Organize your books, music, and video tapes by SUBJECT -- fiction, gardening, jazz, classical, comedy, action -- and alphabetize within each subject.
LABEL each shelf or storage container with the type of media and category -- "Books: Fiction" or "Music: Jazz" -- for easy access.
You aren't the lending library, so don't keep things because someone ELSE might have use for it in the future -- pass it on!
When deciding whether or not to keep a book, compact disc, or video, ask yourself if you could get it AGAIN -- at the library or for rent -- if you needed to in the future.
Go through your entire media library once a year and CLEAN out anything that doesn't interest you anymore -- you can either sell or donate your discards.
Scan your magazine’s table of contents for articles that interest you -- RIP out those pages, put them in "to read," and toss the rest.
Store your periodicals in VERTICAL magazine boxes so you can see the spines and keep your magazines upright on your bookshelf.
Organize clipped articles in NOTEBOOKS -- each one representing a large category ("gardening") with divider tabs for sub-categories ("flowers," "shrubs," "pests").
