Cure Your “Flat Surface Disease” - RealSimple Magazine Feature

Many people are visual thinkers and like to have all of their things our where they can see them. The end result: their tables, desks, and countertops are covered with stacks of paperwork and other items. “I call this flat surface disease,” says Cosentino.

Fortunately, it’s curable.

After you’ve divided all of the countertop clutter into piles of like things, find homes for all of them. If piles of mail are a problem, find a container to put them in. When that container isfull, cshedule time to sit down and go through it, throwing away as much as you can.