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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Chiana Dickson

'It completely defeats the purpose' – experts urge you to ditch this performative organizing task so you can more easily tidy your home

Living room, blue painted walls, pale grey rugs, pair of armchairs, sofa and built in bookshelves.

Organizing your space can be a tricky thing to get right, and with an influx of ‘inspiration’ across social media and TV, it is easy to pick up purely performative tasks that do nothing to make your home more organized.

The worst among them? Labeling everything. While it can help in some cases, professional organizers warn that slapping a label on a bin or drawer doesn’t do anything to create a lasting organizing system.

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