![]() ![]() We did it for the month of October, and it (mostly) worked. Whoever has the most tallies at the end of the month has to do the laundry for the next month. It sounds ridiculous, but I’ve found this strategy really works (and I’m not even particularly competitive).įor example, my boyfriend and I recently came up with a challenge: When either of us leaves an item of clothing on the floor, we get a tally mark. If you turn cleaning up into a game, you can make the process fun. At home, all my catalogs and magazines live in a mail holder my boyfriend got me. If you find it overwhelming to decide where things should go (like I did), enlist those trusty organized people to help you come up with systems and home bases for your stuff. ![]() Any outgoing mail item lives in front of my monitor so I remember to send it out. For example, any snack I bring to work lives in a certain desk drawer. I repeat: Every single item that you own should have a place. Sound familiar? Well, you can reduce the messy explosion if you just make sure that every single item that you own has a place. They never really had an official home, so they’d pile up in a random corner, spilling over into the real work I was trying to get done. Or try setting up a calendar with a neat co-worker that you both share to keep yourself accountable.įor years, I’d throw business cards and paperwork on top of my desk. So use them! See if your organized co-worker will share the rules she sets up in her inbox, or ask your boss how to make your schedule work better for your other colleagues. I know not everyone has a friend who is a professional organizer, but almost everyone knows one or two people who are super neat. My mom’s best friend is a professional organizer, and she taught me how to fold my clothes so they’d fit in my drawers. It’s not just because you’ll see them having a generally easier time in life, but also because they’re really helpful resources.įor example, I can’t tell you how many times an organized friend took pleasure in helping me pick up and straighten out my closet. Trust me: If you surround yourself with roommates and co-workers who are neat, it actually will rub off on you. Here are a few ways to get a bit more organized, fit for the messiest. So today, I’m going to share my tips on what’s worked for me, a real-life, semi-reformed messy person. ![]() Although these neat freaks have the best intentions, they just don’t understand how it feels to suffer as a messy person when tidiness comes naturally to them. There’s tons of information out there on how to get organized, but it’s almost always created by neat people. So, I’m constantly on the lookout for easy (and they have to be really easy) ways to stay organized to keep myself, my co-habitants, and my co-workers sane. Take it from my old roommates (who used to collect my stuff and put it in a laundry basket outside my bedroom) or my boyfriend (who not-so-affectionately refers to my mess as “Emma droppings”): I am a really messy person. ![]()
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