Your Complete Guide to Get Organized

The get organized guide gives you specific instructions on organizing rooms and items in your home and life, organized by timing (daily, monthly, seasonally) or event (holidays, travel). No matter how much time you have to spare, you can find an organizing project to fit your schedule. I love this baked-in flexibility, and I hope you find it useful, too.

Get Organized Daily
Get Organized Weekly
Get Organized in 10 Minutes
Get Organized in 30 Minutes
Get Organized Monthly
Get Organized By Season: Fall
Get Organized By Season: Winter
Get Organized By Season: Spring
Get Organized by Season: Summer

Get Organized Basics
Get Organized Tools
Get Organized for Travel
Get Organized for the Holidays
Get Organized: Clutter
Get Organized Pictures
Getting Organized: Guys Guide
Get Organized: Reader Tips

Get Organized Daily

Establishing some basic routines in your daily life will make on-going organization easier. The more research I do into establishing good daily habits--in everything from eating and exercising to practicing instruments and foreign languages--the more important I believe they are.

Get Organized Weekly

Following a weekly organizing routine takes the decision making and potential agonizing over when you're going to organize and what you need to organize out of the picture. In this plan, you go through one room a day in your home for 30 minutes.

Get Organized in 10 Minutes

Just 10 minutes can be a very powerful amount of time. Think about sitting in the waiting room, or when you have a few minutes to spare in the kitchen while that pot is boiling. Instead of checking your email (again) or staring off into space, put yourself to work by completing one of these super-quick tasks.

Get Organized in 30 Minutes

Armed with 30 minutes and a plan, you can make a serious dent in organizing any space in your home. The key is to attack one area -- not wander aimlessly around your home decluttering as you go. Below are the spaces whose organization will have the biggest impact on your home.

Get Organized Monthly

Each month we will tackle a larger home organization project. I arm you with all the necessary resources, product picks, a monthly To Do list, and a look at what's currently on sale and what's in season.

Get Organized By Season: Fall

Organizing for Fall is all about swapping your flip flop for boots. Here are some organizing projects that must be down in the months September-November.

Get Organized By Season: Winter

Organizing for Winter focuses on readying for the holidays and some potentially very cold weather. It's also tax season so we'll go through your papers work and documents. Here are some organizing projects that must be down in the months December-April.

Get Organized By Season: Spring

Organized Book Collection from Domino Magazine

Organizing for Spring means transitioning your home from down comforters and fleece jackets and boots to light-weight clothes and layers. It's also the time organizing will move outside to the garage. Here are some organizing projects that must be down in the months April-June.

Get Organized by Season: Summer

Organizing for Summer focuses on smaller spaces like junk drawer, kitchen appliances and, finally, back-to-school. Here are some organizing projects that must be down in the months June-August.

Get Organized Basics

Any organizing project will follow the same principles. Learn these five simple rules to organizing, and then apply them to every project you undertake from kitchen pantries and junk drawers to vanities and entry way closets.

Get Organized Tools

Accessory Box - Plastic Storage Container

Organizing tools that professional organizers use to help clients cut clutter, find more storage space and organize homes and offices. These products work and won't break the bank.

Get Organized for Travel

Travel requires a little extra organization. There's nothing more re-assuring than a well-planned itinerary or perfectly packed suit case so you know exactly where you're going, when you're going and what you need while traveling.

Get Organized for the Holidays

Getting organized for the holidays is not just about Christmas presents. Stay ahead of the calendar by following our guide to holiday party planning, etiquette, travel, time management and gift giving.

Get Organized: Clutter

Cutting clutter can be done quickly and efficiently when you work in 10 minute increments on a regular basis. Here's a guide to decluttering everything from your computer to your living room.

Get Organized Pictures

Pictures of ultra-organized homes meant to inspire you to organize and un-clutter your home and then keep it up. I like to call it the Home Organizing Peep Show - a window into what a little home organization can do you for and your surroundings. Keep in mind how each space incorporates clutter control and home storage options. Look for organizing tips and tricks you can use in your home organization projects.

Getting Organized: Guys Guide

When it comes to organizing tips, books and websites there’s a big portion of the population being willfully ignored: single men. Single women tend to read magazines like Real Simple and Martha Stewart Living. As for partnered-up men, being a part of a couple or having your own family means time and tasks are often prioritized for you—the nature of being part of a group dictates that.

The single guy, in his natural habitat, is going solo in prioritizing. In that spirit, here’s a guide for organizing for the wolf pack of one.

Get Organized: Reader Tips

A collection of our reader's best "get organized" tips for clothes, closets, bathrooms, kitchens and shoes.

Personal Organizing

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