If You Were Not Born with the Organizing Gene - Move to Another Room

If you are not among the fortunate 35% of the population that have been organized since birth, do not despair. The trick to having an organized home (life) is simple. The reason that organized people don’t spend half their waking hours searching for things, is not they possess photographic memories. They understand intuitively that they can retrieve whatever they need, as long as those things reside in the areas in which they are used.

Try to imagine a shopping experience in your home. Does your house or apartment resemble a department store? Stores are designed to assist people in finding what they need. A large store would no sooner combine kitchen gadgets with lingerie than they would offer baked goods and snow tires at the same counter. When applying this concept to your own living space, think of how you organize your storage, closets and rooms. Do you have closets that are repositories for cartons of books, gift wrap, mountains of greeting cards received over the years as well as clothing? Are you storing paperwork in your kitchen cupboards, bedroom side tables and your home office? Do you scatter tools in every room in the house? Are there extra dishes in the bathrooms?

Do a walk through in your own home. Bring a large box or shopping bag. Root out those possessions that don’t belong in the rooms where they currently reside and move them to another room – the room where they are actually utilized. You will save time, money and feel in control.