What Home Organizing Really Means
3 Critical Steps to Get an Organized Home
Welcome to the Home Organizing for Beginners podcast.
In this podcast you’ll get tangible and simple instructions about home organizing. Instructions that keep you, your family, and your current season of life at the core; all while glorifying God in the process so that you and your family can finally feel true peace and joy.
I’m your host Tammy.
In today’s episode you’ll learn what home organizing is, why it’s important and the 3 foundational steps in getting your home organized.
Buckle up and listen in because we’re getting right to the point.
What Home Organizing Is
I Googled “What is Home Organizing.”
The definition of home organizing is important right off the bat because if you think it’s something that it isn’t and you're really trying hard to get to a place that organizing your home just isn’t going to get you to, well, then you’ll be disappointed and I don’t want that for you.
Google AI Overview says:
Home organizing involves creating systems and strategies to declutter, simplify, and manage possessions within a home, ultimately making it more functional and livable.
Does that fit what you think about home organizing?
I actually expected to find something completely off the wall, but am pleasantly surprised with this AI Overview.
Nowhere does it tell you that it’s about making a space LOOK organized or have nice bins and baskets to organize your things. Nor does it say anything about getting rid of the majority of your things.
Why It’s Important
This is what I heard when the kids were younger and continue to hear as the narrative for busy moms today. Your home can look magazine worthy, you only need to do x, y and z every day, week and month.
I think reality dictates and tells us that we all have different things going on in life and following a script that someone else puts together can be helpful in the way of giving us ideas, but truly for your home to be organized in a functional way that works for you, your family and your current season of life, you have to do the work to get it that way!
That may not be what you wanted to hear, but that is the truth.
I care about all busy moms enough to give you nothing but the truth!
What I could have used and still can is a community of busy moms just coming together to support one another without feeling judged for how we manage our homes. For a long time I searched for that type of community. Now that my kids are older I’m actually able to create a community like this. I’m just starting out and the name of this community is changing day by day, but the main point is that the purpose of the community is staying the same.
That is to bring busy moms together to support them and guide them. To support and guide YOU so that you can save time. So that you can feel seen and heard for how things are in your home. So you can share what you struggle with and get actual practical advice from someone who truly cares.
Join this community as we just get started, heck help give it the right name!
When you follow the steps and do the work to understand how your home will best function in the way that you live life in it each day, so much good will come. Your home will stay more organized, your home will feel more comfortable for you, you’ll have this level of confidence about it that you’ve not had before and you’ll easily shift your organized spaces from one season of life to the next.
Again, the definition that I really like:
Home organizing involves creating systems and strategies to declutter, simplify, and manage possessions within a home, ultimately making it more functional and livable.
It’s important to know that the focus is on the functionality over the fashion.
The 3 Foundational Steps to Get an Organized Home
Step 1 - Sort
This is probably what you call decluttering. I like the terminology of sort in the context of organizing your home because you’re first sorting through all the things in a space and making decisions. Are you keeping it, relocating it, throwing it away, donating, or maybe you don’t know. And that’s ok! When I organized our basement about 3 years after we moved in, I had to have a DON’T KNOW pile because otherwise I literally would have spent a day per item trying to decide what to do with one thing. It was better to set it aside and move on.
As a side note, the beauty of the community for busy moms is that you could get suggestions or thoughts or permission to set it aside into a DON’T KNOW pile!
Step 2 - Organize
This is what most people think of when they think about getting organized. This is the more glamorous step because you get to put things back the way you want to keep them. But there is something super important that you need to keep in mind, focus on the function first. Once you have it functioning the way you want it to, then you can shift your attention to the fashion or decor.
Step 3 - Sustain
And this is the step that I don’t think anyone does or wants to do, but it’s the game changer. This is what allows you to actually keep your organized space organized. You have to do some documentation. When you document what you expect people to do within the area that you organized, you stand a chance at keeping it that way or at worst getting it put back together quickly. You document functional expectations and work instructions. If the kiddo’s can’t read yet, that’s ok because the documents are for YOU too, not just the kids.
I’m excited to help busy moms as much as my God given gifts will allow. With that said, I want to offer you the Home Organizing for Beginners online course for free when you subscribe to the Community for Busy Moms with an annual or premier subscription. To take advantage of this, you will need to subscribe by the end of the day Sunday March 23, 2025.
That’s what I have for you today. I hope this episode helps you work towards the peaceful home that you desire and I pray that you feel seen, heard, cared for and loved. I’ll see you back here next week!