Organize Your Paper Clutter Giveaway

July 6, 2009 | Filed Under Giveaway, Workshops | 167 Comments

Updated: This giveaway is now closed. The winner is #95 Tricia!

Professional Organizer, Aby Garvey of simplify 101, is offering a free seat in her fabulous upcoming Organize Your Paper Clutter workshop that begins on July 14th and ends September 1st. You’ll receive class materials in all sorts of formats (including audio), ongoing support from Aby herself as well as worksheets and projects to inspire you into action. For a sneak peek into how Aby’s workshops run, please watch this quick video. More information on this particular workshop can be found here.

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To enter, simply leave a comment on this post prior to July 9th at 9:00 pm PST, answering the following question:

What one area in your house do you find the hardest to organize and maintain?

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167 Responses to “Organize Your Paper Clutter Giveaway”

Despite every attempt I have made at conquering the incoming paper, our kitchen counters are always covered with “stuff” UGH!

My dining room becomes a collect all especially during the school year. I never now where to put anything so it usually starts out on the table or othe flat surface then it makes it’s way to a drawer in no particular order to get it out of eyesight. I’m getting better about getting rid of some of the kids cute projects from school and only keeping the ones I really love, but with three kids that still equals a lot of stuff.

Our “office/spare bedroom” is the dumping ground. I cringe every time I open the door. I struggle with just chucking it all, but know there is one important piece of paper stuck somewhere in the chaos that I will need as soon as I dump it.

Julie

I think I have the hardest time with the kitchen. It is the first room we enter, so it is the dumping ground.

Bethany

My hardest room is our kitchen. It’s the hub of our home so it always seems to have a hoard of everything all around – paperwork, dishes, toys, etc.

I’d have to say the kitchen. And not just the counters, but the whole zone…from where the kids walk in the door to the pantry to the shelves we have in it as well.

I’m going to go with kitchen since all family members contribute to The Pile. My dresser top, though, runs a close second.

The kitchen is my hardest room!!!! I always feel like there are a pile a papers in several places on the counter!

Charla @ For the Sake of Time

I find that my computer desk is the most difficult to keep organized. I have labeled shelves for items to be addressed but it is always that stack of “extras” that bother me. I am looking at it right now and what a mess!

I enjoy your blog. Thanks for sharing all of your ideas.

Charla

The dining room! Never fails.. I clean it & by the end of the day the table is piled with stuff again.

This is where I struggle the most. I would love to take your workshop!

Colleen

The area I find hardest to keep organized is my desk, which is tucked into a space in our very small upstairs landing. It’s the dumping ground for everything Mommy, including kids’ pictures, letters, things I need to file and never get around to, etc. It takes up a huge space on our landing, so it makes coming into our bedroom (which is another bad story) even more stressful. Plus, my husband often stubs his toe on the corner as he is going to the bathroom in the middle of the night!

Sara Strand

I struggle with the paper clutter. It takes over my kitchen counter (where I drop the mail when I come in along with everything else in my hands) and then I eventually move it to my desk. Walking the few feet must poop me out because then I leave it and do something else. So I end up with two areas of paper clutter. I have mastered how to make stacks of paper look nice.

I find that the hardest place for me to keep organized is our office/guest room. Everything seems to collect in there and paper is just everywhere. It seems that the cleaning and organizing never ends in that room.

The computer desk. Ugh! How do papers get there and when do they multiply? It’s the worst. I try to keep a pad and pen by the phone, which is by the computer, but it gets covered and many files, notebooks and papers get left there. HELP!

Pretty much there is something un-organized in every room…..hard to just point out one! Not that my house is a mess…..it’s just unorganized and that really frustrates me. Where to even start!??!!?

I guess I would have to say my room….that seems to be the place that things pile up ,if it doesn’t have a home. Ugh!! I need this workshop!

tThe area in the house that will be the death of me (ok, over dramatic but you get the point!!) is our kitchen island. When we moved in, I SWORE I would not allow it to become a dumping ground. Yah right!! Ugh, I need a way to keep it organized and clutter free!

