How To ACTUALLY Get Started Organizing (From A Pro)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2022
- Have you ever wondered how to ACTUALLY get started in organizing your home? Well, I've been helping people organize their homes for a decade now and I'm happy to share with you what I've learned about what it takes to actually get started organizing your home. I know it can be overwhelming to look at a space and tackle it but here are some steps you can take to make it manageable.
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I don’t have a problem getting started, I have a problem with finishing and maintaining lol
ME TOO!!!!
Great tips
Anything that comes into your home mail, , packages and stuff you bring in with you must be processed immediately….groceries, clothes everything.
A shredder is essential
I found you through Pat and I have to say I've practically watched everyone of your videos on both channels. I have broken/destroyed my leg so I'm stuck in a lot of the day. Thankyou for so much amazing content and for being so lovely! We need more Kays in the world. 💛
Pat?
My struggle spots are the shed and the basement. My husband has been in heaven for 8.5 years and I still need to deal with all the dead or duplicate tools, supplies for “someday” DIY and things I will never use - like his collection of fishing rods. It doesn’t help that my time is more limited now because I work full time and now have to do the chores we used to share by myself. I just need to carve out the time and prioritize it. One of these days.
You may want a fishing buddy to look at the rods. Some may be collectible.
Going paperless really worked for me. And than I created digital folders to help keep me organize.
It’s my bedroom and closet for me. Unopened mail and laundry that needs to be put away is taking over my bedroom. And my closet is overflowing with clothes that don’t fit or that I probably won’t wear again but I can’t seem to part with. I appreciate the tips.
I am redoing my home office, which means a LOT of decluttering! I have shredded a whole garbage bag’s worth of documents, sold my filing cabinet and old desk on marketplace, and have a donation box going. I have professional organizers coming next month, but I wanted to get a head start and tackle papers and other small items. It’s definitely hard work, but it’s rewarding too!
I've made an addendum for how I am disposing of items which won't stay: keep it super simple. Stuff either comes with me to work (I work with grad students, they will take those free things), goes to Goodwill, will go to JunkLuggers in the spring, or go in the bins. And even making up one bag/box for one of these places give me that dopamine win sensation.
All I have to do is open the door to look at the garage and I am filled with a sense of overwhelm and dread. I like your tip about getting rid of the donation pile first!
Before beginning a decluttering project, especially a big one, I find it helps to do homework first. Research local charity places that accept donations (their hours, locations, guidelines for what they accept); contact the local DPW for guidelines on what can be trashed or recycled; call a junk hauler for their rates and schedules, etc. Some people I've observed hang onto stuff they think they can sell, or that they want to be sure is responsibly disposed of, or that they think they can give to charity, but without researching in advance, the stuff just gets put in bags or boxes and left in the home or car. I have friends whose living room has looked like a storage pod for a year, full of boxes they keep meaning to bring to a charity place but never quite get around to it. Another friend has two cars that nobody can ride in except the driver, because all the passenger space is loaded with stuff. Finally, decluttering can be a dirty business, so be sure to stock up on cleaning supplies beforehand: gloves, sponges, vacuum cleaner bags/ filters, dust cloths, etc. And have plenty of garbage bags/ cardboard boxes on hand... you'll need more than you think.
Decision fatique is my downfall. If something is useful and i like or think i need it but have nowhere to put it is exhausting agony for me.
My area that needs decluttering ASAP is my bedroom. I'm scheduled for hip replacement surgery in 12 days so i'm under the gun to get my room organized, tidy, functional, safe. However, i can barely walk, can't lift anything and have run out of money to pay helpers. I need a miracle!
Oh ain't life grand !! 😁
If you have a rolling desk chair, it may help you get around the room well enough so you can deal with the boxes or items. Good luck!
As Mel Robbins always says, "Motivation is garbage!" Thanks for making a video on this topic with helpful tips and steps that I can share with people who are struggling to start.
Thanks for telling me to get off my butt and just do it! I went and got rid of all the recyclables in the laundry room and put the donation bags of clothes in the car. Your right it looks much better. I can actually visualize homes for things now. I have been working in the laundry room for 2 weeks 15 to 20 minutes at a time. It's in the basement so there was a lot of non-laundry stuff in that area.
Firstly, your outfit is so cute! Secondly, this is the video I need!
Thanks for keeping it real. Forget motivation, just do it, that’s how I’m feeling about this laundry I have to fold today…. 😅
at this moment i'm doing a massive reorganizing and decluttering in my house! my trouble areas are the garage and the backyard shed where everything goes to die lol. another massive problem is my mother's hoarder tendencies but, i'm slowly pushing her in the right direction
My issue is procrastinating on opening mail, I have a cute box and I hide, I mean, put it in, out of sight out of mind…… Bad… bad… bad. I’ve started to set a timer for 15 minutes, write it on my planner, and just do it. I’ve come a long way, but not yet perfect. Thank you for mentioning this. I thought I was the only one!
