So you want to get organized, but where do you start? There are a few easy first steps.
1. Take out all the items on the surface that don't belong there (dishes in the bedroom, clothes in the living room or garage etc)
2. Start 4 piles: Garbage, Donate, Recycle, and Keep.
3. Begin by grabbing anything you see and putting it in those piles. You may need to do the next step if you notice your keep pile is much bigger than the other three piles.
4. Put like items with like items. Gather all the bottles of lotion, all the books, all the glasses etc. and put into individual piles. Ask yourself, do you really need 10 bottles of lotion? No. toss the old ones, donate the unused and a keep a couple. You really only need 2 or 3. A current bottle, a backup for when the current bottle runs out, and a travel bottle. That is it!
Now you are ready to organize! Have fun!
Jen