No doubt – my desk and all the overflowing paperwork. I used to love doing paperwork, but with a growing family and growing responsibilities (and multiplicity of paper and items to do that it contains) life moves too quickly to keep up with it all! It is now my least favorite task to take care of in managing my home and my life! I find myself procrastinating until it all becomes even more overwhelming and/or urgent to respond to. There’s gotta be a better way!!

Definitely paper is my downfall! I end up stacking everything and then wading through all of it to find what I’m looking for. It’s overwhelming!

My office. I’ve decided that this room has been given too many functions. Computer, bills, kids bookshelves and scrapbooking all in a 10×10 space. There has to be a way to organize it all better but I can’t find it.

Elizabeth

We have a little desk in the kitchen that is always covered in paper clutter! I have tried so many times to organize it, but to no avail.

Our kitchen is definitely the dumping ground, and anywhere else we can pile stuff… and hide stuff… and then theres the bedroom…

the office- every flat surface is covered in piles and stacks of…I don’t even know what we have in there…

Definitely the kitchen/entryway. That’s where everything gets stacked…mail, random papers my husband brings home from work, grocery lists, etc. I would love to organize our paper clutter!

My bedroom! I have a large, spacious bedroom which has the potential to be a peaceful haven with a big comfy reading chair, built bookshelves, and lots of natural light. Instead, though, it’s become a catchall for my life — bills, kidstuff, magazines, coupons, and the never ending mail. I want my bedroom back! But I need help to get it back.

Paperwork. I used to have it all “figured out” then my husband got me a laptop and took over the desk and old desktop computer. I’ve been displaced and need a new “system”. I just can’t seem to figure it out on my own.

sarah

i am an organizing freak but my husband on the other hand is not. He wants to be organized but doesnt know how to start or how to keep up. He is a realtor, so paperwork is his business. He has papers all over the house, his car and his office. Please help bring peace to this paper monster.

The dining room because that’s where my fiance likes to “sort” his mail, aka leave it in big piles everywhere. I found some credit card statements from 2003 that had never been opened! So, he gets a bit behind in his filing. I would love to put my fiancee in this workshop to help him find his own system of dealing with paper.

I consider myself an organized person, and I can organize just about anything. However, paper seems to be my downfall… I can get it organized but have a hard time using my systems once they are set up. Especially difficult for me is my end table on my end of the couch. I pile things to “look at later”. I have a habit of pulling articles and pictures out of magazines, things I want to save and remember for later. I have yet to figure out the best way to organize my bits o’ paper that I accumulate.

Wow, what a blessing it would be to have help with my biggest challenge: controlling the paper in my home. Thanks for the opportunity of this great give-away!!

mub

My desk and the table in our entryway! It seems like the landing pad for EVERYTHING and I haven’t found a good way to deal with that yet.

The biggest challenge in my home is the office. All the mail, bills, and correspondence ends up on my desk and the piles keep growing. It’s such a mess and forget trying to find something quickly. So frustrating!

April

My biggest challenge is my homeschooling material that crosses over and messes up my desk office….what a mess it can be!

My kids rooms. Helping them learn to organize themselves and throw away junk without me doing it for them.

Do I have to pick just one?
My biggest challenge is probably our lack of a foyer coming in off of the garage. You step right into the kitchen from the garage and this is the entry we use most often. As a result, there are shoes everywhere. We are a family of five. I’ve tried all sorts of organizers – both in the garage and in the laundry room (which is in close proximity to the entrance off the garage). Nothing seems to work!

Ughh if you could see the top of my dishwasher and kitchen table you would know that paper is my issue… at work I maintain my paper so well but I can’t seem to do the same at home!!!!

danielle

Paper! Paper! Paper! Everywhere…especially my desk and kitchen/buffet counter. I seem to have “perfection paralysis”…i can’t figure out how to have the perfect system, so I have none at all!

The kitchen…Ugh!

Brenda Benjamin

Definately my office is the hardest for me. It’s also my scrapbook room, so there’s always a project mixed in with my bills and paperwork so I have a terrible time finding what I need when I need it.

My desk area. I have a desk in my entryway and despite my organizational goals, by the end of the week it is always buried under bills, school papers, coupons, and other paper. To make it worse, sometimes the paper makes its way to the kitchen counter too!

