Stephen Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is how to organize stuff that accumulates from schools or from hobbies.

Listener Alex called in.

Hello, my name is Alex. I'm a student from the Netherlands and I study photography and electronics. I have a lot of

different interests and that gives me a lot of problems because I have all kinds of items lying

around in my room and some are closely related like lenses, camera bodies and so on. While others

are totally unrelated,

but I only have one item for them.

So I bought a whole lot of bins

thinking it would make sorting stuff out a lot easier.

But guess what?

I'm wrong.

I can't think of what labels to put on those bins.

Can you help me out?

Because I know how much of a label freak you are

from your project management episodes. So if you would be able to help me, thanks a whole lot.

And, well, if not, I'll just have to find out what else. Thank you.

Alex, I feel your pain.

I was once a student, too, in a single cluttered room.

Now I'm a professional with an apartment that has six cluttered rooms.

It makes me a really good consumer.

Since I can never find anything, I just buy new stuff whenever I need it.

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