How to Organize Your Home

Learning how to organize your home starts with clearing clutter; letting go of what is no longer serving you first makes the organizing process so much easier! 

To clear your clutter in your home, it helps to start one room at a time (one drawer at a time, one shelf at a time, one closet at a time).

Many people get all fired up about clearing everything out, and then about half-way through they get overwhelmed and tired, and then they are left with a big mess on their hands.

Start small!

And allow for the feelings to come up, because that's what's really happening when you are clearing out your stuff. You are excavating your own life. You are looking into your own soul. Not simply clearing out some things.

You may also want some help (check out my group programs). Lots of people find that it is very supportive to find out they are not the only ones who have clutter to clear. 

For most people, about 75% of what is currently in their home is no longer serving the life they are living today. 75% is a lot of stuff!!

Imagine if you let go of even half of what you are keeping because you 'might need it someday.' Or because you are storing it to give to your children when they grow up (they are now three and five). Or because you are hoping to fit into those pants again.

You'd have a lot more room in your closets, wouldn't you?

Once you have gently cleared out the clutter, it's time to know how to organize your home.

Start by grouping like items together. For example, kitchen items should be in the kitchen. Bathroom items should be in the bathroom. Sheets should be stored together.

Many people have similar items put in different places all over the house. Then they wonder why they can never find anything. Or why they keep buying pairs of scissors, until they finally realize they have twelve pairs!

So store like items together.

Second, eliminate as many duplicates as possible. So rather than having emery boards in every room of the house, for example, have one really good one, keep it in your bathroom, and get rid of all the rest.

Next, create a 'home' for everything, and put everything back in its place after using it.

Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet this one simple habit will make and keep a home organized more than any other trick or technique you can possibly imagine.

See, learning how to organize your home does not have to be complicated. A few simple details go a long, long way.

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