Help! Paper is my enemy. Any surface has paper piled on it and not in an organized way. I would love to take this workshop to help get my papers in order and organized once and for all.

By the way, I love your tips.

Deedee

My desk is a paper clutter disaster, always, and I can’t seem to conquer it

Our office! We just moved our guest room downstairs so that we finally have an office on the main level, but it ends up being a catch all for every piece of paper and every misfit item around. We could definitely use your help, Aby!

I’d have to say the worst place in our house is the front room and table. Papers, mail, bills, etc. are everywhere. I keep telling myself that I won’t use the shelf as a mail sorter but it keeps happening…

My living room — it’s where I do everything… sort through the mail, drop off my work stuff, etc.

Wendy Sice

The office/study is the hardest to organise because I end up dumping things in there to sort through later. This is the year to overcome it! I am doing pretty well with it, but I just need a course like yours to tip me over the edge into success! Wendy xx

Nicole

I have 2 places that are hard to keep organized and I LOVE organizing. The first has got to be OUR bedroom, we always throw stuff in there when people come over because no on goes in there but us. Clothes and junk pile everywhere!
The other place is our kitchen, particularly the butcher block and island. Mail and papers from the kids seem to pile up daily! Plus, my husband is like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown!

Laurel

Dining room table. We do not eat there, we just pile there. It starts out as a little corner, then the pile slides, then it procreates, then new piles are born. Soon, no wood can be seen.

Melissa

Rather than using the front door, everyone enters the house through our kitchen sliding door. And right next to that door, the kitchen countertop is a mess! Everything gets piled up there: keys, wallet, purse, cell phones with chargers, notes, mail, as well things that need to be taken outside: a tool or two, random toys, empty containers for recycling…yikes! This small space is forever piling up and I need help! Even though I try to clear it off once a day, I am so tired of it continually looking messy.

My home office for sure. I use it for both work and personal business and the desk in particular is always piled with papers and stuff.

My biggest problems area is my office. It is on the first floor and it seems like it is a catch all for everything. Not only it is an office, but it is my crafting room as well. So things just get piled up every where. I start going through it and then I just get frustrated because I haven’t filed or put away for so long. The piles are everywhere and I can’t seem to find my way out. I would love to win this give away.

bashtree

The hardest thing for me to maintain is our mail pile. I get so many things in the mail, including coupons and samples and magazines, not to mention all the statements, bills, insurance info, and my husband’s graduate school paperwork and whatnot… I haven’t been able to figure out a system that works for both of us and it is nearly driving me crazy!

My scrapbook paper. Not so much new full sheets, but the scraps and half-used paper. HELP!

The hardest thing to maintain is our computer armoire which then spills over to our entry table since a lot of the paper clutter has to do with the incoming mail.

Christa

I recently moved from the Midwest (IA) to the East Coast (MA) and am living out of a small room at my partners parents home.

The hardest thing to organize and maintain is clothing, believe it or not. We have a very small closet and a dresser that’s holding the majority of our belongings, and trying to keep the dirty and clean laundry apart – as well as keeping them separate has become and issue.

PLEASE!!!!! Pick me. I’m a early childhood full-time teacher with 3 little boys (1, 3 and 5) and a husband that works 60-70 hours a week. My paper clutter is BEYOND COMPARE!!!! I need it . . . I can’t keep my professional papers, home papers and kids papers in an organized matter.

The hardest place for me to clean and maintain is my computer desk. It always piles up with paper, coupons, bills. I try to find things on it and half of my stuff ends up on my floor! I need some good ideas for fighting the clutter and then maintaining it!

At this moment I still cannot define one area that at some point will not get cluttered with paper. The dining room table catches a lot when I attempt to sort or working on projects. But my computer desk is usually the landing strip for bills, printed handouts, messages, and a calendar I cannot see. I will not even discuss my attempts at getting my craft room organized. Ugh!

Penelope

Hands down, the “dumping ground” at the back door…backpacks, mail, keys, phones, lunch boxes, shoes….ahhhh!

Leah W

My office and study area. We have bills and school between my husband and I and both have work that requires some home space and time. We don’t have a lot of storage or filing, so everything just starts going into piles all over the room!

