The most common mistakes when ordering the house and how to avoid them

Save before throwing

It is super common. We save, save and save and we throw almost nothing, with which we accumulate things without stopping. The result? In the end you don't know what you have, what you want or what you should throw away and little by little chaos takes over everything.

Sort by stays

Another of the typical mistakes is to sort by rooms instead of categories. If you think globally and order all the clothes you have at home or all the books, to give two examples, you have a better chance that your strategy will work. If not, you order the clothes in the bedroom, and suddenly the clothes in the storage room or the dressing room appear and spoil what you had ordered.

more than the bill

When you go to anything at home, you must first seriously consider if you really need it. A trick that does not fail is to think that for everything that enters the house, another has to come out. So if you want to add one, you can start thinking about what thing you are going to throw to make room for it.

Do not leave free space

Another failure of the book is not taking into account that over time we will accumulate more things. And when planning the decoration and order, we forget to leave free spaces that we will fill later.

Charge yourself with the ordering mission

Unless you live alone, order and cleanliness is not a single issue, it has to be shared by all family members or people who live in the house. And consequently the system that we devise to order has to be affordable, as well as known and accepted by all. If only you know about it, not only will you end up carrying all the work, but you will also be continually boycotted without wanting to know it.

Do not compartmentalize

A site for each thing and a thing for each site. Not only do you have to provide spaces to store, but also compartments so that they do not mix with each other, facilitating location and use.

Complicate your life

There has to be a balance. While it is true that there must be space and compartments for everything, if you use a super complicated system, you will not be able to follow it yourself. If after a couple of weeks you have forgotten the system you came up with, it is most likely not a good method …

Leave everything in between

How many books and things do you accumulate next to the bed? The idea of having to keep everything in its place is lazy but if you think about it coldly, it costs much less to save them than to leave them anywhere, since sooner or later you will have no choice but to take them to their

Stack things

Stacks of books, papers, clothes … are one of the main enemies of order. The ease with which stacks are created is inversely proportional to how difficult it is to dispose of them. You are leaving some things on top of others without realizing it, and the day you decide to order them seems like an impossible mission.

Leave it all for tomorrow

This error has the same mechanism as that of leaving everything in the middle. First you have the satisfaction of having gotten rid of that heavy task, but sooner or later you will have to face it. So don't put off the order. The sooner you get rid of it, the better you feel (and the more organized you have everything).

What can you do is the mess in your bag?

Then you're in luck because Marie Kondo has the solution for you to keep your bag impeccably organized. It doesn't matter if you're fed up with this "guru of order" too, these simple tricks will save you from more than one headache, promised!

If ordering has become an impossible mission for you, it is most likely that you have made one of the mistakes that we have told you. But do not despair, here are the tricks to remedy it.

Find your own ordering system

Don't compare yourself to the others. Each one has different needs and habits, so the order system that works for others may not suit you.
Don't overthink it. Planning is necessary, but just enough. Waiting to find a perfect plan of action before hitting the road can cause clutter to reign for years.
Don't jump into boxes. There is no point in storage objects without knowing if you will need them. Before you design your plan thoroughly.

In order not to get confused, choose only one method and follow it

Don't go over organized

Don't make it too complicated. You must be a realistic method. No matter how effective a system is, if it's too complicated you won't keep it for too long.
Don't forget your family. If you do not explain the changes and what the new organization consists of, they will not be able to contribute to order and your efforts will be of little value.
Don't think it is a matter of a day. It's not enough to just beat yourself up one day and forget about it. On the contrary, the ideal is that before going to bed you spend 10-15 minutes to order.

Choose furniture that suits your needs

Use head space …

Don't make towers. These lead to clutter when you want to grab what's on the bottom. Better take advantage of the space by placing things on their sides (as we told you in the step by step to fold with the Marie Kondo method) and not one over the other.
Don't just fill the drawers. Compartmentalizing them will help you keep everything in order and easily find what you are looking for.
Don't leave "magnets" out of chaos. A chair by the bed, an empty console, magnets on the fridge … Avoid them at all costs as they attract clutter.

Don't use wide shelves for narrow things

Use special effects

Be careful with the contrasts. Mixing very different decorative objects gives a chaotic look. Instead, uniformity helps something appear more orderly. So choose them with similar colors or styles.
Don't fill it to the max. If the cabinets, shelves … are saturated, they will seem cluttered. Also, when cleaning it is important to leave space for what you buy in the future.

Don't keep saving things you no longer need, get rid of them

The accumulation is going to end

Don't leave anything "just in case". Be honest with yourself and get rid of everything that you have not used in recent months. And don't buy anything if you haven't gotten rid of something else before.
Don't throw away, donate it. Thinking that your things are going to end up in the trash can make you sad, and for that alone you decide to save them. Giving it to someone you know who needs it will make getting rid of those things cost much less.
Don't let them have an opinion on what you throw away. While some people can help you by giving you unbiased advice on whether or not to throw something away, others can push you to save what you shouldn't.

Don't forget the little ones

A house with small children can also be neat. The key is that you choose furniture to suit them or to help them order, such as boxes with a drawing of what they should put inside.