Getting Organized At Home – Do You Need To Stretch Your Comfort Zone When Organizing Your Home

Does home organization scare you? I know that this sentence may sound weird. In most cases, home organization is perhaps not on the top of the list of things that makes your heart beat faster.

However, there might be situations, when you have to learn new things in order to accomplish a task. In this article, I describe the biggest obstacles you might have when it comes to home organization.

You don’t have the necessary tools

Sometimes you may need to assemble something that requires bigger tools than just screwdriver or measuring tape. For example, you may need to have a drilling machine or other piece of bigger machinery to take care of the job.

If you think you can’t handle those bigger tools, you might want to ask for some help from a friend who has more experience of using the tools. Also, in some cases you may need to hire some external help to do the assembling, if the installation task is so big to accomplish.

In general, it doesn’t hurt to ask for some help if you are not able to do it by yourself.

You don’t have the necessary knowledge

You might not have the necessary skills to handle the task. The instructions may be difficult to follow or you don’t have the skills to use the machinery the right way.

Once again, you can and you should ask external help if you hesitate to do the task by yourself. Also, in some cases you might find some help by buying literature related to home organization or looking out for blogs or forums that are dealing with home organization in general.

Start out small

Once you accomplish something that you found to be hard, your self esteem sky rockets. You were able to accomplish something that you thought was impossible.

This is what happened to me. I had to assemble a TV desk by myself and the instructions were quite complex to follow. It took me some time to assemble the desk, but I finally did it. I was so happy about myself and I’m lucky I managed to do the task myself.


To check out even more tips on getting organized at home, check www.simpledecluttering.com for more articles, tips and advice related to home organization and decluttering (for example how to keep your room decluttered).

How to organize your bookshelf

I have updated my site with an article which describes how to organize your bookshelf:

http://www.simpledecluttering.com/how-to-organize-your-bookshelf/

Even though I own quite a few e-books, I have to say that the traditional book still beat e-books hands down in readability. And bookshelves are going to stay in our homes for a long time so the organization advice is still needed :)

Contact form, social icons, printing

Added some other features today to my site: printing, social bookmarking and contact form. Check out www.simpledecluttering.com to see them in action!

New layout + about page

I have just updated the new layout of the site:

http://www.simpledecluttering.com/

I have also included an about page which tells a bit about myself and why I started this site in the first place.

How to organize your master closet

I posted couple of tips related to master closet organization:

http://www.simpledecluttering.com/how-to-organize-your-master-closet/

My master closet is not the biggest one out there, but hopefully these tips are helpful even if you have the bigger one than mine.

How to organize your bills

I updated my site with a new article, which tells some tips related to organizing your bills:

http://www.simpledecluttering.com/how-to-organize-your-bills/

Go and check them out!

How to organize your paper files

In this document I give some tips on how to manage your paper files:

How to organize your paper files.

You can for example avoid the printing in the first place, get rid of the ones you don't need or buy a filing system. Check out the article for more tips on this topic.

Organize basement

I have just published an article on how to organize your basement. This is pretty much the steps I took when I organized my basement couple of weeks ago.

The amount of work and steps may be different based on the size of your basement, but at least you get started with these:

http://www.simpledecluttering.com/organize-basement/