I have a very well organized closet.
The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.
I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.
When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.
Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?
It will not always be summer; build barns.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.
I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.
I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying books twice because I couldn't find what I already have in all my mess.
I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.
Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.
Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.
Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.
