How can you organize your home without letting something go?  As a busy mom and a professional organizer with two businesses, I have been told I have to let something go.  Tell me, what should I let go?  Feeding my kids?  I’m thinking no.  Start living in a messy house?  I think not.  Get behind in my paperwork?  Not really sounding  good to me so far.

I am a very task-oriented person, so in the past I have felt like I needed to get my whole house in order before I could sit down to think to get my business work done.  Well, that’s not always such a great plan either.  So, with the kids home for the summer and lots of interruptions, here is my simple way to kind of “let something go” without having it all fall apart.

Now, when my kids are off somewhere I make myself go sit down in my office and do the work that I know will be difficult to do when there are kids and noise going on around me.  Now, I look at tasks in the house and evaluate if I want to do them now or if it would be better to save them for later.  Examples of what I would save for later:  folding laundry on my bed because I can actually do that while I am talking on the phone.  Cleaning up the kitchen or vacuuming the floor can be done when there are kids around and distractions.  Working in the yard can happen while the kids play outside.

So, I’m still organized and I’m still getting things done, I’m just judging when they should be done a lot better.  And, if the floor doesn’t get swept today, well, that’s not such a  big deal-at least the kids got fed!

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