Dana Barbieri

I have to say there are many areas of disarray but there is one counter in the kitchen that is the “catch all”. It gets covered with everything.. mail, cell phones, tools, toys, pens. It becomes the dumping ground and I don’t really know how to keep it from being that. Help!

Eilish

Hardest place for me is anything where I have to deal with paper.

It has not always been that way but since developing MS it is something that always gets away from me – and my pack rat issues have multiplied – I am very literally afraid to get rid of paper

Kim

Well…my kitchen is the worst but then unfortunately my teeny tiny office is where I pile all of the paper clutter from the kitchen!

geezee

I found you on orgjunkie and I am thrilled. Being a rather organized person in most aspects, my paper monster has to be tamed through herculean efforts. I sooo want to be freed from whatever it is that is keeping me prisoner to this beast. I would love to win.

Courtney

The hardest area for me is the dang garage. It small but even so it seems to have issues keeping clean!! Our big project this month is to clean it out, get rid of what is in boxes that has not been used.

My kitchen counter seems to accumulate so much STUFF! My husband brings home papers, receipts, etc. and I don’t know what to do with them. I also end up keeping things on the counter to remind me to make a phone call, or do this or that. If I put it all into a nice little pile, it’s out of sight, out of mind, and I don’t ever deal with it. I need serious help! I hope I win!

Shannon Rodriguez

Our kitchen is the heart of the home and the heart of our messes! We do everything in our kitchen and it shows!

Angie (Losing It and Loving It)

The one area hardest for me to organize and maintain is the guest room. Everything ends up in there and it’s not a pretty sight. It’s no fun getting ready for guests either when there is so much on the bed, floor and the close is stuffed to the gills LOL

Can I say the entire house?

Seriously though, I would have to say my guest room..it ends up being the catch-all for everything. “oh, put it in the guestroom..I’ll figure out where it needs to be.” Then we get company and it’s mad dash to stash it somewhere else!

Colleen

I would have to say the hardest part of my house is my living room and kitchen/dining room. Everyone comes home and just dumps stuff into those two rooms and then they can’t figure out why mom is on them to pick up their stuff and put it away.

For me, it’s the laundry room. It’s off the mudroom, which has the door to the garage. So, I often bring in stuff from the car and stick it in the laundry room to get it out of the way. It’s not big enough for a mail center or anything, so it’s just a mess. The sink in there hasn’t been useable in years!

I constantly struggle with my home office! If someone doesn’t know where something goes – it lands on my desk. If I’m busy during the day, it’s the spot where I toss things to be dealt with later. As you can imagine, this builds and builds and builds. *sigh*

My computer room – between the paper clutter, things like adhesive address labels from boxes sent to me (now that I’ve learned I shouldn’t be putting them in the shredder, I have NO idea what to do with them!), random computer odds and ends (cords, CDs without cases, etc), I haven’t managed to get a good grip on how to clean things up there and KEEP them clean!

Fernanda Mendes

Our bedroom for sure because it’s easy to throw stuff in there to clean up the rest of the house but then when I go to bed at night it stresses me out. It gets so overwhelming that I don’t even know where to start.

Suzanne E

If I have to pick just one area I would have to say it is the paper. We have more paper coming into this house than any family should have.

Paper clutter is definately my biggest problem. I am taking Aby’s organizing 101 class and loving it.

The SPARE BEDROOM! It’s an easy area to stash things when I’m not sure where they can go! As a military wife it’s a challenge to find a system since we’re always moving into a different house. Each house has it’s different configurations. I feel like I just got into a good swing, and now it’s time to move again! Thanks for your post!!!

My baby girl’s room / office. It is too small for both but we have no choice at the moment. We need to figure something out – someday.:)

Paper, if it is paper it is a mess, I have tried the piles, to then have avalanches …to the sorter, then file…nada…Thanks for the chance

Dana J

Well, it’s a toss up between our kitchen counter and my side table in our bedroom. They seem to be the catch all location for things that don’t fit anywhere else in the house! So excited about this course and have fingers and toes crossed!!

I have the hardest time with my bedroom…our two bedroom apartment with 4 of us makes that the catch all room. Bills, magazines, clothes, and just clutter is most of it.

