ORGANIZING TIPS OF THE MONTH: AUGUST 2011
Warning Signs of Disorganization
Often people are puzzled how their closets, garages, and kitchens got filled with clutter. A bag here, a stack there—it all adds up until rooms become buried. If you pay attention to the warning signs, you can keep clutter under control.
- Unopened packages: If you order online or from TV shopping channels and do not open the goods once they arrive, your purchase is clutter.
- Clothes stored with price tags attached: When you do not remove the price tags from the clothing you buy, you really do not need the item in the first place.
- More than six months’ supply: Excess inventory fills your home with items you are likely to forget you have. There will be other really good sales.
- Rooms lose their function: When stuff piles up in the kitchen so you cannot use the counter to prepare meals or the garage is so full you can’t fit a car in, you have a clutter problem.
- You are embarrassed: Clutter may cause you to avoid having people enter your home.
- Stuff falls on you: No clearer warning signal than that.
- Your family is embarrassed: If your children won’t bring their friends home, it may be because of a clutter-filled house.
- You recognize yourself on TV: Not literally, but if you are watching one of the hoarding shows and the situation looks uncomfortably familiar, you have a problem.
- It wasn’t always like this: If you remember a time when your home felt good to be in and now it is on your nerves, look at the amount of clutter you have.
- You have a long term storage unit: If you have so much stuff it flows over into storage, take stock of what you need. Stuff in storage isn’t needed or it wouldn’t be there in the first place.
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