The term 'getting organized' means different things to different people. Over the last 5 years of working with clients in their homes and online, I have distilled 'getting organized' into 3 distinct phases or steps.
Each step has its own goals and strategies for success. In this series, I will be describing each step from beginning to end and giving you actionable strategies to 'get organized.'
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These steps are progressive and need to be done in order in each area you want to tackle in your home and in your life. In the podcast, I will be sharing what it looks like to do each step in the following areas: your primary closet, your kitchen, your schedule, and your daily actionable papers.
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I used to see decluttering and organizing as one step because I usually do them simultaneously. However, each does have its own unique focus and objective. Decluttering always comes first.
Once you decide what area you are going to 'organize,' the first step is to declutter.
Decluttering means to remove what you do not want or need in a space.
Some obvious things to declutter are: food, trash, or broken objects.
Then it gets harder. One man's trash is another man's treasure, right? So how do you decide what should go and what should stay? The key here is to FOCUS on what can GO, not how to organize what you want to keep.
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- How overwhelmed are you?
- How long have you felt unorganized?
- How much time do you have?
The more overwhelmed you are and the longer you have felt unorganized, the more you need to declutter. We just save TOO much! The idea of living with less is weird.
It feels odd and hard to give away perfectly good items you paid for. But the freedom of living with less is just that. freedom.
How much less?
In my experience, you can declutter 20-50% at one time. We are not going for perfect here.
Progress over perfection.
To be MOST effective, move items to be sorted to a NEW location. You will get rid of more when your items are not in their usual homes.
5 Steps to Decluttering
- Eliminate all trash, food, and broken items.
- Sell or consign anything of value you want to sell.
- Bag up any donateable items and deliver them to the donation center {including consignment items they wouldn't take}.
- Collect everything that goes in another room and locate it in that room.
- Make a list of any spaces that need organizers or items that need to be replaced.
Decluttering feels good, but not finished. 2017 bmw r1200rt service manual. Step 2 of organizing needs to follow quickly to bring order into your newly emptied space.
Listen to the podcast to hear about how I declutter the primary closet, kitchen, schedules, and daily actionable papers, and 2 times when I focus on decluttering the WHOLE house before I start any organizing. Privatus 6 0 3.
Links to things mentioned in the podcast:
Join the 100 Day Home Organization Challenge, or try a week FREE.
You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff—you can get rid of clutter for good!
While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, real women with real families who are constantly growing and changing simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.
In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mind-sets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. Then, in her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out—for good!
Declutter 15 Minutes A Day
But more than simply offering strategies, Dana dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. She helps identify procrasticlutter—the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent—as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter.
Declutter 15 Minutes A Week
- How overwhelmed are you?
- How long have you felt unorganized?
- How much time do you have?
The more overwhelmed you are and the longer you have felt unorganized, the more you need to declutter. We just save TOO much! The idea of living with less is weird.
It feels odd and hard to give away perfectly good items you paid for. But the freedom of living with less is just that. freedom.
How much less?
In my experience, you can declutter 20-50% at one time. We are not going for perfect here.
Progress over perfection.
To be MOST effective, move items to be sorted to a NEW location. You will get rid of more when your items are not in their usual homes.
5 Steps to Decluttering
- Eliminate all trash, food, and broken items.
- Sell or consign anything of value you want to sell.
- Bag up any donateable items and deliver them to the donation center {including consignment items they wouldn't take}.
- Collect everything that goes in another room and locate it in that room.
- Make a list of any spaces that need organizers or items that need to be replaced.
Decluttering feels good, but not finished. 2017 bmw r1200rt service manual. Step 2 of organizing needs to follow quickly to bring order into your newly emptied space.
Listen to the podcast to hear about how I declutter the primary closet, kitchen, schedules, and daily actionable papers, and 2 times when I focus on decluttering the WHOLE house before I start any organizing. Privatus 6 0 3.
Links to things mentioned in the podcast:
Join the 100 Day Home Organization Challenge, or try a week FREE.
You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff—you can get rid of clutter for good!
While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, real women with real families who are constantly growing and changing simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.
In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mind-sets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. Then, in her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out—for good!
Declutter 15 Minutes A Day
But more than simply offering strategies, Dana dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. She helps identify procrasticlutter—the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent—as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter.
Declutter 15 Minutes A Week
Sections of the book include
- Why You Need This Book (You Know Why)
- Your Unique Home
- Decluttering in the Midst of Real Life
- Change Your Mind, Change Your Home
- Breaking Through Your Decluttering Delusions
- Working It Out Room by Room
- Helping Others Declutter
- Real Life Goes On (and On)
As long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. The good news is that decluttering can get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours, less emotional bandwidth, and little to no sweat to keep going.
- Sexual Content - 0/50/5
- Violence - 0/50/5
- Language - 0/50/5
- Drugs and Alcohol - 0/50/5
Summary
Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana White is not your typical decluttering book. Several of her concepts have caught my attention and I am very glad I read it.
Two of my favorite points from the book that hit home for me.
1 – this is not about organizing. It is about de-cluttering
2 – ask the question where would you LOOK for it. Not where should it belong.
She has a very tactical and practical approach to tackling the clutter. You can tell she is talking from experience. And her examples are like she is looking into your bedroom, or closet or kitchen.
I also have the need to be prepared for anything. Which leads to The decluttering regret –we will survive it. It is not the end of the world and it is much better than having a house so full you cannot find anything.
She recommends decluttering the most visible spaces first so that you can see progress and you can have people in your home.
She introduces the container concept which to me was new to decluttering. I was organizing and buying new organizers. For examples if scarves have a drawer. You fill it with your favorite scarves and the ones that don't fit, get donated.
She strongly recommends donating versus thinking we will eventually sell it. Oh my… did I mention I think she is in my house and my head.
I definitely would recommend this book. Good, practical advice from someone who has been there and encourages you. She knows the reasons you have convinced yourself to keep it because she has been there.
