Hey guys, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

Today I wanted to talk about one of my favorite organizing and decluttering, I guess,

tips.

It really helped me not only get organized, but stay organized for good.

And that tip is finding the valuable real estate in your home and using it.

I know that might seem, I don't know, like a crazy thing, but here is what I was

like organizing for me in the beginning. I would pull everything out of, say, a closet or a

cupboard or a drawer, and I would put it all back neatly inside

containers sometimes even labeled containers and what would happen is you know a week

a month a few months later it would be a total disaster again.

And I couldn't figure out why. I couldn't figure out why I would take the time to

organize something but it wouldn't stay organized or why my surfaces were still really cluttered.

So the kitchen counter was always cluttered, the top of my dressers,

in the bedrooms were always really cluttered.

We have a table like a little armore when you enter the house and it was always cluttered full of stuff.

And it was just, you know, every time I cleaned it up, it would just get get messy again and I didn't understand why and it wasn't until I heard the theory about

Finding the valuable real estate and how important it is to actually store your things where you naturally drop them.

That sort of a light bulb moment came.

A light bulb came on and it was like a light bulb moment that really transformed my home and I'm able to keep it organized for good.

So I know this is kind of confusing so I'm going to give you like a ton of examples to help you really see what I'm talking about and we'll start with the

kitchen. So for me in the kitchen, one of the problem areas that I had was papers. And I know what you're thinking.

Papers don't obviously belong in the kitchen,

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