The WRONG Organization = A Messy House 🐞🐝🦗🦋

There are five spaces where using the wrong organizing system can really make your home messy and cluttered. Discover your Clutterbug Organizing Style and make sure to organize these FIVE SPACES for your specific type. Using the wrong system can make your home messy and disorganized, but using the right one can keep it tidy and clean!

00:00 Introduction
00:20 Entrance
01:47 Bathroom
03:20 Workspaces
05:41 Paper
07:36 Command Center
11:01 End Story

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[vyvyhexe]

Thanks to you I'm embracing being a cricket. I've hidden nearly everything, even the Kleenex box, and I feel so much better! I used to believe some things "needed" to be out on display for practical purposes, but they don't if they're just as easy to access when they're hidden. Now I only display things I find beautiful and I love my home even more. Thank you for all your advice, Cas!
And thanks for the laugh 🙈

[CheriJ]

When I was a Girl Scout and selling cookies door-to-door for the first time, I asked the lady who answered the door if her Mom was home. She said, “I AM the Mom of this home.” I was embarrassed and blushed furiously, but I think she was flattered coz she bought a lot of cookies from me!

[debgilgore]

I will ALWAYS stay to the end, because it's pure gold! Could totally relate, Cas. A number of years ago, I was working the reception table at my 40th high school reunion. In the adjacent ballroom in the same building, another school was having their 50th reunion. A woman approached the registration table and I didn't recognize her. Rather than ask her name or just ask if she was there for our reunion, I said, "I believe you must want the (other school's) 50th reunion." She looked at me strangely and asked, "Isn't this (our school) Class of 1979? I'm so-and-so." I was mortified, but truth be told, to me she looked at least 10 years older than I think I look (perhaps I'm delusional), and I quickly apologized and excused myself to go get a drink at the bar. Meanwhile, the other person working the registration table with me was cracking up and has never let me live it down. Not sure I'll go to the next reunion, but one thing's for certain: I will NOT be working the registration table! :)

[lovecatspiracy]

I used to be an art model, and I always spent a couple of hours doing my hair and makeup for every session. One day, I was running extremely late, so I dashed out with no makeup and my hair in a bun. A student asked me during the break if I was that other model's mother...that other model being ME. 😂

[thedebbiedilemma]

When I was a baby, my mom and dad lived in Illinois. My dad loves sports and used to play basketball with the neighborhood kids. Some boys came to the door one day and asked my mom if her boy could come out and play... 😂

[elisabeth]

Don’t be ashamed, simply don’t. You know, when I came into my fifties I realized I wasn’t that easily embarrassed any more and could laugh those mortifying situations off. When I was a young girl a much older friend assured me that there would be a time in life when you joyfully roll in the mess rather than trying to get out of it; didn’t believe him, but the man was right.
Great video as always! ❤❤❤

[cathyschulman]

OMG! I hate when I put my foot in my mouth, too. Try to make friends with that young neighbor. Bake her something yummy and tell her you feel very bad and embarrassed. Be humble. You might become good friends. Don't stop trying.

[peacewG]

Everybody makes mistakes. Make her some brownies and apologize and just explain again how you were so nervous. It will be fine. Don't live with shame. Life is way too short for that! You are amazeballs and don't you forget it!!!

[dianematthews]

Is paranoid squirrel an organizational style? Pretty sure that's the one my mom uses 😄

[MrsAlmaTrumble]

I left the video I was watching to watch Cas. She makes me laugh, smile, snort, and etc.

[chrisoulalakkas]

"Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free."

- Stormie Omartian

[kellyn]

lol. You are the first person I have ever heard say “thanks for coming to my TED Talk” who actually has done a TED Talk.

[katiedettra]

I’m a ladybug and my husband is a butterfly. My husband would never put his shoes inside anything so we have a spot to kick them. It’s a compromise and it’s also funny my bee son always straightens up the shoes!

[dptfo]

For family things, I’m a bee.
For personal things, I’m a ladybug.

I guess it’s weird to be opposites? But it makes so much sense to me for my things to be hidden (because I’m a mom of little kids) and quick to put away.

But for things like dishes or bathroom stuff or clothes or the pantry that everyone is using, it needs to be very visual, and everything needs a very specific place to go so everyone using it knows where to find it, and I always have a specific place to put it away (and I know what’s missing if a spot is empty)
For kids things, less inventory matters the most for us. I labeled bins and put them on a shelf up high, so they have plenty of floor space to play, and they have to ask for specific bins and put the things back in them before I’ll give them another one. Saves me sooo much grief, because I’m not ever asking them to manage all that inventory all at once.

[amypeterson]

“Thanking for coming to my Ted Talk!”😂😂😂 Love it!!

[ziggychiadreamteam]

I’m a Butterfly 🦋 but whenever you call out typical habits of a Butterfly, I’m left looking around like “ Whaaaat?! How does she know me so well?? How does she know all my dirty secrets I haven’t even admitted to anyone!” THANK YOU THANK YOU! I’m taking all these tips and processes and making one change at a time and they work!

[christineb]

I’m still mortified by things I’ve said years and ago, I can so relate 😂😂

[katsophoto]

I can definitely relate to your story about being socially awkward! Once, I was on a cruise and met this guy and a woman who seemed a bit older than him. They were walking hand in hand, so I assumed they were a couple. I offered to take their pictures in exchange for them taking mine since I was traveling with my kids. While we were taking photos, I kept suggesting poses like hugging and kissing, thinking they were a romantic couple. After the photo session, the guy casually mentioned, ‘By the way, this is my mother.’ I was mortified! Thank you for sharing your story and making me feel less alone in my awkward moments!

[HappyHarryX]

Realised the other day that my glass container drawer is always full so I don’t use all of them at once so I don’t need all of them in there. I thought I go through there regularly but still found lids without containers. Ugh. So I’ve just got 2 of each and 3 of the big ones in there now. Feels like scarcity mindset at the moment but I’ll get there. The fact that the drawer below is full of plastic containers isn’t giving me comfort. It’s a long haul changing the mindset when you’re single and how much you need. ❤

[heatherburrill]

My opinion: I think that you are excellent friend material ❤. I would just explain that your brain gets wonky at times and says the wrong words and that when you heard yourself say mother instead of sister you were mortified and embarrassed because it wasn’t the word you actually meant and you saw her getting upset. If she is good neighbour material she will learn to laugh it off and laugh with you. My brain does things like that in awkward situations too. Years ago, while running a visiting 8th grade wilderness class trip we played the game two truths and a lie to get everyone a bit more comfortable with each other. I was one of the first to go and one of the 3 statements I made was “I was a surrogate mother to 3 baby howler monkeys” … a moment of silence passed as I realized that I hadn’t said “adoptive mother” and said “oh that’s not what I meant!” And everyone started laughing 🤣 one girl said “ I thought that you were just a really bad liar”. Needless to say it broke the ice and everyone was so much more comfortable because no 8th grader had to worry about saying something stupid 😊
Embrace your awkwardness it is part of our human charm 😊