 Do you constantly struggle with the chore of tackling your laundry? Do you feel like you can never seem to get ahead? Clothes spill onto the floor of the laundry room. Hampers are overflowing, and laundry is taking over your dining room table. Dirty and clean unfolded laundry seems to be taking over your home.
I work with many moms who are overwhelmed by laundry. You can add more overwhelm and stress to this if you are disorganized. Here are 10 helpful tips to help reduce the overwhelming effect that laundry causes: Plan ahead. Take a look at your schedule on a Friday for the following week and see where there are any holes in your schedule that you can dedicate to tackling your laundry. You can also pick one day during the week and choose this as your laundry day. Pre-sort. If you get overwhelmed with sorting all of the clothes, keep sectioned laundry baskets in everybody’s rooms. Get everybody on board with the system and follow up with everybody on a regular basis to make sure the system is being followed. Separate by person. How many mismatched socks do you have? Eliminate the lost sock issue by keeping every family member’s laundry separate. Have a basket for each family member. Wash each family member’s clothes separately. You’ll never lose clothes again. Complete the task. Wash your laundry, take it out of the dryer and fold it right away. Break down this process. Don’t continue throwing washes in and neglect to fold them. This is how you end up with missing or mismatched socks. Do a wash, put another wash in and fold the load that just came out of the dryer. If you’re tackling a few loads, you can fold it all at once, but be sure it gets done by the time all of the laundry is done. It won’t take you as long as you think it will. You’ll spend more time stressing about it when you could’ve just tackled it and been done with it. Folding station. If you’re washing loads by person, fold in or near the room where everything is stored. If you have a washer/dryer in the basement, don’t bring the clothes up to the dining room or den to fold. Bring the laundry to the room that it belongs in and fold there and save time. Delegate. If your kids are old enough, enlist them to do their own laundry. If you don’t trust them with the washing machine; dry their clothes, put them in their designated basket and leave them on their bed for them to fold and put away. They will have to eventually do this at some point in their life. Why not start them early? It will make it even easier for them to put them away if they have an organized and systemized bedroom. Is it really dirty? Are the clothes you wore for a few hours really dirty? How many clothes are you washing that are actually clean? Your clothes will last longer if you don’t wash them as much. Re-use. How many times do you use the towel you shower with? Can you go a few days or so with that one towel? You are clean when you get out of the shower; think about getting a few more days out of that towel. Organize your laundry room. Nothing is worse than working in an inefficient space. Keep everything you need on hand in this room. Create systems just as you would in any other room in your home. Regardless of how little space you may have, you can create systems and function efficiently in this room. Make it easy. Create a simple system that will eliminate stress and overwhelm. Be sure everybody’s rooms are organized. Putting away laundry into an organized space is sometimes half the battle. If closets and drawers are organized, with a little maintenance, items will stay folded and hung nicely. While you’re getting laundry done, think of other things you can get done at the same time while your loads are in the wash. You could plan and prepare lunches for the week. You could plan outfits for the week or you can get other work done. Think of the buzzer on the dryer as a timer for managing your time and try to get tasks done between loads. Get into a routine with tackling your laundry. Plan ahead. Fold laundry right away. Follow some or all of the tips above and tweak them to work for you. Sit for a minute and map out how you want to function with your laundry routine and put a plan into motion.  Have you ever thought about how the clutter in your bedroom is affecting your mood? I’m not even talking about your closets; let’s just discuss your bedroom. Instead of putting you in the mood, does it put you in a totally disgusted mood?
