How to Organize Your Home (or not)
Some Tips on How to Avoid Organized Living Altogether

You want to know how to organize your home. That is after all why you landed here on this page!

But organizing your home is not a small task. It involves not only organizing your home spaces but the people who live in it as well. (See Parenting Advice for an Organized Home)

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This means that you will need some level of personal organization skills as well as people organization skills.

You will also need time because getting your house organized doesn't happen overnight and it requires consistent effort and sometimes even trial and error to find what works best for your and your family.

Where's the List?

So where is the organization-makes-sense.com list of organization tips for how organize your home? You know that list ...the one you were looking for when you landed on this page?

Well, since the pages of this site are are so full of information on how to get organized and how to understand the process, I thought maybe I would approach this topic a little differently and have a bit of fun.

Instead of giving you ideas about what to do to organize your house and family, I am going to tell you what not to do.

Sort of like reverse psychology. This is the technique that you use for people who you know will always do the exact opposite of what you want.

Now I am not saying that you are that kind of person, but here is my reverse psychology method for explaining how to organize your home.

Have fun with it!

How Not to Organize Your Home

Follow these 10 guidelines for how not to organize your home and I can guarantee you will be able to get more and more clutter and disorganization in your life and avoid organized living altogether!

10 tips to Un-Organize Your Home FAST!

Shop 'til you Drop - be a good consumer and get out there and buy stuff, even stuff you do not need or want. When you think you have enough go and buy more. Better yet every time you feel emotionally upset or are having a bad day engage in shopping therapy to make yourself feel better. Just remember that in order to create more clutter you must always add to what you already have so if you buy duplicates of any item make sure you keep each and every one!

Do not plan - live in the moment and only deal with what is going on right now. Who cares if you cannot find your socks, your briefcase or your keys tomorrow morning? You are happy right now and you should be able to do only what you want to do at this moment.

Assign the same level of importance to everything - Forget about how to set priorities. Instead assign the same level of urgent importance to everything. This will help to make you feel truly overwhelmed and if you are feeling overwhelmed about getting organized you can just go shopping!

Accept every free item that is offered to you - if it's free it must be worthwhile and having.

Never ever say no, to anyone or anything, not even to yourself - This method is guaranteed to win your friends because no one will ever be mad at you! and in addition you will likely never have to be bothered with clutter control. You will just keep accumulating stuff. Definitely a win/win situation for the clutter lover!

Continue with procrastination - why make a decision today when you can do it tomorrow, or the day after, or the year after that! Clearing clutter? not today - maybe tomorrow

Create emotional attachments to your stuff - being emotionally attached to stuff is so much safer than forming relationships with people. If you ignore clutter control altogether your stuff will never abandon you, hurt your feelings, or be late for a lunch date! When your stuff has such wonderful emotions and memories attached why would anyone want to go out and create new memories??

Stay stuck in the past - the future is so uncertain but the past is a known entity. There are no uncertainties in the past! Actually moving forward in your life would mean clearing clutter (horrors!). Better to stick with what you know than face an uncertain future.

Think emotionally not logically - use your emotions as the basis for every decision in your life and you are guaranteed to have more of what you already have!

Keep everything "just in case" - in order to keep your clutter you must assume that everything you keep will have some usefulness in the future. You do not have to plan to use it tomorrow or even the next day just someday! You should not be planning to use it anyway or you are breaking one of these rules!