We’re all leading busy lives and forever battling the race against time while trying to achieve the most. Realistically, if you work during the week, it’s unlikely to find yourself organizing until the weekend, but the weekend is valuable being your only spare time, so we inevitably result in putting things like organizing off until we reach a certain point where something has to be done about it.
‘Cleaning is not organizing. Most people know how to clean the dishes but do not know how to organize them,’ says Ben Soreff, professional organizer at House to Home Organizing. Decluttering and organizing is more systematic than just cleaning. There is a need to be thorough and for this, you need time. Dedicating the time to tackle different rooms one by one is a good place to begin, and once a room is complete, it’s a space you can relax in fully. ‘In a sense, every room is the same, since the process is always the same. In each room, we have items that, once reviewed, will only be in certain categories – Toss, donate, keepsakes, elsewhere in the house, kept in the room, or given to a specific person or group. Do not ask, do I need this? No one needs anything. Instead, ask Why am I keeping it? How expensive is it? How hard is it to get again? After the review, it is not hypothetical, you know the quantity and can select the correct storage solutions,’ encourages Ben.
