You know what seems to be the biggest problem in keeping a place neat and tidy? Having a place for everything.
I love that old adage "A place for everything and everything in its place." Such wisdom, such logic, such sense.
Except... except I'm not sure all the time just how to find a place for everything.
The cleaning bug hits me. Not the one I've been trying to cultivate for daily tidiness, but the one that reallyreallyreally wants to get the house looking nice. And so beings the all-encompassing make-this-room-awesome.
And I find a basket or some knicknack... and where the heck does it go? I stand in the room, holding said item, and realize just how important that "a place for everything" sentence fragment is.
So I've learned that one of the most vital parts of cleaning and organizing is having a place for everything.
Put all those homeless objects in their own area, write them down, and determine a place for them. Write that place down. Keep doing so until you've established "a place for everything."
If you can't find a place for it, you probably don't need it.
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