What Cluttered Area in Your House Causes the Most Frustration?

• Is it your cluttered kitchen or bathroom cabinets?

• Could it be your desk with piles of papers?

• Maybe your family room is not being used for it's fullest potential because clutter is taking up a lot of space.

• Can you relax in your bedroom area, or do you have disorganization with clothes and books lying around?

• Do you have unfolded clothes in laundry baskets sitting in your family room on the couch?

• Is it taking you too long to cook and prepare family meals because you can't find what you need inside of your disorganized, cluttered kitchen cabinets?

• Do you get frustrated just thinking about cleaning and maintaining the bathroom every week because you haven't figured out the appropriate storage for that area?

• Do you dislike walking into your basement because you have been storing so much of what you have accumulated throughout the years in boxes downstairs?

• Can you park your cars in your garage, or do you use that area to store extra boxes of items that you need to sort through?

• Does it look nice around the entrance of your front or back door, or do you have shoes, mail, magazines, or pet supplies lying around?

I think you probably get the picture. I believe that you will begin to easily see a huge positive difference in even one small area in your home that you declutter. Hopefully, this will get you motivated to continue with your future home organizational plans!

After reading many of my examples, you any decide to start in the one area of your home that causes you the most frustration.

You will want to begin by planning your organizing or decluttering project.

Plan an appropriate amount of time for your individual projects. Four hours may be a great amount of time, but even if you have an hour or 30 minutes, you may accomplish a decent amount of work. 

After you become accustomed to decluttering and organizing your house, you may easily find that even 15 minutes a day may be helpful if you are busy.

Get your supplies ready, such as: garbage bags, boxes for sorting, labels, etc. You will want to wait until you declutter to buy specific storage containers that you will need to use on a long-term basis.

It is helpful to decide in advance what you want to do with any items that you definitely decide to get rid of for sure. Some examples: local charity, local consignment store, junk removal service, or a future yard sale. 

It is helpful to have items removed quickly after your organizing project is completed. It is always a good idea to completely finish one project before you begin another.

Remember to stick with one area that you are working on and do not jump into other rooms at the same time. Focus on one project at time to increase your efficiency.

Some people enjoy working with an accountable friend and they find that method to be motivating.

Others may have a need or desire to hire a Professional Organizer to help them develop specific organizing systems and storage solutions.