Love the table in the back 😍 and the great advice😉👊🏾
My 2 places to organize the kitchen counter and all the perfumes/body care items in bathroom, I don't want to throw them away, they are good products
My office/craft room are my nemesi👿 when it comes to organizing! I think it’s because I have a different organizing style in this room than the rest of my house. It also is my creative outlet space…so it there is always 2 or 3 unfinished projects sitting around! I know I just need to rip the bandage but it’s tough😬
I'm late commenting but all excellent advice! All too often we think we have to wait for motivation to get things done but we have to start first, motivation of the end results keeps us going. 🙂
My kitchen will always be the struggle. I just haven't figured out how to manage appliance storage, cleaning supply storage and food storage in one small space. There's plans to upgrade the kitchen cart to something bigger, but one thing at a time. We finally decluttered an old broken dinette set last weekend after many years of not really using it.
Hi! I have my craft room that is hard to walk into. Anything I don’t want touch goes in there plus everything from a closet that is being painted is in there. I just want to enjoy my craft room.
Hanging trouble getting started organizing my fishing stuff and our closets containing recreational stuff (bikes, fitness, etc). Good video - thanks
My basement and front living room are my catch all rooms! We’re mainly in our own rooms or kitchen! Most things are in boxes or bags! With my work hours getting rid of the donation bags is difficult! I always seem to start somewhere else in the house! The paper issue I have solved that, but a paper shredder is key! It’s right where I drop everything keys, bag, coats! Thank you Kay! You combined with Cas, dawn, Dana, Kathryn and Melissa have helped me get to where I’m at now! Just need to pass this energy to the kids!
Check if any of the thrift stores have pick up services in your area. Salvation Army and VVA both do it where I live. Ultra convenient for busy people!
There have been things I’ve been wanting to do to the house but waited because the kids were young and it was too much trouble. Now I have 1 in college, 1 senior in high school, and 1 8th grader. Two kids out of the house (sort of) next year and I feel like it’s time to do some of these things. I like your common sense approach.
I love your outfit here! 😍
Every part of my house and yard. I wait until I'm motivated and I do not succeed very well. When I tell myself just do it and do not think. Successful.
BOOM 💥
I'm totally losing it over my craftroom/office and my bedroom. 😬 My biggest problem is that my stuff don't actually have a designated place to go, and trying to figure that out has caused me to buy every bin known to man. I have stopped & not allowed myself to buy anymore. I've now required myself to shop my home to get things done. I have to start somewhere. 🤷🏾♀️
Just trying to get my active studio looking quieter - it already functions well, but looks messy. I am living in my studio! But, working on it, with the help and inspiration of you!
Garbage out. Best tips. “Allow yourself a journey.”. Not opening mail can lose you money or sanity. Trouble never disappears if we don’t look at it.
Thanks so much for the awesome tips 💜
Trouble area is a closet my husband and I store tools in - he won’t declutter as much as I would but it’s also disorganized. It’s in an apartment too! Ugh
My trouble area are my craft supplies! Esp since I keep a lot of scraps/ weird bits to recycle and reuse
Thank you for your video! My home office desk is my nemesis. I am going to try to set a timer for an hour this weekend to tackle at least some of it. I think my issue is finding a filing system that woks for me. Have you done a video on filing systems?
My garage. It's been over a year since we organized it (I should say cleaned it/not organized it) My husband is a hoarder and I have just learned to pick my battles. I want to bring everything we don't use to Goodwill or have a garage sale, but he says, we can use it or he doesn't want to throw it away because it was his parents (we bought their house)...
Thanks for the wonderful tips! I need to put some action into decluttering unwanted items.
Got your name from Pat Sloan too. I was looking yesterday for how to get motivated videos. Thank you so much for saying I’m not going to get motivated! It actually helped and I’m ready to just jump in and do it. Closet and sewing room first.
Dealing with mail right away-for me that also means immediately emailing whatever company that has sent me an unwanted mailer/coupon/sales catalog/ donation plea; to remove me from their mailing list. It cuts down on future paper clutter. It takes 5 minutes to find their email, and I just have a very simple email template I use.
I am working on my home office. Thank you for the suggestions.
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I need help with my closet. It has space but so badly organised and I never know where to begin. It feels like it should have enough room available, but because I have my clothes also stored in air vac bags under my bed. So my winter clothes live in those bags during spring and summer and then I switch them over, with my autumn and winter clothes going into the wardrobe closet when they’re needed and spring/summer are stored in the bags under the bed. I wish I could finally get everything in there sorted out and arranged better for easier access to everything. I’m promising myself that come week annual leave from work I’m going to try to do it! Wish me luck!
Help! I have a small home and way too much stuff!😳 While I'm working on tossing things, where do I put things I want to keep but do not have a home? Even big things like my vacuum cleaner and my sewing machine, they don't have homes and I don't have closets. Help! Thank you!!! 😁
Please talk about that peacock glass top table in the background How is it blanced It is beautiful.
