Tip: Practice organizing. The trick to getting better and mastering the skill of organizing is to practice. Think for a minute of what advice you’d give yourself (or your son or daughter) if you wanted to improve your golf swing. You’d tell yourself to practice. The same applies to organizing. I’d recommend practicing organizing for at least 15-20 minutes every day.
Tip: According the American Heritage Dictionary on my shelf, the word clutter as a noun is defined as “a confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble”. As a verb the word clutter is defined as “to litter or pile in a disordered manner”. I often here my clients refer to it as their random things, mounds of stuff, or piles of junk.
The three best ways to combat clutter are:
1. Have a designated place where your items, things, and stuff belong, and return them there.
2. Schedule daily and weekly purging in your most lived-in areas of your home.
3. Allow less to come into your home. For example: less paper, mail, trinkets, and purchases
We were fortunate to have had such a mild winter, but aren’t you happy spring is here? I am. I especially like all the vibrant colors of spring, but we couldn’t have those colors without a few rain drops. As we enter the month of April with all its rain showers, I want to talk to you about faulty windshield wipers. Specifically, how I see those wipers as being just like the lack of maintenance in the process of organizing.
We all know what it’s like when our car windshield wipers don’t work; they leave smudges and streaks; they create vision problems; we have to keep spraying and cleaning; they’re frustrating. Those smudges and streaks are like pockets of clutter and piles of stuff. Those vision problems are like stress and its side effects. The constant spraying is like our procrastinated efforts to organize. And the frustration is just that, frustration.
Maintaining order takes time and some self discipline, but the key is to not give up or let the situation get out of control. My top 5 maintenance tips are…
Please share with me what works for you.
Tip: Kick space is space in your closet that you can easily kick into, without your foot coming into contact with anything. This often indicates that the space isn’t being used efficiently or to it’s maximum capacity. If you have room to kick without hitting anything, you have room in your closet that could be used more efficiently.
Here are some organizing products can you use to reduce the kick space in your closet: low dressers, low shoe racks, hanger extensions, additional shelves, stack-able shoe boxes, stack-able bins or another hanging rod.
Tip: Air space is space in your cupboards and closets that is occupied with air only. To make the most of the precious real estate in your cupboards and closets use organizing products that minimize air space.
To minimize air space in your cupboards:
adjust shelves, if you can
add raisers and platforms
use stack-able containers
mount stemware units to the underside of a shelf
used step raisers, lazy Susan’s, long baskets and pull out drawer units
To minimize air space in your closets:
adjust hanging bars
use hooks
add additional shelves or hanging bars
use tiered hangers
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