Myth: Getting Organized Costs Too Much Time and Money!

Myth:  Getting organized costs too much time and money   

Truth: Think about how many minutes a day are you waste trying to find something you know you have but can’t find?  How many times have you gone to replace an item only to find it later?  The average American spends almost an hour a day looking for items they know they have but can not find! Where do you fall on this spectrum?  If you fall on it at all, you are already spending too much time and money being disorganized….

Fact: It does take time to get your home organized.  You have to be committed to following through with the process.  It’s one thing to get organized, but staying organized means you are committed to making your process work, which means putting time in when needed. It means trading old habits in for new habits.  I often tell my clients it’s like loosing weight. You have lost it but now what?  You have to maintain.

But the end result means you save time.  You are trading some hard work up front for a lifetime of minutes. Imagine saving an hour a day rather than wasting it.  Imagine knowing exactly where an item is, when you need it.  No more running around the house flipping things over looking for your keys!  You have just eliminated the stress and chaos in your home and brought yourself peace of mind.

What about those repeat items, we mentioned earlier.  Unfortunately it happens, you can’t find what you need, so you replace it and then a few months down the road, you find it, and now you have two or maybe even three! You can also waste money by buying something you didn’t think you had, and then come to find out you did.

Fact: You actually do not need to spend money to get organized.  Buying organizing products is nice and can be helpful, however it’s not the product making you organized.  It’s the systems you put into place and there are a lot of creative ways to do this.

I highly recommend you wait to buy organizing product until you know for sure what the purpose of the container will be and after you have taken measurements.  No reason to be in a hurry to spend money on tubs that happen to be on sale that day!

Not being organized is costing you much more time and money than if you are organized.  Break this myth and don’t let the time and money scare you…. You can’t afford not too!

Happy Organizing!