You need your own reasons for organizing your home

Firstly, you need to know that organizing your home is different for you than it is for someone else.

Some households don't have a lot of clutter and junk but they need to know how to organize what they do have.

On the other hand, some homeowners have piles upon piles of ...things. A big mess, things that really should go but they still think it's just a matter of needing more storage.

Really, storage is the last thing you need. Well, you do need a little, no one wants their clothes living on the floor and their dishes on the bench of course. But the first step needs to be getting rid of clutter, rather than adding more storage just to keep the clutter in..

The thing is, once you start organizing your home, you'll see how fabulous the benefits are:

-It's less stress by having order and discipline.

-It's more space by keeping clutter out for good.

-It's simplifying the way you live at home by creating useful systems that work for you.

-It's more time to do the things you enjoy.

Quite simply, when you finally start to implement the simple changes that lead to organization, it all adds up to give you more room to breath so you can enjoy your family and friends more.

Being organized isn't a matter of being rich or poor, young or old. We don't get taught organization in school and, in fact, we're taught to multi-task and go in too many directions at once.

This was how we're told to live.

These last 2 years, I have gone through my house and life with an eye on keeping only what we need. If something is not being put to use or it's out-of-date... it's getting sold, donated or thrown out.

We create storage to keep only useful items and we're teaching our kids the value of being organized at a very young age (at least, we're trying to!) It makes it easier on them and on us to stay on track about organization.

The funny thing is I don't think I was raised to be particularly organized. We lived in a massive house that my Dad built, with storage everywhere. I had my own room and plenty of storage for all my 'stuff'.

But somewhere along the way, I changed. I like to be on time and being organized makes that possible. I don't like wasting time looking for things, like the other shoe, the camera cord or the kids birth certificates.

Being organized makes it all a lot easier. 

And it gets us out the door on time for school.

It won't necessarily  make you rich, but it will certainly save you money by avoiding duplicate purchases, replacement documents and late fees at the library.

It's not going to make you any younger, but it will certainly give you more time to do things you might think you don't have time to do.

Being organized isn't going to give you a bigger house, but it will clear clutter and open up some space so you'll feel like you have a bigger house. There will be open spaces and less congestion and 'stuff' covering every available surface.

There may seem like there is a lot to getting organized and over the next few days I'm going to share with you even more tips and tricks to getting and staying organized.