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Resolving clutter
Use the new year as a good reason to clean out old papers and stuff

BY ELLEN S. WILKOWE
DAILY RECORD

The holiday bills have made their debut, and your filing cabinet is bursting at the seams.

Filing cabinet? Right. Maybe all your records coexist happily in one big drawer or crate.

With the dead of winter upon us, take this time to turn those piles into files. Make a paperless statement and take your transactions online. The two-fold mission instantly increases space and helps the environment.

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Recycling via the ReStore
Shop that helps fund Habitat for Humanity has had a very successful year

BY ELLEN S. WILKOWE
DAILY RECORD

The time for spring cleaning is, well, yesterday.

Not your average "open the windows, vacuum, dust and mop" cleaning -- that could always be done, well, later.

Try packing up two boxes full of bank statements, prescreened credit card offers, those outdated cell phones and even ink cartridges. (You didn't throw them out did you?)

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Learning to purge
Professional organizers help clients cut through clutter

BY LORRAINE ASH
DAILY RECORD

Cheryl Ellis found herself building shelves in the supply closet in her home office in Madison last fall. At her side was professional organizer Linda McHale of Montville.
When she opens the door today she can tell with one gaze whether she is low on folders or needs staples.

"Before the new closet I had things in boxes piled on top of other boxes on top of other boxes,” Ellis said. "Naturally, whatever I needed was always on the bottom of the bottom box."

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