What to do if your spouse or roommate doesn’t keep the home organized
Slap them.
No! Of course not, that would be very counterintuitive.
Don’t physically assault anyone, that will just make matters worse.
Organizing
Taking a second look at your attachment to things
The value of a dollar.
This is what you hear parents always trying to teach their kids about.
However.
5 steps to organizing your pantry
1. Decide to organize your pantry
The first step, as with anything else in life, is to just make the decision that you’re going to start organizing. Really commit though and set a specific date and time that you’re going to do it on.
Where to start with home organizing?
Start by making a mess.
That’s right, the key to starting is making a mess. I always tell my clients it’s going to get worse before it gets better, just one thing at a time.
The difficulty with implementing new systems
Your past life has wired you to not succeed at these new systems. It’s just a battle. There’s little getting around it. Your habits and subconscious behaviors keep you in line with what you’re used to doing, that’s why you keep doing it, it’s the path of least resistance.
Why organizing feels so overwhelming
Lean back, maybe stare at the ceiling, and just take a moment to think about what it would be like to shuck 10,000 corn husks. What a daunting task, right? It looks and feels almost impossible, there’s no way you could ever do it, or is there?
Let’s talk about mental health; How home organization can help with depression
Prefaces like this kind of suck, and I shouldn’t do it, but I’m ignoring my own advice and I’m going to do it anyway. Thus, writing about my depression is actually pretty easy, posting it is the hard bit.
To color code or to label, ready, fight!
In the left corner stands color coding, great for finding things quickly, looking quite immaculate, and helping items get back to where you found them.
Just do one thing, DAMN IT!
That son of a bitch is hiding just around the corner, whispering insults and waiting for you to turn the corner so it can stick out its leg and trip you.
Overwhelm.
Is cooking a nightmare? You might need less utensil in your drawers
Having my tools accessible and easy to find is so essential to me when I make products. If they weren’t easy to access, I’d probably put off starting until the very last minute.