Shoestring Organizing: Declutter and Organize on a Tight Budget

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

Buy Nothing Challenge!

This week’s assignment is to come up with a solution to one of your organizing challenges without spending a dollar (or a Euro, or any other form of currency):

• Identify a group or collection of items for which you’ve had difficulty finding a storage system.
• Gather all the members of the set into one place to get a sense of the volume and dimensions of the space they’ll occupy.
• Look for inspiration at our web site. Start by reading the clever solutions that other members of our audience came up with for this week’s survey.
• Now go shopping in your own “store.” Check your closets, attic, basement, garage, or wherever you keep stuff that’s not in use.
• Don’t be afraid to consider unusual options! No box, bin, carton, jar, tray, or piece of unused furniture should be off limits.
• Still stumped? Describe the problem that you’re trying to solve to friends, family members, or your local Facebook “buy nothing” group to see whether you might crowdsource the perfect answer.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.