# No Piles Rule

Source: https://www.theminimalists.com/piles/
Published: 2022-10-05
Updated: 2024-06-11
Author: The Minimalists

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Every flat surface is a magnet for clutter.\
 Check the mail, set it on a counter, dresser, table.\
 In short order, one envelope becomes a dozen.

Receipts, packages, notes, bags, pocket scraps accumulate.\
 Before you know it, you’re buried under piles of un-dealt-with junk.

Fear not! Here’s our one-minute\
 TikTok solution: [The No Piles Rule](https://www.tiktok.com/@theminimalists/video/7146743765183597867?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6971166595336177157).

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