I took a survey and asked people to describe how they felt about their bedrooms. I received all types of responses. Some stated it makes them tired, stressed, and overwhelmed. Others said it’s a big mess and it’s not very sexy. Then there are the people who are functioning well in their bedroom and are happy, and felt like they created a calm space. Some were hopeful that they would get it to where they needed it to be. If you have negative feelings about your bedroom, it’s time to give it a makeover! Declutter, create working organized systems, rearrange the furniture, give it a good cleaning and you can have a new room in a day! What’s holding you back? Take a minute, grab a pen and paper and stand in the doorway of your bedroom and take a look around. I’m asking you to do this because sometimes you get so used to what’s in this room that everything just starts to blend together. For some, it’s easier to continue functioning this way than to actually tackle this project. Use the following questions to help you create a plan to move forward. What’s on the floor? Is it anything that you use on a daily, weekly basis? Are you stepping over clothes when you enter the room? Do you know what’s clean and what isn’t? What else lands on the floor besides clothes? What’s hiding under the bed? You might find empty water bottles, Kleenex, trash, and other random items. Keep under the bed clean unless you are using it for contained storage. What’s happening on the tops of your bureaus? What’s on top of here that doesn’t need to be out in the open? Keep the tops of your bureaus fresh and clear of clutter. You’ll find that there may be some dust, because it’s difficult to clean when there is clutter in the way. What do you keep on your nightstand? The nightstand may be the first thing you see when you open your eyes in the morning. Are there magazines covered in dust? Are there random items that don’t need to be there? Evaluate what is here and how often it’s used. Is there paper clutter in this room? Unless you have a home office in the bedroom with working systems to contain your paper, keep paper out of your bedroom. It’s a distraction and will add to your mental clutter. Any paper piles hanging around will keep you wondering if there’s something important in there. What’s holding you back? If your bedroom is killing your mood, what’s holding you back from making the change? Create a vision of how you want to feel and function in this space. If you’re overwhelmed, don’t look at your bedroom as one big project. Break the room into small manageable projects. Every day you procrastinate on this project is another day you’re not experiencing what it’s like to have a room that’s pure bliss! You can achieve this goal and once you do, you’ll be asking yourself why you didn’t tackle this sooner! You’ll be amazed at how you’ll feel once it’s completed!  Your bedroom should be a place of serenity. Clutter shouldn’t be the first thing you see when you awake in the morning and it shouldn’t be the last thing you look at before you go to sleep. Create a peaceful, calming atmosphere in your bedroom.
Here are 10 tips to a peaceful, relaxing bedroom.
Your bedroom should not make you feel anxious or stressed. This is a room where we recharge, refresh and get revitalized. The bedroom should not be disorganized or cluttered. Make it a sanctuary and a retreat where you can go to find sanity and serenity.  Let’s face it, do you really want to wake up or go to sleep next to a dust-filled, cluttered nightstand? It’s usually one of the first things you see when you open your eyes in the morning and one of the last things you see when you close them at night. Is there so much clutter, that you’ve become so used to looking at it that you’ve forgotten what is actually taking up space there?
What’s on your nightstand? What’s taking up space on this nightstand and how much of it are you actually using? Does it really belong there? You are going to find medication, lotions, books, jewelry, money, memorabilia, electronics, hair accessories, gift cards, and I could list a hundred more things that I’ve found in this space when working with clients. You name it, I’ve probably found it! Take inventory. I want you to take everything off and out of this piece of furniture. As you touch each piece, make your piles of keep, toss, or move to another room. Categorize your keep items as you go. As you take inventory, really think about what needs to stay here and be honest about what you’re using on a daily or weekly basis. Here’s a good gauge if you should keep it there: If it’s collecting dust, it’s been there too long and it’s either time to get rid of it or move it to another area in your home where it will get used. Organize. You’ll want this space to be as serene as possible, just like your bedroom. If you must keep small items here, keep them categorized and itemized in drawer organizers. Remember, that drawers in a nightstand are not supposed to be junk drawers or a catch all for things you don’t know what to do with. Really ask yourself, “How much do I need to keep here?” Remember, the least amount of distractions you have in the bedroom, the better you’ll sleep. It’s time to tackle this quick project. It won’t be so overwhelming if you just schedule this one project on your calendar and commit to tackling it. Block off ½ an hour for this project. It’s not going to take you that long, but give yourself some structure and a time frame. Take note to how you feel once you accomplished this project.  How much money do you think you’re wasting in the kitchen? I can tell you that in every kitchen I’ve organized; at least 3 full garbage bags of expired food get tossed. When was the last time you took everything out of your food pantry down to bare shelves? How many of you actually know what’s hiding in the dark corners of your food cabinets?
