Streamline BEFORE you organize.
Three important concepts to remember:
1) Big isn't necessarily better, it's just big. The space you have is perfectly fine as long as it only holds what matters most to you (what you like, use, need, want, and have room for).
2) Less is always best.
3) Strive for quality over quantity
Three reasons why really bright intelligent people keep things they don't like, use, need, want, or have room for:
1) Sentiment
2) You paid "good money" for it
3) You "might need it someday" (this is true, you will, but that's not the point: there is someone that does need it today. Find the courage to send things to charity).
Eight Streamlining Steps
1. Prepare self and family
2. Gather containers
3. Start in the master bedroom and work in clockwise pattern
4. Evaluate and assign (puts rhyme and reason into spaces)
5. Use keeper questions (to decide what matters most, what your keepers are and how to know what to put in each container)
6. Group and store like items together
7. Give every family member a memory box
8. Enjoy the empty space (and make it part of your homemaking standard
Conclusion: The familiar feelings of being overbooked, overworked, and overwhelmed are eliminated as you eliminate clutter and overload from your home and workplace. Streamlining makes the best use of the space you have and gives you an advantage over whatever your day has to offer.
Information taken from
It's Here...Somewhere, Spring Creek Books, 2008).
