It’s time to get organized!

You’ve seen the television shows – people living with mounds and mounds and
rooms and rooms of clutter and trash.

Well, you may not be a hoarder or live in those extreme living conditions but maybe there are some areas in your home where you can be a little cleaner, a little neater. The actual work is not the hardest but getting motivated to tackle it.

Cynthia Ewer writes about home organization over at the organized home. There are tons of helpful hints there. A recent post is a blueprint for people seeking a more stream lined home.

According to Ewer step one is the actual organizing, not spending money on cute, well-coordinated items. While those are tempting on the purse strings, it’s not necessary in the very first step.

Ewer’s rallying cry is, “Organization is a process, not a product.” She suggests thinking past labels for organizational items such as using a lipstick holder to hold sewing thread instead of an expensive “thread organizer” from the craft store.

That’s what Ewer refers to as making use of common products. There are also tricky ways that retailers will try and sell the same item at three different price points.

A good example of that is a plastic box with dividers in it that can be labeled as (1) a box for fishing tackle, (2) a box for small hardware items and (3) a box to hold cross-stitch thread. All three can be found in same store and that’s why Ewer suggests people on an organizational
hunt “cross-check” before they make any purchases.

Ewer noted that a fellow frugal organizer desired a cross-stitch pattern organizer in a crafts store. Each pattern leaflet was threaded onto a plastic bar with three holes. The entire unit could be stored in a large three-ring binder.

At home the frugal organizer realized that the expensive plastic holders weren’t necessary and she used a three-hole punch she already had at home on the pattern leaflet itself, thus saving money she would have spent at the craft store.

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That’s why it literally does pay to be creative when it comes to organizing.

Another tip that Ewer suggests for those wanting to organizer on a dime is yard sales. She said organizer products are like curtains – they go with the house so that smart wall-hung mop-and-broom rack that worked so well in one house is replaced by a smaller version in the next
house.

Between moving from one house to next and unplanned, impulse purchases, organizing products are a yard sale staple, Ewer said.

“If you know what you need, you're likely to find it at a yard sale sooner or later,” Ewer said. “Don't be put off by dust and stains; plastic products clean up nicely in the dishwasher. Make your list and hit some yard sales. You'll get organized . . . for less!”