Here are 5 ways to save money by having an organized kitchen Itemize and categorize food. There is a great sale at the market for buy two get two free. You get home and there isn’t enough room on one shelf for the items. You end up storing them all over the closet. You now have 4 of the same item floating in different areas. Six months later, you clean out and organize your closet and find those bottles and they have expired. Initially, you thought you were saving money on this great deal but you have just wasted money and thrown it into the garbage along with the food. Keep like items categorized and stored together so it’s easy to find things. Plan ahead. When going to the market, make meal plans ahead of time and then make your food shopping list from your organized food pantry. You’ll avoid purchasing duplicate items and wasting money on things you already have. Many people make the mistake of not checking their food cabinet before they head to the market. Not planning ahead will also allow you to make impulsepurchases and you’ll end up spending more than you planned. Paper products. Don’t forget about paper products, dishes and utensils you keep stocked for casual events or outdoor parties. Keep all these items grouped together. When you’re planning your party, you’ll know exactly what you need to purchase and you won’t be purchasing duplicate items and wasting money. Junk drawers. Many people have junk drawers in the kitchen. Do you really need a junk drawer in the kitchen? Could you utilize that space better? Empty your junk drawer and you may be surprised at what you find. You spent $100 at Target last week but you just found a Target gift card in the back of your junk drawer. You may be wasting money if you are keeping a disorganized junk drawer. Everything should have a home. Never again purchase a duplicate item because you forgot you had it or you couldn’t remember where you placed it. Keep items grouped and categorized together. Don’t scatter items all over the kitchen. When items are categorized together, you’ll know immediately where to find something and you won’t waste money purchasing duplicate items. How are you functioning in your kitchen? Are you wasting time, money and energy in your kitchen? Create a kitchen where you can be efficient and productive. It’s time to give your kitchen an overhaul and have less stress, more free time and more money in your pocket.  Disorganization is a distraction and will cause you to feel overwhelmed, stressed, and stuck. When you are trying to lose weight, these are the last things you want to feel. What happens when we are stressed and overwhelmed? We eat to feed our emotions. Being organized in your kitchen will help you in your weight loss journey.
Here are 6 steps to an organized kitchen
 Do you wish there were more hours in the day? Do you find that you are always busy but not much is getting accomplished? How well are you managing your time at home?
If you are disorganized, you probably aren’t as efficient and productive as you’d like to be. Time management and being organized go hand in hand. When both are in alignment, you’ll be working at peak performance. Here are 8 ways to be more efficient at home Get organized. You can’t do anything else in this list until you conquer this first. If you want to become more efficient, you have to get organized. You can’t become an efficient person if you are surrounded by piles, clutter and don’t have working systems in place. Have systems in place. Once you get organized, create processes and systems for everything you do in your home. Once you give each space a purpose in your home, then you can create a system and process for the things that live in that space. Streamline processes. Once your systems are in place and you work with them for a little, you’ll realize that you can streamline them. Try to take a task from 7 steps down to 3. Think about how you can make that task as simple as you can. Have less. The less useless stuff you have in your home that’s just taking up space, the easier tasks will get in your home. The less stuff you have, the less you have to think about. Everything will get easier. It’s also going to be easier to clean your home. You’ll be more efficient because you can move quicker through your home. Think “grab and go.” When you are getting ready to go out in the morning or evening, you want to be able to find what you are looking for immediately and grab it. When you need to leave your house, you want to be able to grab items and go. This can only happen if all of the above falls into place. Keep to-do lists. Clear the mental clutter and keep daily to-do lists. The clearer your thinking is, the more efficient you’ll be. When you hang onto mental clutter, it takes you longer to process and remember things you need to do. Schedule household chores. Get onto auto pilot when it comes to tackling household chores. Make a list of everything you tackle in your home on a weekly basis and add it to your to-do list. Schedule days for laundry, house cleaning, food shopping, errands. Plan and prepare. If you can plan and prepare, you’ll free up time during the week to focus on more important things that need your full attention. Plan your outfits, plan your meals, plan where you need to be for the week and watch how much more efficient you will become. Remember, none of the above can be accomplished if you aren’t physically organized. Make a plan to get organized and then focus on becoming more efficient and productive. You’ll save money, have more free time, less stress and you’ll be more focused. You’ll be running like a well-oiled machine. Article Published in Florida Weekly
Week January 19-25, 2023  Does your home make you feel happy? It’s a pretty easy question, right? Does living in disorganization and chaos make you happy? If you are starting to feel like you’re making your life more complicated, trust that feeling. The more you hold on to physically and mentally, the more complicated your life becomes. Have you hit a breaking point? Have you realized that enough is enough and you need to make a change?
Being disorganized and having too much stuff will soon become a problem in the home. When there aren’t any systems to contain everything, it becomes a chaotic, stressful and an overwhelming environment. I’m not just talking about sentimental items here. Too much stuff also means, the unopened piles of mail, the magazines collecting dust, the random things sitting in your closets that you forgot you had and the piles of clothes in the closet that haven’t been worn in years. Then you have items in your home that have meaning and are special to you, but after a while the really important things that mean something to you will mesh with the unimportant things. When you walk into your home, it ultimately all blends in together. How does your home make you feel? Grab a pen and paper and answer the following questions. Jot down any thoughts that come to mind when answering these questions. Clearing the mental clutter and putting things on paper will help you through this process.
