If you wish to keep your work space clean and uncluttered, you can follow these organizing and cleaning tips:

Avoid eating and drinking at your work station. This will keep the crumbs accumulating at your desk. This will also help keep your desk stain free. Go to the break room instead if you want to eat snacks and drink coffee. This would also keep you more focused on your work too.

This is also the same for personal grooming. Make-up and other cosmetics can help clutter your desk, and these also provide higer risk of stains as well. Keep the grooming in the restroom.

Although personalizing your desk is fine, limit it so that your desk won’t be covered by various knick knacks which are of no use to you anyway. Use folders and other organizing tools so you don’t end up having paperwork scattered all over.

Clean up at the end of the day. Throw away candy wrappers. Shred confidential paper and put others in the paper recycling box or bin.