Does your desk look like this picture?
I'm not a believer in 'clean desk' policies. If you are busy, there will be times when clutter is a part of the deal. However, a regular 'purge' of your working environment helps you to evaluate what you do and don't need to keep, and as a result work more efficiently.
So, find yourself a spare hour, and source a generously-sized cardboard box, plus two large bin-liners. Mark one bin-liner 'rubbish', the other with the day's date.
Starting at one corner of a room, check every item (including cupboard contents), putting rubbish in the appropriate bag, and all items you know you won't be using in the next three months in the dated bin-liner (you may need more than one dated bin-liner!).
Put any items you're not sure about in the box.
Then seal up the dated bag(s) and put away in a safe, dry place.
Dispose of/recycle the items in the rubbish bag/s.
Go through the box of odd items and find places to put the ones you really want to keep. Keep this box as a ‘limbo’ to put all subsequent items that have no immediate purpose or place, but which you cannot bring yourself to throw away. If/when it gets too full, savagely sift it and dispose of some of the items (or put them in a 'dated' bin-liner!).
If a year passes without you missing the stuff in the dated bin-liners, you almost certainly don't need the stuff. Find someone who does, or recycle/dump it.
Repeat as necessary.
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