Organizing is my passion - I've been doing it all my life. I think that may be true of many of my professional organizer colleagues - I know it's definately true about me. I was always the child held up as an example by my friends mothers as the one they would like their little girl to emulate. This didn't really cause a problem for me because my friends seemed to agree with the wisdom of their mom's desires. Also I was pretty affable and I actually seemed to enjoy cleaning up all of our toys after play time.
As time went on, I developed a minimalist philosphy which manifested itself by not purchasing "things" I didn't need or saving (and thus having to store) items that had outlived their usefulness. I taught myself certain tricks that helped to weed out the extraneous in my life and found I could simplify my world considerably by actually owning less. I called it "creating breathing room" and so it was.
Posted by: Barbara Tischler in residential organizing, organizing tips, organizing homes, how to organize, home organizing, home organization, disorganized, disorganization, decluttering, declutter, de-cluttering, de-clutter, clutter on
Apr 21, 2009
It’s spring-cleaning time.
Choose an area to de-clutter, and gather a large garbage and/or recycle container, a box or boxes for donations/garage sale/consignment, and a box for items that go elsewhere -- i.e., don’t belong in the area you are de-cluttering. Sort items into these containers, and then deliver the “goes elsewhere” items to their proper places.
The above organizing tip is taken from my booklet, "36 Home Organizing Ideas for Your Family Around the Year". This 16-page booklet provides month-by-month, timely tips to help you and your family organize your home. My booklet also makes a great gift to friends, family, colleagues, clients, and potential clients. You can even choose to add your company logo and/or information to the booklet. To order one or more copies of my booklet, please go to http://www.thecluttercoach.com/booklet.html.
Declutter your home and reduce your stress
#1 Reason to Declutter is to reduce the amount of stress in your life. The world, economy and environment are changing at a rapid pace and if you allow it, stress will creep in. One area that you can take charge of your stress is with the reduction of the clutter in your life. We have all become accustomed to the availability of what we want, when we want it and without knowing or meaning to, we have cluttered our lives with "stuff" that we don't need and can definitely live without.
Consider how you feel when you arrive home after a long day at work...not taking into fact that you may have to add several hours for a commute. Does the stress immediately hit you like a brick across the back of your head? And from the moment you step into the door, the children are hungry, homework needs to be done, dinner needs to be cooked and the house is a wreck! There just aren't enough hours in a day to get everything accomplished. By the time that you finish everything on your list it is after 10:00 and you are finally sitting down to "enjoy" some time with your spouse but you can hardly keep your eyes open because...in 6-7 hours it all begins again. And the clutter builds and builds and builds.
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