What's the most important thing I can do to cut down on the clutter?

What's the most important thing I can do to cut down on the clutter?

Mary Astadourian (Professional Organizer) gives expert video advice on: What typically makes up 'clutter'?; Why does so much clutter collect in my home?; What's the most important thing I can do to cut down on the clutter? and more...

I think the most important thing is to know where to put things and to go through to make a commitment to go through your piles and weed out the things that you really don't want to keep. Lots of people will keep magazines because there is an article in there that they want to read. Well, when they finally go back and look at those magazines, they can't even remember what that article was about or what it was that they saved that magazine for. That's a sign to get rid of that magazine. So you don't want to keep things that really there is no purpose for them and sometimes we forget. So, really it's like keep the stuff but tell yourself once a month, I am just going to go through this pile and whatever I am really never going to get to or really don't want, I'm going to toss it out.