5 Reasons Why Your Room is Disorganized | Clutter Video Tip

http://www.ClutterDiet.com Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. The best solutions come after your problem has been diagnosed. I could be simply that your plans for your space were too grandiose. So, if you have things to which you want to say adios- watch today’s video. Lorie Marrero is sharing tips for the types of rooms she sees the most. Following these strategies will make organizing your homeless stressful and more productive. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.

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Hi I’m Lorie Marrero, creator of the Clutter Diet book and online program, today we’re talking about 5 reasons why your room is disorganized.

We’re diagnosing your space. As you approach your organizing project, don’t just jump in and think “I’m going to clean it up.” Stop and think about what’s really going on. Why did it get this way in the first place, and how can I keep it from getting that way again? Here are some diagnoses that can help as you think about this.

The 1st one is “boneless spaces.” Just like your body has to have a skeleton to hold it up, your room has to have a skeleton- an infrastructure. This can be shelving, cabinetry, furniture pieces, even racks hanging from the ceiling. What you want to do to cure a boneless place, like an empty garage, is go vertical. Use the walls as much as you can and clear all the flat surfaces. Don’t stack stuff all around the edges of the walls. That stuff just stacks up and migrates into the middle of the garage. Use the wall space to its fullest potential. Make sure you have great storage in the furniture pieces you chose.

“Overweight spaces” is my next diagnosis. This is too much stuff in the available space. I see this in closets all the time. No matter how great your closet system is, how much you’ve maximized the storage, how thin your hangers are, at some point you’re going to have to make decisions about that stuff and get some of it out. Take out whole categories, like seasonal clothing, but you’ve got to get real about that if you have an overweight space.

The next category is a “clutter cemetery.” You may have a guest room, garage or basement where things go to die. You haven’t made a decision about this stuff, you push it out of one room into another, or out by the back door, and it finally ended up in the garage. Now you’ve got a whole cemetery full of stuff that’s just dead in the water. Make your final decisions about these things. Have a disposal plan. You may want to donate to Goodwill or sell some things. You may want to have a dumpster. How are you going to complete the cycle and push that stuff out of your home and your life?

The next one is called a “stressed out space.” There are too many functions going on in this room. People have a spare bedroom or a loft area and they think, “Oh, it’s going to be my scrap-booking, craft, home office, exercise room,” or, “my meditation space, home theater, play room.” There’s so much going on in there, and that’s why it’s not working and feels cluttered. Use room dividers and screens if you can section off the space and make that work better, but mostly you just need to stop for a second and evaluate what the functions are that are happening in here. Is it realistic? You may want to relocate some functions. Maybe you don’t need a treadmill and you can join a gym and get that out of your house.
The last type of room diagnosis is what I call “shared custody,” or “neglected spaces.” This is a shared space. An office kitchen where a lot of coworkers are sharing the space, or a pantry or kitchen at home, or a common laundry room. What happens is there’s a lack of ownership of the space. Somebody organized it once and then the system just devolved from there. Everybody’s coming in, putting things wherever they feel like it. A good solution is for someone to have ownership of the space and regularly reorganize it, and for everyone involved to have an orientation about the space. Use labeling and signs and explain why you created this system so that they might have empathy for all the hard work you did to organize it.

If you need more help, you can get unstuck and look at those diagnoses with our expert team at clutterdiet.com. Upload your photos and let us know what’s going on, we can get you unstuck and move forward in your project.

See you next time. May you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.

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