You know you have too much, but it’s so overwhelming to tackle the project and you just don’t know where to begin. You also have to be ready to make the commitment to change and you have to be ready to declutter. You can’t get organized without decluttering first. Are you ready to tackle this project? You will definitely hit a breaking point and you’ll wake up one day and say, “I’m ready.” I hope this article will make you think about how much you have and how decluttering and getting organized will make your life easier and allow you to become more efficient and productive. When you are ready, make a plan, break the process down and commit to tackling it.  How many times have you planned to get organized? How many times did you begin the same project and 3 hours later you found you have made no progress and are in a bigger mess than when you started? Most organizing projects fail in the beginning stages because people lose focus and get distracted.
Here are 10 ways to avoid distractions and stay focused Make a plan. Mark your organizing project on your calendar just as you would schedule an appointment. Choose a time of day to tackle this project when you are at your best. You can look forward to this project and give yourself time to get motivated and have a solid plan of how you are going to attack the project. Set a time limit. Block off 3 hours for your organizing project. If it will take you more than 3 hours, schedule a lunch break in between. If you organize more than 3 hours straight, you are setting yourself up for burnout and stress. Disconnect. Before you tackle your project, make a conscious effort to not answer your phone, check your texts, email or social media. Shut down from everything. You will be amazed at how much work you will accomplish. Limit interruptions. If you have children that need to be tended to, plan to have a babysitter watch them during your project time. If you are tackling this project during office hours, make your staff aware that you are not to be interrupted unless it’s an emergency. Focus. Once you start organizing, it is going to be easy to veer off and do other things. Focus on the task at hand. Try not to jump from task to task. Breaking your project down into small tasks will help you stay focused. Don’t leave the area. The biggest mistake people make is leaving the area they are working in. If you leave the room you are working in, you will get distracted, lose focus and your project will take you longer or you may not finish at all. Instead of picking up an item and moving it to another area of the house, keep a bin of items that need to be transferred other rooms. Disburse the items when you are finished. Make quick decisions. Don't spend too much time deciding whether to keep something. If you can't decide, put it aside and move on. Save it until the end. Don’t get stuck. If you are organizing paper, try not to read full articles or get started in reading magazines. Rip out articles that are important to you and move on. Don’t involve too many people. Sometimes it’s better if you tackle this project alone or with another person. If you involve too many people, the chances of you getting distracted and losing focus will be very high. Once people begin in conversations, they stop working get distracted and the projects take twice as long. Reminisce later. It's ok to reminisce with sentimental items, but don't let it zap your time. Decide whether to keep or toss and then move on. After you get organized, re-visit the items and reminisce about them. Without distractions, your project will take you half the time. You will have finished with more energy. You will be motivated and energized to continue and move forward with other projects.  I’m probably one of the most efficient people you’ll ever meet! I’ve taken daily/monthly tasks and streamlined them as much as I can to save myself time and energy. I’ve done this in all the jobs I’ve had throughout the years, also applied it to my home life. There are tools I use that help with the process.
