Get It Together
Organize Your Home (and Streamline Your Life) in 15 Minutes a Day
Try these tricks and you’ll be a vision of organization in no time flat.
January 9, 2023
When in doubt, just declutter.
Depending on your personality and current schedule, devising the perfect storage system for a particular space can sound totally dreamy or totally daunting. Either way, that’s far from the most important part of the home organization process, according to pro organizers. What is? Good old-fashioned decluttering. That’s great news, because decluttering can be done in even the tiniest time increments. Got five minutes? Open the nearest closet, cabinet, or drawer, and weed out an armload of stuff you no longer need/use. “Focus on small goals, like throwing expired food or medicine, or disposing of excess Tupperware items that don’t match up as sets,” says Cheryl Arzewski, cofounder of It’s Organized, based in California and New York/New Jersey. “Getting out items to purge, donate, or sell makes it much easier to see what remains and create an organizational system that works.”