Even professional organizers have to declutter and reorganize our own homes from time-to-time.  And, yes, I do admit it-I LOVE it!!  Recently I’ve been working away at my own home organization project out in the garage.  My garage already has shelving and overhead storage units and hooks on the walls, so it wasn’t like I was in bad shape or anything.  But some items have been leaving the garage, giving me a good opportunity to move things around and do some fine tuning.  

I store a lot of my organzing supplies and products out in the garage but I also had some of these types of items in my home office as well.  Since I have some extra room in the garage now, I decided this was a good time to look at what I have been storing in my office that might be better suited for the garage so I can grab and go as I leave the house.  I want to make packing up to leave the house for clients and classes as efficient as possible. 

While I was out there, I decided that part of fine tuning would be to capture some items that were sitting on the shelf and give them suitable homes.  As you see in the photo above, my ziplock bags were sitting on a shelf next to some file boxes.  Now, this really didn’t look that bad, but they did seem a little bit random just sitting there.  I decided to use a shoebox size bin to round them up and of course afix a handy dandy label to the outside!  I couldn’t get all three boxes in the bin, so I just placed the actual bags from one half-used box next to the other two boxes. 

When you give belongings a home:

• You place a cap on how much you can keep
• You make it clear to others where things go
• You have a clear home to return items to when you are done with them

Give your belongings a home to make your life easier and make your home look neater too!

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