Hey guys and welcome back to the clutter bug podcast.

Today we're still talking about the different organizing style, so what clutter bug are you?

There's a free test that you can take on my website to discover what your organizing style is and today we're going to discuss

not only the different styles but how to work together under one household. Not every organizing system is the same, not every person organizing.

Not every person organizing system is the same. Not every person organizes the same way.

It isn't one size fits all, despite what you see on TV and on blogs and in organizing books.

Everything sort of looks the same.

But the truth is, when you go into actual families' homes,

it doesn't take you long to realize that people just

put their things away differently.

They want their things stored, organized, displayed

differently than perhaps some of their spouse does

or the way you see traditional organizing systems look.

And so the biggest difference obviously is people who like visual

versus people who like hidden.

Most things that you see on TV magazines are hidden organizing systems.

So inside drawers, inside closet organizing systems, solid bins,

all the same color, you know, on a bookshelf, really a minimal, minimal look.

The truth is, just like people who prefer this minimal look and feel anxiety

when everything's out and displayed, there are people who are visual, who crave

visual abundance and feel that same level of anxiety with everything hidden away under monochromatic buckets and baskets and behind closed doors.

So how do we come up with a compromise? How do we compromise for a family where perhaps the husband is a cricket and likes everything hidden

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