By asking your people to contribute to creating the systems in your home, you are upping your percentages that they will also participate in the good fight to maintain order.
YES YOU CAN do it by yourself but why would you want to?
Let us begin with LABELS. Don’t be scared. Some disorganized people I know get extraordinarily angry at the mention of labels as if it puts them in a Stepford Wife category of organization. Not so.
Kill two birds with one stone and get your kids involved in an activity of creating their own labels for Toys, Clothes, Pots and Pans, Blankets, Magazines, Shoes. They get to be creative, practice their spelling and unknowingly learn where things in their house “live”.
For a spouse or a roommate, crayons and sticky paper won’t do the trick. You have to do some polling and figure out what things are more important to them. For instance, if your spouse is the one responsible for filing insurance papers, you may want to ask their opinion on how the files should be labeled.
“Well, I think “Insurance” is too general. I would file the medical as “Aetna” and the car as “All State”.
TA-DA! You just got other people involved. It is that easy! Let go of some of the control in order for other people to participate.
If you think labeling your kitchen cabinets or even the fridge is too uptight, think again. Putting away groceries and dishes has never been easier and now you can put an end to the excuses…“But I don’t know where any of that stuff goes!”
If you want 4 MORE YEARS of organization, put the people in your party to work.
Julia & Nicole
I am OBSESSED with the brother p-touch.
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