There is one mistake that most people do when it comes to organizing their home, which is the critical step, and they're missing it.

And it isn't bins, it isn't basket, it isn't even labels it's actually zoning so in this podcast I'm going to show you

exactly how to zone your home so that it can stay organized for good.

Hey clutterbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

Today we're talking about zoning your home,

and I'm really going to explain what this means,

what this looks like, and why it is the first and most important step of getting organized.

I mean, decluttering is probably the first and most important step, but once you've decluttered, you have to zone your home before you can have any semblance of organizing success. It is absolutely the number one step in the organization process and honestly it's something that a lot of people just aren't doing.

Recently I put out an ad in my local community on a bunch of different Facebook posts looking for families who needed an organizing makeover.

So on my YouTube channel, I oftentimes will go into my community and volunteer my time,

volunteer to buy all the supplies and give a worthy family a home or a room organizing makeover at no cost to them.

I love doing this because I don't do one-on-one organizing anymore. I don't work with paying clients anymore. So this is really such a great opportunity for me to be able to get in there and get my hands dirty and do the thing that I love, but also be able to do it at no cost

to really worthy families who otherwise wouldn't be able to have an opportunity like this.

And I mean the cherry on top is I'm recording it and I'm putting this on YouTube to help hopefully educate and inspire others.

So really fun process but the truth is to find the right family I have to go to a lot of people's homes and do the like scouting so they

apply online they'll send photos and then I will go to these families homes, walk around and do my initial assessment, and we'll talk about some of the ways that I choose a family or not choose a family in a second, but I want to talk about this initial assessment because this last round I went to multiple homes and I was seeing the same pattern over and over again. So not only am I going into someone's home

and assessing their organizing style, but I'm always asking them to not tidy before I come. I want them to leave it exactly how they normally live on a day-to-day basis so I can see how the clutter and the piles and the mess naturally accumulate so that I can really assess the space with a critical eye and help come up with real solutions to catch that clutter.

And I'm saying this because if you are in your home right now,

I'm hoping you kind of walk through the same process

that I'm gonna walk you through

while I go into someone's home,

but in your own home.

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