Situational Disorganization
Sometimes life happens and without our realizing it, clutter invades our homes causing our haven to become overwhelming and stressful. Perhaps you had a baby, a child left for college, divorce, marriage, death of a loved one, loss of a job, illness. So many times, life happens and causes the clutter to build up. This is called Situational Disorganization (compared to Chronic Disorganization).
How to Complete Your Own Home Transformation
If this is you, tackle one area at a time. Pick a room and then a corner and start. Begin by deciding where each item will live in the home and if it’s in a different room, take it there. For example, if you have a screwdriver in the bedroom, but you keep the majority of tools in the tool kit that’s in a closet under the stairs, take the screwdriver to the closet under the stairs. Then every tool you find throughout your decluttering, you’ll know to take it to the closet under the stairs. As you make your way through each space, continue to assign homes and keep sorting like with like. (I recommend utilizing bins to sort so you can place the tool in one bin and then run all the tools at the end of your session, rather than running back and forth during the session).
Once you start the decluttering process, the key to maintaining it is returning every item to its assigned home after using it.

