Free cheat sheet · Organizing mistakes

7 Organizing Habits to Drop

I have made every one of these. The bins one cost me real money and a full car boot of returns.

The sheet, in text

  • Buying bins first → Declutter, measure, then buy
  • Tidying room by room → One category at a time, whole home
  • Lidded boxes for daily things → Open bins you can reach into
  • A maybe pile → Decide once, while it is in your hand
  • Filling every shelf → Leave one fifth of each shelf empty
  • Stacking things flat → File upright so you see it all
  • One giant weekend → Ten minutes a day

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