Yes, yes, heard about from Pat Sloan.....so glad. u r so inspiring and bring me joy! AND I bought a plant to add to my little collection of spider plants and aloe vera. Have cleared up several drawers...yeah!!! you are Terrific....and Clover!
I consolidated I framed photos during a move into one box. It is one big box and now I need to go through it. My goal is to pull it out and take 15 minutes a week between now and Jan 1 to toss or save the photos. 🤞🏻
my room is where i dont wanna do, i'll clean the rest of the apartment but my craft/gaming room i dont wanna deal with since i'm the only one that has to deal with it but i gotta start my business to make money from my crafts fr
My closet! Have been working on it for months! 😢
I have good closet space, but should I keep only the season I'm in in the closet
One of my problems is coupons that I think (but probably won’t) use. Can”t figure out a good way to organize them, keep them, use them.
There are so few coupons in the newspaper. It’s sad imo. It seems like there has been a switch to digital coupons. ☠️
I give the ones I won't use to the public library, they have a coupon box (before the pandemic).
Great video Kay! I need clothes declutter help. I wfh but love nice clothes. I live in south Florida where it’s always 80-100 but have tons of jeans and heavier clothes just in case.. We move around every few years but love Florida. Ugh. Lots of “in cases” and stuff I do love but don’t wear. I live in a condo so share a closet with hubs. Smh. Sidenote- Aww your decluttering video from 2 yrs ago when you worked out of your “cloffice” 😉👏🏻👍🏼
I feel like I'm tidy and organized for the most part except my home office (I'm meticulous in the office for work even). I think it's truly the paper/personal info management that is the worst.
My garage is a big nightmare. And for how long I'm too embarrassed to say. I've had one whole weekend stab at it maybe a year ago. It's about half done.
The area I'm having trouble even starting is the room that used to be our computer room and is now the "craft room" except we've never used it and it isn't set up in a way we could use it if we wanted to. My first focus is my desk because I use that daily and it bothers me daily. But at some point I will start tackling the craft room. but there are other things that bother me more (and I see and use constantly) the craft room is behind a closed door I rarely look at
I wonder if a “craft” room is often an excuse for a junk room. In order for it to be useful, a lot of organizing plans must be made and storage items purchased. Else it is a junk room!!
@@lindatwyman8739 there are definitely storage items needed, and it truly is meant to be used, but the setting up of the desks elsewhere was the main focus
@@M-Joy I was speaking in a general way and not necessarily to your situation. I just know my daughter has spent much time and money on planning and arranging her craft / office. It has been very difficult and requires a lot of thought to keep it clean. Just thinking out loud.
@@lindatwyman8739 I get that, especially if you're a crafter of multiple types, organization is needed and cleaning regularly needs to occur
I have two rooms, my bedroom and dining room. Both a total mess.
Usually by the time we feel a real drive to declutter and organize, the job has gotten daunting and we panic. So we start off with HUGE ambitions to get a lot done. And inside, even subconsciously, we feel intimidated by the enormity of teh task in front of us.
You HAVE TO narrow your perspective. It WON'T get cleared up in a single day, not a single weekend, likely not even a single week. It took a long time to get to this stage, so likely will take a while to whittle down. And meanwhile, it becomes really hard to argue yourself into starting. You want to put it off, and it's hard to keep at it. Likely you get bogged down looking through old books or journals or photos. You fixate on some minute item and bog down. Because you set your sights too high.
I've become a fan of what I call 'Puttering-cleaning'. I don't start by looking at the entire daunting job ahead of me, Instead, I set the scale extremely small, usually promising myself only a square foot of cleaning/organizing or less. I 'putter' at the edge of what needs doing. My inner procrastination does not engage if all I'm doing is putter a short time at the edge. Just a little bit and back to other stuff; I can always come back and putter a little more tomorrow.
But a funny thing happens: The bit of puttering tends to grow. I get into it. And next thing I know, I've spent a half hour or hour clearing a space and cleaning an area, and that inner resistance never kicked in. And I may 'putter' like that another couple times before the day is over. And it goes on from there.
The real secret is scaling down your goals and just doing as much as you feel like doing. If your goal is small enough, you'll easily take on the work and you'll put in more time than you intended. You have to game yourself.
This is what works for me.
Don't define your goal as a room or an expansive task like 'all the laundry' or 'all the dishes'. Just narrow the work to something quite easy that allows you to push back the perimeter. Just putter a bit. It will pull you into doing more than you thought.
I need to organize my living room, lots of cosplay costumes that I do wear when I can....they just need a better place to chill
My office plagues me...
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Mail is the worst for me
Garage. Too much stuff
my room is where i dont wanna do, i'll clean the rest of the apartment but my craft/gaming room i dont wanna deal with since i'm the only one that has to deal with it but i gotta start my business to make money from my crafts fr