Closet & Clutter Organization

By Nathan Shaw, Social Trends Writer

Organize clutter and make those closets sing like a spacious symphony hall with these professional organizer tips.

6 Closet and Clutter Tips

1. Whose Closet and Clutter is this?

I had the pleasure of meeting Rosa Maria of Neo-Tech Publications who gave a talk on personal appearance and home organization.

I always remember how she explained that we can ask ourselves the question 'who lives here' in our own home, and so question ourselves objectively about how we would judge the person that lives at this home.

Try it be looking over your own home and asking yourself about the kind of person you would judge must leave there.

2. Forget about trying to schedule your closet and clutter chores.

This is one of the worst things that people attempt with the very best of intentions.

Trying to time-schedule chores to organize home does not last because of distractions and changes in mood and preference.

Then we beat ourselves up about the mess and that we really should be doing such and such to organize home, and we become even less motivated and things become less tidy than before! Yes?

It actually usually works much better to just wing it than to try scheduling home tidying activities to time, and along with the other Tips you will start enjoying your home more whilst being much more effective too.

3. Do similar activities for tidying closet and clutter in one place at one time, and organize activities by combining them.

Alternatively said: ‘Do your make-up in one place!, and set up your personalized cock-pits'.

I know I need to explain about the cock-pits, but need I explain about the make-up?

Similar activities (like applying all your make-up) should be done at one time and one place, as much as possible.

It's amazing how people get this about something like make-up, or getting dressed, but miss it for things like vacuuming, grocery shopping, kitchen utensil placement, etc.

Do similar activities together in one 'mini-day'. Arrange to do all the weeks shopping (including clothes, food, electrical items, presents, etc) on the same visit to the shops.

Now to explain the cock-pit. Well the visual is that of an airplane cock-pit, with hundreds of lights, buttons, dials, knobs, to give the pilot efficient control and use of all that he might need.

Organize your home in a similar way. Well not quite so intricately as a real airplane, but in general, work out ways to save time, or make best use of time, by having things exactly where you need them.

Do you have an envelope opener next to where you open your mail?

Do you have a clutter free desk draw for those things you often want access to whilst at your desk? Like headset for computer conversation, telephone, current frequently referred to books, stationery case.

Every room should be so arranged: the bathroom should be ready for efficient use, and you could take it that much further by having speakers in there so you can listen to talking CDs to learn something whilst you shave and wash in the morning.

The kitchen too could have speakers. What I've got are my worksheets for vocal exercises and physical exercises that I often do whilst I cook.
Food tastes better when I’ve done some quick exercise.

Personalize your environment, be aware of making optimum use of your time by arranging things just how you like and want them.

Take pen and paper and slowly go around your home with these questions:

What's the worst area I’ve got set up right now?
How much time would it take to get a couple of key areas better organized?
What's the best areas right now?
What would make this area more organized so it’s faster and easier to use?
Is there anything in the way of getting to things quickly that I use regularly?

4. Organize Closet & Clutter Self-Image

The degree of your organization at home is comparable to the degree of your self-image.

In other words, if you see yourself as on top of things and well organized at home, you probably will be.

But which comes first (chicken or egg story I know)?

Well, by becoming emotionally involved with areas that you have got set-up as your personalized cock-pits, you will soon start feeling proud of your environment, and capable to organize home in all areas.

Suddenly you'll find things running much smoother, because you internalize and automate and become a person who sees yourself as well organized at home.

5. 10 Minute Closet & Clutter Review

When your home starts to feel disorganized, do a 10 minute organize home review.

And it’s so simple. Just walk around the home with pen and paper, and jot down any areas that are not organized to your satisfaction.
Please don’t fix anything whilst you do this 10 minute review. Otherwise the review itself will become a daunting task because you’ll have in mind that it will take ages because you have to go ahead and fix everything there and then.

Instead, just take 10 minutes to storm the house and jot down what needs better organizing later.

It's the very best method to access the experiences of abundance, control, and growth for an organized home.

6. Weekend Closet & Clutter Session

In just one hour per week you can tidy up all the finer details at home to give yourself an incredible satisfaction that everything at home is organized.

"Home, for the next hour, it's you and me bucko!"

Dedicate 1 hour, every weekend, to digging in to those painful, boring, nit-picking, areas that you generally don’t consider. It’s like a mini-spring clean once a week where you tidy and organize and straighten out any areas that seem to have got disorganized over the past short while, that you have either not noticed or tried to ignore.

Acting on this final tip, once you have all the others going, will provide a larger-than-life confidence and enjoyment of your home, guaranteed.
But you need to go back to the first tip, and start there now, and be diligent.

It’s your closet and clutter we’re talking about here.