So I recently finished grad school, and now that I'm out, I need to really get my room out of it's current state of disaster and dysfunction. The problem is I don't know how to deal with all my extra "stuff" and my mountains of paper. (I live in a Manhattan apartment, so I only have so much room). I have no problems organizing other rooms, like kitchens or bathrooms, mainly because it makes "sense" to me where to put everything. But my room (in which I do basically everything besides cooking and bathroom stuff) is always a problem.

Has anyone here had success in : 1) paring down and/or making organizational sense of a lot of disparate "stuff"? and/or 2) organizing paper in a way that is effective?

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