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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to start with the trash. If you are tackling a huge

cleaning or decluttering project, simply getting rid of the trash can make it all seem more doable,

a strategy that is helpful in more broader contexts, too. Today's tip, like another this

week, comes from Casey Davis's book, How to Keep House While Drowning. This book is about how

to maintain an organized home, even if you are in a very busy stage of life,

or if you are struggling with mental challenges that make executive functioning difficult.

Davis notes that when you survey a mess or mound of clutter, you are really looking at things

in five categories. There is trash, dishes, laundry,

things that have a home but aren't in their home, and things that don't have a home.

If you tackle one of these five categories at a time, you will have a fairly functional space by the end.

Things might not be in rainbow order, but the space will be functional.

And that is a major win.

Of those five categories, she suggests starting with the trash.

Get a bag, grab the stuff that is clearly garbage, and get it out of there.

I love this suggestion because some stuff is, in fact, clearly trash, like food wrappers

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