Here are 6 tools I use to stay organized Calendar. I don’t use a digital calendar. I hate them and I won’t use them. Some people love them and that’s ok, but that doesn’t work for me. I have 2 paper calendars. One I use for work and home that I carry with me to work. The other calendar is a weekly planner that sits on my desk in my office. It contains all the paper that I need to tackle throughout the year. There isn’t any paper scattered around the house. All my bills, appt. cards, invites, things I must do are in this planner. It gets rid of the mental clutter. I’ve never missed an appointment, never paid a bill late and never missed an event or redemption of a reward card. Clock. Time management is my specialty and using a clock helps in the process. When I’m writing articles, preparing my newsletter, or doing anything at the computer, I use the clock and give myself a block of time to complete tasks. I keep a clock in the bathroom to keep me on track when getting ready. When working with clients, I’m always keeping track of our time together to make sure the project is running efficiently and we’re being super productive. Systems. I’ve created simple systems in my work and home life. I always tell clients, the simpler the system, the easier it’s going to be to maintain. Creating a space for everything in your home and office is also key. I want to be able to grab something when I need it and go about my day. I don’t want to touch 5 things before I touch the item I need. I don’t want to waste time thinking about where things are located. To-do lists. On Fridays, I look at the week ahead and create a daily to-do list for each day. I look at where I need to be, what errands I have to run, and I even jot down household chores like laundry. Whatever doesn’t get accomplished gets pushed to the next day and I make sure it gets done by the end of the week. Working with a daily to-do list keeps me on task for the week and because I know ahead of time which area of the town I’ll be in; I make sure I get my errands done while I’m there. Live simple. It’s not a tool, but it’s a way of life that helps me run efficiently. When you live simply, you have less to clean up, less to worry about and less to stress about. I like quality over quantity. I like nice things, not too much, but just enough. Eat healthy. Again, not a tool, but when you eat processed junk food, you’ll usually feel sluggish and who feels like being productive when you feel like that? Eating clean, healthy food and drinking lots of water will give you more energy and in turn you’ll be more efficient and productive. All of the above have one thing in common: Structure. If you’re living a chaotic life, and want to get organized, it begins with having structure. You may not like structure, and that’s ok, but are you enjoying the chaos? You may say, this sounds like too much work. I've been living like this since I was a child. It’s been my lifestyle. It’s not difficult; it’s actually really easy and simple. It’s not exhausting, but invigorating! It’s not for everybody. You have to think about how much you want it and if it’s the lifestyle you want to live. If so, you’ll reap the benefits of having more free time, less stress, more structure, and you’ll be more efficient and productive.  If you are starting on your journey to get organized, you may be thinking that you want to get creative and make things look perfect like the pictures you see on Pinterest. If you are just beginning with this organizing process and making attempts you have never made before, be cautious of social media sites with organizing pictures. Why you ask? You will see some crazy, complicated, difficult to follow systems and some that just don't make sense. I look at some of the pictures and think that they will create more work for people.
Organizing is all about making you become more efficient and productive and if it complicates your life rather than making it easier, it's not worth it. Most people who are beginning the organizing process are overwhelmed and stressed. Some will turn to these social media outlets for help but end up more overwhelmed and confused. For example, I came across a picture that had 2 tall pretty bottles. Think: old fashioned soda bottles. These bottles were being used as a bracelet organizer. All the bracelets were stacked on top of each other. The set up looked quite nice and beautiful, BUT that wasn’t my first reaction. I asked myself a few questions when I saw this. How long is it going to take me to grab the bracelet in the middle? I’m all about efficiency and if it’s going to take me a few minutes to pull all the bracelets off to get the one I want, it’s not practical. How many bracelets do I have to touch to grab the one I want? If I have to touch 4 bracelets to get to the one, I want, I just wasted time. I know it’s only a few seconds but add that up throughout your home and guess how much time you could save. What am I going to do with the ones on top once I take them off? Will they get left out to put away later? Most people are in a rush and would take the bracelets off and leave them and not put them back. Now you have items that need to be picked up later, creating more work. Wouldn’t it be easier to develop a system where you could open a drawer or a jewelry organizer and grab the bracelet when you needed it? You wouldn’t have to go through all of the above. Think of how this could affect you if it were a larger organizing project. This is just one example, but it makes you think a little different about this system, right? This is how you should approach all the systems you develop. Again, it's work to create these efficient working systems, but after a while, it will become second nature to develop these systems. Think about areas in your home where you spend the most time. How efficient are you in those rooms? Evaluate how you are functioning, how you grab items and how many items you have to touch before you find what you need. You may need to tweak the systems you have in place to make them work better for you. Streamline how you function in your home. For those that say they never have enough time, these are the ways you create more time. When creating your systems, remember that simpler is better. The more complicated the system, the more likely it is going to fail. Also, it's great to have something pretty, colorful, and nice to look at but think about if it's also going to help you become more efficient and productive. Choose one area this week and streamline!  You can do it now or save it for later. Most of the time if you save it for later, the piles have grown and it’s now going to take you longer to complete. Spend a few minutes tackling it in the moment and save hours on the back end struggling to tackle your task.
