Welcome back to another Clutterbug podcast.

We're still doing our Clutterbug series.

This is going to be the last podcast in this series.

And today we're talking about the different organizing styles.

Organizing styles.

Organizing is definitely not one size fits all and I learned this the hard way

being a professional organizer in my community failing to set up systems that work for

everyone. I'd have one client and something would work

amazing for them or it would work great for me or a family member and not work for someone

else and I could not figure out why and it took lots of trial and errors for me to discover

that there are actually four distinct styles and today we're talking about a cricket.

A cricket is someone who really likes visual simplicity so they don't like looking at everything, all their belongings. They like things behind closed doors in closets. They like things to be really neat and orderly, but they also

are a bit of perfectionists and they really like to have detailed micro organizing systems.

This means sort of organization within organization.

When they set up a system, they want things

to be really sorted and everything

to have a really proper home.

Sometimes this need for perfection can lead to procrastination.

What I mean is sometimes the ideal organizing system that the cricket wants, it's going to take time and

effort or even money to set up.

So what they do is they pile things in the meantime.

They pile things until they're done using them and they pile things until they have a

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