[New video] Get organized without new supplies
I always encourage clients to wait to purchase new organizing containers until we've done the work of sorting. Sorting is far less fun than shopping, but without ample time on this step, newly purchased products are commonly unused or misused.
So how do you organize if you're not "allowed" to buy new products until later? Do what I've been doing for ages: use what you have. This new video shows you how, using 5 client examples:
Clients often return to me years after we started, telling me that one of the most helpful things they remember from our work together was me saying “you always have exactly what you need.”
Sometimes you can shop your home for organizing products, but more often, I turn simple cardboard boxes into perfect little organizing boxes. This is one of the reasons why I always carry a pocket knife with me when I work.
In this new video I show you many examples of boxes I’ve literally carved up for clients. These hold photos, supplies, files, and more.
They’re not perfect, but they’re perfectly fine.
I do this for three reasons:
1. I don’t want a lack of supplies to ever slow me down.
2. It teaches my clients that shopping first is sometimes an excuse to not do the dirty work that must happen for solutions to last.
3. We use the size and shape of temporary cardboard boxes to inform the specs for prettier, more permanent boxes when we upgrade.
Below is a photo that I took after filming the video. It is of a “Bento box” that I created in a client’s supply drawer. Every time I visit, she reminds me of how much she absolutely loves it. It was built-out with 8 boxes and lids we found in her home. They happened to fit juuust right. Had we waited to shop for drawer organizers, this couldn’t have come together within minutes the on day she needed a solution on the spot.
I always smile when I return to a client’s home years later to see the “temporary” boxes still in place. Even with permission to upgrade, many don’t because perfectly fine is usually just fine.
Click here to watch the video. Please leave a comment (either here or on YouTube!) if you find this helpful! If you struggle with the hard part - the sorting - or any other part of organizing, reply to this email and tell me where exactly you need help.
