cute

1:50.3

metal floral pencil can, I guess, for lack of a better word, it's shaped like a can. And when I was a kid,

1:58.5

we used to use 10 cans for our pencil boxes.

2:03.4

Only a few of you are going to relate to this next part,

2:06.3

but for a lot of my school years,

2:08.1

I went to a type of Christian school called an ACE school.

2:13.1

Okay, I was in ACE from second through ninth grade.

2:19.1

And instead of desks, we had offices.

2:22.7

They were little cubicles.

2:24.2

And there were certain things that we did at the beginning of each school year to decorate our office.

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