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Really Useful Organization Tips

Have you seen the books by Samantha Ettus? I LOVE them – The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do and The Experts’ Guide to Life at Home. In 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do, Ettus – in 100 brief how-to essays by 100 of the world’s leading experts – offers some of the world’s most valuable advice from the best of the best. One of my most favorite of her quick-hitting how-to’s (that's really helped me the most) is ORGANIZE by Julie Morgenstern…

ORGANIZE
By Julie Morgenstern
From The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do by Samantha Ettus

Julie Morgenstern is founder and owner of the professional organizing firm Julie Morgenstern’s Task Masters . She is the author of three books, including Organizing from the Inside Out, and is a columnist with O: The Oprah Magazine.

CREATING A CLUTTER-FREE S.P.A.C.E.
Morgenstern suggest that we follow her S.P.A.C.E. formula to make the task of organizing manageable and easy. She suggests that we complete these steps in order - one room at a time. According to Morgenstern, you...

SORT

PURGE

ASSIGN A HOME

CONTAINERIZE AND LABEL

EQUALIZE This means that you need to come up with a simple maintenance program for your newly organized room/space that can keep pace (equalize) with your life and possessions.

This is just a summary of ONE of the numerous outstanding how-to’s in this book. All of Ettus' books are DEFINITELY ones to buy and give as gifts!!!

I have come up with my own system for organizing (if I could organize full-time, I would...I LOVE it!)

Jenny's Rules When Organizing:

First You Clear - Then You Sort - Finally You Categorize

~ Do the L.U.N.B. Test ~
Ask yourself...Do I:
1. Love it? (Everything must have a meaning to you)
2. Use it? (If so, how often? If it's one time every two years - no good.)
3. Need it?
4. Buy it again?

Be prosperous and expect good things!
Jenny