Intentionally Katie

My master closet is always a catch-all for some reason. There are the most random things in my closet from bathroom tiles to feather boas. (for my kids dress up, of course!)

Master bedroom is a disaster because I can “stash and dash” when company comes over. Plus it is attached to our laundry room so things just get dumped in that room. I would love to get it organized so my husband doesn’t have to tip toe around all the piles. Thanks!

Carol

It does feel so good to get something organized, but I never seem to conquer it all!

Heather Nicole

I feel like I should don a hazmat suit and be prepared for the worst when I enter my computer room/office. For me, this is the part of the house that is the HARDEST to organize! I am a teacher, so the room is overgrown with materials and lesson plans for my students and activities. In another corner, my sewing machine and craft activities have taken up a spot. Wedding items that have not been used are in another corner (we got married a year ago). And, bless his heart, my husband has the other 5% of the room…but even his desk has been taken over by papers from grad school, work, and receipts.

I feel like I live in a war zone…HELP!

The KITCHEN, no doubt about it! It is the most-used, most-loved and most-abused room in our home. The cabinets are organized just fine and generally stay that way. The problem is with the countertops and all of the miscellaneous stuff that finds its way there.

I would definitely say that my bedroom is the worst. I also just chuck things in and think that I’ll get to it later in the day. Nope – I just shut the doors (there are 2 entrances) when the sitter comes and pray that the kids leave it that way. But… our home office/study isn’t functional for either of those purposes. It became a collect all when we had a party 4 weeks after moving into our house, and is still that way 18 months later – despite all my best efforts.

Thanks for the much-needed chance!

My desk is the hardest to organize. I have too many papers and documents, and not enough space for them!

keeping track of bills and receipts. But a close second is the front entry with all our shoes!!

HELP! I need to start organizing. But where do I start? Is it expensive to be organized? HELP!

My Kitchen!!!! It is the center of my family’s universe and I cannot keep on top of the clutter

My home office papers have to be the worst thing to keep up with. Motivation to maintain my filing systems is just about non-existent!

My dining room because it’s where the home office is also. It’s the definite dumping ground. Too many papers & not enough places to put them!

Diane

I have so much paper clutter not too sure how to contain it other than getting rid of it all. Of course that is not possible but wish it was.

OMG…clutter! Between mail and kids papers and Lord knows what else, I make stacks in different parts of the kitchen. I want to eat at the table TOGETHER again! My kitchen is small to begin with (as is my house) so any help is welcomed! ;o)

i find the incoming paper so hard to organize! it could be mail, bills, my son’s notes from school, his artwork. my craft space comes in a close second! then there’s the toy room…some days i feel like i’m always picking up stuff!

maybe because we also have a very inquisitive 2 year old?

i’d love to join this workshop!

My kitchen. Ugh!

My paperwork ’system’ is way overdue for a bit (OK a lot) of work … I’d love to learn some tricks for getting it all in order and even more so for keeping it in order! Thanks for the chance to win a place in the workshop Aby!

Sorry I forgot to say the most important thing … the paper mess accumulates all over my computer desk area making it the dumping ground and hardest part of my house to organize and maintain!

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Carla

I find it hard to organize our front room. It contains a computer, piano, and all our homeschooling books as well as an oversized chair. We end up storing all our paperwork in boxes that are currently overflowing and need to be filed. The computer desk is usually also overrun with papers. It is the first thing people see when they walk in the door! Ugh!

101

Tiffany Holgate

I love organizing and discovering new ways to do so! I’d love to be able to take this course! Thanks!

102

purple moose

ALL of them! Paper comes in and multiplies on every flat surface in my house.

103

Cinnamon

I find that my home school books, papers, art get so messy that I just want to wipe my desk clean or the shelf it’s sitting on. I’d love to be more organized in this area.

~Cinnamon

104

Claudia

My computer desk is by far the hardest for me to keep organized. I would LOVE a chance to win a spot for this workshop. Thank you!!

105

Beth

Our bedroom becomes the dumping ground for everything that doesn’t have a home. And my paperwork is scattered in various places throughout my home. I can never find ANYTHING when I need it!

