Organize by Season & Holiday

As Halloween approaches, many families will have to search high and low for their seasonal Halloween decorations. If this is you, take the time to purchase a seasonally colored tote in bright orange and black. Use this color coded tote for storing all autumn, Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations; this makes locating them each year much easier. Organization is about simplicity and having time to live your life, make sure that you make your organizational goals a one-time effort, there is no use having to recreate your efforts every time you turn around.

Organize Once...Then Maintain

I have a wonderful friend that is always "organizing" something in her home. This is a great housekeeping practice to maintain order in you home. However, in my friends case, her house isn't that big and she shouldn't need to re-organize her home so many times a year. The problem is that she gets everything organized and then completely lets he house go and has to start all over again. This is exhausting to say the least and leaves her feeling defeated every time she has to start again.

Learning to organize any aspect of your life or your home should be a one-time process. Organization is a simple process when done effectively the first time- clean, organize and maintain. Any more effort than that means you are keeping too much "stuff", a term made famous by the late George Carlin, and not fully organizing your space the first time. Follow along for the next few weeks as I offer real-life solutions to popular organization problems, I may have one that helps you too.