I dumped the trash from all the waste baskets, too.
I added an angel holding a dove to my desk top in my small office today, from The Dollar Tree. My desk surface remains orderly. I have 2 books, red ones, in 1 stack with a red-patterned Kleenex box on top of the books with a red plastic desk cat calendar in front of the books/Kleenex in 1 corner of the back left-hand desk.
On the right-hand corner of my desk is an antique vase with a pretty summery silk flowers bouquet dfriends/neighbors made us for a house-warming gift. (We moved into our new home on 8/21/04!) We've been here 10 years, exactly!
Also, in front of the bouquet is my digital clock/calendar/thermometer with a mug of pens/pencils, a decorative black and white handled pen inside a silver pen holder with a snowman figurine, to remind me that I'm "supposed" to be doing my Christmas crochet! LOL! My timer and 1 ink pen is to the left of my laptop and my Nook Color is behind my laptop.
I just decluttered a desk drawer of 1 AARP Bulletin, 4 receipts printed off the Internet for orders, which I've already received. So why was I hanging onto the out-dated receipts?
Anyway, I vow to continue to keep my desk tidy, because it's my "shiny sink" in the office and order begets order. If we make a "shiny sink" in every room, order follows. Such as, a king-sized bed or dresser in a master bedroom could be the "shiny sink."
It's nice to get order to every room. My dining room table remains beautiful with nice place mats, a large hand-blown vase of silk sunflowers, a sea shell, etc... I make sure that my dining room table remains beautiful, so it's a welcome to us as we come into the great room area, which entails the kitchen, dining room, and great room, all together, without dividing walls. It's open and spacious, so as it remains decluttered, it's contagious and follows suit into other rooms as well.