Start practicing mini habits and before you know it, they will be incorporated into your everyday life, and you’ll be able to accomplish more than you ever thought possible. It will change your life! Start with very small attainable goals. It will be as easy as picking something up and putting it back where it belongs. Why are you procrastinating? What are you doing now that allows you to be distracted? Are you too busy? 7 Mini Habits You Can Start Now Start placing your keys/phone in the same place. Every time you walk in the door, place your keys in a designated spot. You’ll never run late again because you forgot where you placed your keys. Same goes for your phone. Have a designated spot for your phone and practice placing it in the same spot. You have a home for your toothbrush, right? Why not one for your keys and phone. File receipts. After arriving home from shopping, take receipts out of the car, wallet, or pocketbook. Place them in a monthly pouch, file, or envelope. After you get in the habit of doing this, at the end of the month, match your receipts to your statement, staple, and then file. Your monthly pouch will then be empty and ready for you to fill with the current month’s purchases. Don’t have receipts? Make a habit of keeping track what you’re spending on a monthly basis! Take trash out of your car. Is your car becoming a trash can? Practice taking out your trash every time you get out of the car. You get out and the trash goes with you. Open mail every day. Take a minute everyday to open your mail. It will take you no time at all to categorize it and decide what to keep, shred, throw away, attach to your to-do list or to file. Take something out, put it away. It’s very elementary, but how many of you actually do this? You wear a shirt and instead of hanging it back up or putting it in the laundry, it ends up on the floor and before you know it, you have many small piles. Practice taking things out and putting them back. Keep a running shopping list. If you used the last of the paper towels and know you need more, write it down on a running shopping list. Clear the mental clutter and practice writing things down as you need them. You’ll never have to waste time and struggle again thinking about what you need to purchase. File papers in the moment. You’ve just paid a bill, but you don’t feel like filing it right now. Why? Take a few seconds and file it. Practice tackling tasks like this that will only take a few seconds. Items like this that get pushed to the side are the tasks that end up taking hours later. Are you paperless? Make sure you’re keeping organized folders in your email or on your desktop. Practice the same habit. Break an overwhelming process down into pieces. This is exactly what you are going to do with these mini habits. These tasks don’t seem overwhelming when you break them down into mini habits that are very achievable. Start tackling these mini habits and they will get you one step closer to achieving your organizational goals. Which mini habit will you work on this week?  Are you stressed, overwhelmed, and anxious? Are you disorganized?
Wouldn’t you love to have more free time, less stress, more energy, and more money in your pocket? These are just some of the advantages of being organized. There are more, and you will experience every one of them once you get organized. The first thing you have to do is realize that your disorganization is affecting your quality of life at work and at home. Here are 10 signs it’s time to get organized
Think you can’t get organized? Everybody can get organized - at any time! It just takes a little patience, skills, and hard work. If these areas I mentioned above are dragging you down, think about making a change. What are you waiting for; make that change for the better - Let's do this! Join me for Organizing Basics via Zoom - https://www.kristinmacrae.com/upcoming-events.html  If you are a disorganized person, you probably don’t function with working organized systems. You will find that throughout your home there are probably bags of random items, rooms full of stuff that haven’t been looked at in years and closets that are exploding at the seams. You are probably purchasing duplicate items because you don’t know exactly what you really have. You are also probably wasting precious time searching for things.
If there aren’t any organized systems in place, you are going to find that once you decide to tackle a project, there may be many layers to that project. I think it’s really funny when I’m working with my clients and their husbands will come home and say, “What have you been doing for the past 3 hours? It looks like nothing has been accomplished.” If you are decluttering and organizing and taking the entire room apart, there are going to be layers, and at the end of 3 hours it may look like nothing has been accomplished. When there are layers to a room, your project is probably going to be a little more complicated than you thought. The contents of every bag, every piece of paper, article of clothing and anything else in that room will be touched and gone through piece by piece. Why Do These Layers Form? These layers form because when there aren’t any systems in place; people will throw items into a bag or throw them in a closet or a pile. Usually, if there aren’t systems in place, people don’t want to take the time to create the system so things will just get thrown. Before you know it, you have piles all over the house, in bags, in closets and some really important stuff is getting mixed in with the non-important stuff. As you are peeling back the layers, nothing found is ever categorized so this process will also take a little time, because you are sorting through all types of random items. What’s in the layers? Items that don’t have a designated spot in your home will get tossed in the layers. Anything that you don’t have a system for will get tossed in the layers. You’ll state that you will get to it later, but it gets tossed in a room and you will forget that you threw it in there and it will become part of the layers. There will be important papers, money, memorabilia, and some unimportant items too. How much time have you wasted searching for those items? How much money have you wasted purchasing duplicate items that were found in the layers? |