4 Reasons Your Chair Pile is a Good Thing
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It hurts my heart to see so many blogs and tips on home organization scorn the piles that accumulate on your chairs, in your baskets, and on . But we aren’t your ordinary organizers. We know life gets real and even real hard. So let’s redefine what it looks like to have your house organized, because we are here to say embrace the piles! Your chair pile is not a bad thing, and guess what? It can actually help you in your organization plan and journey. Here’s why.
1. A Starting Place
If you are anything like me, it can be hard to find the motivation to get going and even harder to keep going. So having set places you can consolidate the mess to will make it easier to start your journey. I am going to lovingly call these dedicated places "doom piles”. They can seem like a mountain of doom to climb when you look at them all together, but usually, each one is a manageable hill that you can knock out in around 10 minutes and feel a sense of accomplishment. Keep in mind that it is fine to just get your chair usable or be able to open the junk drawer in the kitchen again. But one thing I have learned is when I get one pile done I am much more likely to have the energy to knock out the next hill.
2. Creates a strategy
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Depending on what tends to collect in your doom piles, they usually keep your life organized, even if it looks disheveled to others. The next step is to figure out a solution and strategy to retrain you to unconsciously give everything a home or at least a way to be less visually cluttering. Is your chair pile a stack of the clothes you can wear again, where your purse and jacket land after work, or the stack of mail you need to deal with? If so, creating a basket dedicated to those clothes, adding a hook by the door, or getting a box for the mail could be an easy way to give these things a designated home that frees up your chair for its intended use.
3. Is actually a way of organizing.
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Often we categorize without even realizing it. Take a look at your chair piles and your junk drawers and categories may emerge. This is actually a way of organizing, similar to the idea of a doom box. Have stuff you can’t find a home for? Put it in a categorized, labeled box. You can even combine multiple categories in one box or have a miscellaneous box. This is true organized chaos, and it is a good thing if it works for you!
4. Shows that organization is a process
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Show us a home without a junk drawer, a miscellaneous box, or a chair pile. Even the most organized homes have some less organized spots. This is because home organization is a routine and not a once and done task. One of our favorite things is helping you make an organization plan that you can implement with our help or at your own pace. Having a plan helps the organization routine evolve and grow with you and your family.