How To Organize: Step 1

Think SYSTEMS.   SYSTEMS are the key to organizing success.

1. Pick a room
2. Pull everything out of the cupboards, drawers, shelves. 
3. Consolidate everything out into a giant pile in the center of the room.
4. Lay out lots and lots of buckets or containers around the perimeter of the room.                             (I like using Bankers Boxes
or Plastic Boxes
5. Eyeball your pile and look for broad themes of like-items.
6. Label your buckets with those broad categories.
7. Toss the like-items into your buckets .   This could take you hours.  This could take you days.
8. Then, subdivide into smaller piles of like items. 
9. Eyeball the quantities of items to get a sense of the next suitable, prettier, more long term storage devices and containers.
10. To maximize long-term storage space, the buckets can also be stored in a Box Organizer Unit or Rack Like This