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Every year when January rolls around you vow to lose weight, save money or spend more time with family and friends. But what goals do you set for your home? In the spirit of new beginnings, we've come up with some resolutions that will make your home a more beautiful, efficient, clean and green place in the coming year. Here are our top five picks for starting the new year right: Streamline the stuff One of the best and least expensive ways to feel better about your home is to clear it of clutter. Each year most of us acquire a mountain of stuff. Without some regular purging, cabinets and drawers get jam-packed and it becomes hard to find the things you use and enjoy the most. This year resolve to go room-by-room periodically clearing anything that you don't use, wear or love and donate it to charity. Consider instituting this post-holiday rule: for every new item (bathrobe, earrings, slippers) that arrives, three things have to say adios. Stash useful (but not beautiful) items such as DVDs, remotes and those kicked-off shoes. If woven baskets fit with your style these make great storage solutions, remember that tucking away items in a console or jelly cabinet also achieves the clutter free look and keeps those needed items at hand but out of sight.