Spring has come early this year, and with it, the desire to organize!
I have 4 young children and work from a home office with 2 businesses. My life feels far from organized.
I confess that I dream of an organized home. I page through catalogs that promise to manage my house. I look through websites that offer complete systems to create order. I go to stores and seek out products that will make my life easier, simpler. I think up ways that should keep my family and business on track.
Then, I have days when I want to pitch everything I own and just start over.
Before and After:
My suggestion to help you get organized: find a friend to get organized with! It would be great if that friend wanted to come over and clean your house for you, but that probably won’t happen. (On the off-chance you do have a friend that likes to clean, send ’em my way!)
My friend and I have started taking before and after photographs of our cleaning and organizing projects. We will then email or text the photographs to each other. This works because we get to see the improvement from the start of the task to the end, offer suggestions on what might work, get suggestions of things we should do, plus we get the validation of our friend seeing the hard work we put into it and cheering us on. Which is really the biggest reason of all. (Because most husbands won’t notice, which is a different matter entirely….)
If you like websites with real cleaning/organizing advice (not one of those silly “clean these 30 things every day” types) here is one to try: modernmom.com What’s your favorite website for advice?