WHY PLASTIC BINS AREN’T YOUR BEST ORGANIZING TOOL.

Ahhh, the bins.  Piles and piles of bins. Plastic, wicker, bamboo — but the ones that the “big” organizers love are those acrylic bins.  Clear bins of wonder so you can see everything you have, and how it’s in just the right spot!

YOUR BEST TOOL IN ORGANIZING

The sad news, my friends, is that I swear those fun organizing shows almost always skip over this part.  You want to know why — it’s super boring.  It’s decision, after decision, after decision.  There is absolutely nothing glamorous about this part, but like most real hard working tools in your tool belt, you can get past the prickly exterior and use it for good!

YOUR BEST TOOL IN ORGANIZING

You guessed it, your best organizational tool is decluttering.

THREE TIPS IN DECLUTTERING

1. Take everything out — if you remove everything from the area, not only will be able to dust it out, but you’re already halfway there to things that don’t belong there finding a new home!

2. Zone it — I use zones to really help my decluttering.  I like to make each spot contain just what needs to be there.  That eliminates the batteries and shoelaces that somehow find their home several places around my house.  They have their own homes.  They need to live there.

 3. Remember it’s your BEST tool!  When you think a system isn’t working 90% of the time you aren’t doing decluttering hard enough.  You have too much there.  Be honest, and remove more.

– See if a friend can use it – Save it for a garage sale (but have a date set for the garage sale and stick to it) – Sell it online (within the week) – Throw it away – Send it to Goodwill – Recycle it

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR DECLUTTERED ITEMS

Decision Fatigue Making choice after choice after choice is HARD.  Our brains don’t like that. They much prefer the auto-pilot choice of just shoving it back into the spot.

WHY IT’S HARD TO DECLUTTER

Confronting bad decisions Sometimes you have to realize that there were things you bought that were a poor choice, and that doesn’t feel good.

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