I need ideas. I am completing my house and I get to start all over. What is the best way to start out organized? Come share all of your knowledge with us....PLEASE!!!!

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~Karen
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Karen,
I would say the main thing when you are in a room and want to organize from square one - make zones. This would be grass roots...where to start if you have an empty room. Look at the main area of where you will be. For instance in an office at your desk. Draw an imaginary circle around you (arms lenght out). That is where you will need to put your essentials. Things you use daily or several times a day....phone, stapler, scissors etc.
Zone B is another circle out - things you use every few days.
Zone C is all the way out. Things you use in that room, but not real often. (extra office supplies, old archive files etc.)
Here is an post I did on it: http://www.organizewithsandy.com/2009/0 ... ll-it-can/
Thanks!

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Sandy Jenney
http://www.organizewithsandy.com
@OrganizerSandy

If your ever in OKlahoma and have notihing to do and want to use a place as a sample for your website may I suggest my house. Now it is empty. But I am supposed to move in by may 1.

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~Karen
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LOL - I think you might have to fight Melissa for me if I was there with nothing to do.

You mentioned kid putting thing under their beds.
You might want to try getting an under the bed clear plastic bins. They have rollers on them...or most do. It makes a good storage space for either out of season clothes, blankets, sheets, pillow etc. Then there isn't room to stuff other stuff that doesn't belong under there either.
Just a though.

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Sandy Jenney
http://www.organizewithsandy.com
@OrganizerSandy

Great ideas Sandy!!! Oh I wanna be third on that list!! hehehehe

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