Workspace and Junk mail

This section I think everyone can relate to because everyone gets annoying junk mail and have a cluttered work space in their home. It was time to figure out how I stop the annoyance and help housekeeping and maintenance.

family context:

In my house we don't really have a designated office area, but my sister and I both have desks in our room and there is another in the downstairs living room. All of which are found covered in clutter and in the kitchen the side table has piles of mail. We don't get too much junk mail, but with two high schoolers we do get a lot of college mail.

My plan:

While many areas can be considered workspaces I chose to focus on the desks and kitchen table space because the garage is too cold in January. Some things I wanted to try were:

Identify which utensils work (and when buying new ones buy refillable or recyclable ones)
Refill ink cartridges at Walgreens
Unsubscribe from mailing companies
Refuse paper as much as possible

What actually happened:

I deep cleaned my desk and recycled a ton of papers that I didn't need anymore. I'm also not the person to leave emails unread, so as I received them I unsubscribed to colleges and companies I had no intention of using. The rest of our junk mail was recycled for the most part. We didn't need to refill our ink cartridges, but once we do that is something I'm going to look into. I also tried to make lists and notes on my phone or computer rather than a notepad as much a possible.

Organized desk utensils that work

Data analysis:

The past eight weeks finally paid off because we were able to get this week's garbage bag count to only ONE! Now that we have a way to recycle or eliminate most of the things we consume and use there isn't much left to throw away. It took eight weeks to reduce our waste by 75%.

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