Archives for the 'Clutter 101' Category
Clutter 101: Track Your De-Cluttering Activity [Organize IT]
Take a quick look around an average room and there are probably loads of areas that need to be regularly cleaned, and plenty of drawers, boxes and shelves that need de-cluttering. Apply all that to an entire apartment or house and that’s a lot of work and a lot of next actions to get through. [...]
Clutter 101: The Last Minute De-Clutter [Organize IT]
Welcome to the tenth part of my Clutter 101 series! Imagine that you have friends or family who have unexpectedly decided to visit you (as they always seem to do…), yet you have piles of paper on the table, laundry waiting to be washed in baskets and, and overflowing kitchen drawers. How do you go [...]
Clutter 101: The Landing Strip [Organize IT]
You come home from work or a long day out shopping. Your hands and pockets are full of coins, keys, paperwork and shopping bags. Where do you put them? If you don’t have a landing strip, then you probably leave them at the first bit of space you come across, whether it be the corner [...]
Clutter 101: Organizing Your Kitchen [Organize IT]
Welcome to the third part of my series of posts taking the Clutter 101 principles of organizing and de-cluttering your home and applying them to individual rooms in your home. In this post I will cover the kitchen. As there is typically so much activity here, as well as the fact it needs to be [...]
Clutter 101: Organizing Your Bathroom [Organize IT]
Welcome to another post in my Clutter 101 series, and the second post focusing on dealing with individual rooms around the house. In this post I will focus on the bathroom. While most of the focus on this room typically revolves around keeping it clean and sparkling it is still important to look at all [...]
Clutter 101: Organize Your Bedroom [Organize IT]
This is the first in a number of posts where I will take all the learnings from previous Clutter 101 posts regarding de-cluttering and organizing and apply them to specific rooms in your home. In this post I will focus on the bedroom. With so much clothing and personal belongings often stored here it can [...]
Clutter 101: The Holiday Suitcase [Organize IT]
After I came back from holiday I had the undesirable task of unpacking everything, washing all the clothes and putting stuff away (in fact I’m still doing it now). Normally I have to keep the suitcases under the bed. As you all probably know suitcases are pretty hefty things to store, and in my case, [...]