Organize

What is Organizing…

What exactly is organizing? Different people think differently about organizing.

The level of organizing for every person depends upon their ability and desire to reach to and access things. For someone tools kept in the garage in a big giant box is organized enough. But for someone else the big giant box just stored with tools is just not good enough. He needs to have his tools all separated and categorized in different categories and made most easily reached to when needed.

Organization is providing a structure and system. A system brings along a way of life that eventually forms a structure. Organizing doesn’t have to be expensive furniture and high end kitchen remodeling. If that would be the case I would out there shopping right now… but unfortunately our credit cards have a limit ;( .. nah but it doesn’t work like that.

The first step to organizing is to find out what your means and resources you have and how you can make the most of it. Life happens, which means as each day goes by we bring in stuff and slowly each stuff we bring in, either gets used or gets stored away. Kids outgrow clothes, we as adults sometimes fluctuate on our sizes.. , our design and decoration taste changes, technology changes. As each day goes by these clothes, decoration pieces, old phones, and obsolete electronic devices just get stuffed in the corners of the closets or boxes in the garage storage shelves.

Of what I have seen is that the some of us buy stuff with the hope of finding a use for it later in life. Markdowns, clearances, discounts sometimes end up becoming a disadvantage to many people. The purchases soon turn into clutter and eventually soon becoming a reason of stress.

When I was little my mom would say “A messy room is an unhappy room.” Back then I did not completely get what she meant, but now it’s different… I am a mom myself.. well that changes a lot and how I see things …So I know now what she meant. I tell my kids the same thing.

So where do I start? You ask.. well I think you have already taken the first and most important step, the fact that you are reading this article and looking for motivation and ways to make your space and your life clutter free and more organized is already a major step to finding help.

The most important a criterion in organizing is only keeping stuff that your space can accommodate. The more you understand and analyze this fact the easier it gets for you.

When things get organized .. they eventually make life more manageable , which results in less stress.

Over the next few months I will try to motivate and try to inspire clutter free and organized living.

Thanks for reading and stay Motivated.. J

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Backpack Solution

From the time my kids started school this year I have been looking for a solution for their backpacks. They had their backpack spots on a bookcase shelf, but I was not surprized when I rarely found them there. As my kids came back from school they would do their homework and then the backpacks would go back on the shelf. But as I expected I would soon find the backpacks on the floor. When asked about it I always got the same answer "Mom, I put it in the right place but it slipped off the shelf."


I tried a couple of things to keep them off the floor and out of the way.


This is what I finally came up with.

I used 2 Command Hooks to their bedroom door. I just made sure that the hooks are at the right height and easy for them to use. As these Command hooks are cleanly removable and reusable with a new sticker I can adjust the height as the grown taller.

So now every evening after they are done with their homework, the backpacks get hung up behind their bedroom door ready with everything they need for the next day at school.


One simple solution made it easy for them to manage their backpacks.