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While it is wonderful to have a clean home [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it’s not the same thing as an organized home. Cleaning simply de-grimes your living space, while organizing requires planning and space allocation to activities and items. Cleaning can actually create clutter, since many of us hide things as we clean in order to get to the surfaces. The good news is: when you’ve taken the time to organize your home, it is also easier to clean, because nomadic items can be confidently returned to their appropriate location, and surfaces aren’t clogged with clutter.
Vicki Norris
Restoring Order
4. The Stashing Solution
A lot of us take the approach of entering a room and “getting it organized” but at the end of the day, all we’ve done is rearrange its contents. We grouped, stacked, and shuffled, but that’s as far as we could take it. We didn’t know what to do with the contents of the room, so we simply re-arranged it back into the same space. Instead, take the time to ask questions and assign a purpose of each space and organize around those purposes.
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Are you one of those people who panics when guests are scheduled to come to your house? Do you begin the frantic “dash and stash,” running around your house trying to conceal your piles of clutter? Do you slide your arm across surfaces, piled high with paper and clutter, and shove the contents into a bag or box, then stash it in the closet? If so, you are like a lot of my clients, who inadvertently have taken enticing shortcuts to true organizing.

2. The Rearranging Remedy
It is likely that at some point, we have all tidied up our space instead of organizing it, aiming for a neat appearance. This organizing mistake is especially easy to make because it feels so productive! With good intentions, many of us have
3. The Cleaning Cure-All
We stash even when we’re not cleaning. If we are trying to “pick up,” we look to the nearest empty spot to stash it. We highjack open spaces on shelves, counters and drawers, and in closets, stacking them full of odds and ends. In our attempt to get things off the floors and surfaces [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we stuff our way to a disorganized environment where nothing has a home. To stop stashing, you’ll want to observe the assigned purpose of each area of the home (ie: the game closet) and use my “Only Policy” to limit the items landing in that closet to “games only.”
1. The Product Panacea
Most people have a hall closet or spare room that contains bags of paper and clutter that have been the outcome of a “dash and stash” moment. As we sort through these time capsules, we find unpaid bills (maybe that’s why the electricity was turned off [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!), the old health insurance plan, letters and reminders, a long-lost calendar, and sometimes even treasures like un-cashed checks and precious memorabilia.
As you begin getting organized, you will likely discover bags, boxes, junk drawers, and even entire rooms that have been a receptacle for your organizing efforts. You might begin to wonder how this pile-up has happened to you. In the trenches of disorganized homes and offices across America, I’ve discovered six common shortcuts to true organizing. In reviewing them, I hope you can discover where you may have taken a wrong turn that has derailed your organizing progress:
5. The Tidying Trick
In an effort to address our disorder, we often rush off to the store and buy a hunk of plastic (usually with multiple drawers) and throw it at our mess. Product alone is not the answer. I’ve seen people with hundreds of bins and baskets who are still disorganized. I recommend partnering a good organizing process with the appropriate product introduced at the right time in the project. If you preemptively buy product without determining exactly what you want to contain and how it will improve functionality, you will likely have wasted your money.