106

My kitchen counters are out of control–I need help.

107

Tracy Hoth

My two daughters share a room and it is THE hardest to keep organized! They are constantly bringing things in and keeping “special” goodies around. The stuffed animals that they love keep multiplying. Their clothes are a whole issue in themselves!! But, about every two weeks, we go through things and they learn the spectacular feeling of transformation!

108

By far, the hardest for me to organize is my paper clutter. This class would be SO helpful for me. My biggest problem is that the paper clutter has made its way to every room of my house (kitchen, office, bedrooms, livingroom, even the basement). I feel like I am being suffocated by it! My other problem is my husband’s messiness. If I can conquer my paper problem, I think I will be better able to manage my husband!!!! I’ve got my fingers crossed that I win this class!

109

I have a real struggle with my kitchen counters and kitchen table. Every flat area is covered with stuff. I have to literally move piles in order to have counter space to prepare dinner. Granted, my piles of papers are organized (somewhat), but it is such a waste of time every time I have to move stuff. Usually what I do is take all the piles and move them to my dining room table (which we don’t use because it’s totally buried) to deal with later (ha!), but then the whole ordeal starts all over again. I Need HELP!

110

My kitchen counter and office area. The papers just keep piling up.

111

My most difficult area are my children’s room. There are toys everywhere and i just don’t know where to begin or how to make it easy for the kids to keep up on.

112

My biggest problem with organizing is papers, magazines and books in the livingroom. I tried putting things in boxes, but now I have so many I don’t know when I will have time to go thru them.

113

My biggest problem is the schoolroom. Papers, books, projects, games, computer stuff…they just seem to take over and never go back where they belong.

114

sem

Despite my best efforts, still need help with this!!!!

115

Jerri

My biggest problem is papers! And making myself file!

116

My hardest thing is not really a room, but what to do with all of my kids artwork, homework, and papers from school. They seem to take up every room in the house. I struggle with what to throw away, and what to keep.

117

Rosa B

For me, I think it’s papers! They accumulate so quickly!

118

Oh wow to be organized–home, office, car, kids school work, closets….where to start where to start?

119

Lisa

I really need this class – my backlog of paper stuff is really awful. When I moved a year ago I just packed my bags of backlog into a box. I didn’t unpack the box and now I have new bags of paper…

120

Definitely my home office/scrapbook room. I haven’t actually filed in four years… I just pile stuff in the file drawer! How lame is that?

Sandy P

121

Without a doubt, it is the attempt at a “command center” that is failing miserably. I can’t tell whether it’s a system my husband just isn’t interested or willing to use, or if it’s in the wrong place in the house, or if we are simply not spending enough time taming the piles of papers that inevitably get shoved into one of the FOUR receptacles I now have bought. Whatever the case, it is simply NOT working. help!

122

That would have to be my office/sewing room. I put off sewing because I don’t want to have to find what I need. And the office – WOW What I need is in a drawer – somewhere!! I need you. The rest of my house is pretty organized but my office is a mess! Thanks

123

Oh so many, but the kitchen is the hardest. At least in the other rooms we have a system, even if we don’t always follow it. But the kitchen just gets overwhelmed with so much paper…and kids art projects…and just stuff.

124

My kitchen counters and garage – both because they are ‘dumping grounds’ for things both in and out!

125

I find it hard to keep the counter tops in the kitchen organize and clear of clutter. It seems no matter how many times I clear it, it is messy in no time.

126

Hope Cantrall

The cabinet by my dining room table. It is a HOT SPOT in my house. Every day, I have to clear it off again. It’s a dumping ground for incoming papers or anything that is on the dining room table at dinner time. I am trying like crazy to keep it cleared off but it’s very difficult!

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Our Kitchen…we are learning new methods of saving by doing our cooking and not eating out, so we have a lot more to keep track of.

128

I am in the midst of a move, so at the moment, my entire house is a disaster area.

At any other time, though, my desk would definitely be the culprit suffering from the greatest amounts of clutter. I work, play, eat, and sleep at my desk. Plus in the new house, my desk will be moving into my bedroom instead of an office, which means I will be forced to look at or deal with the clutter instead of just closing the door and walking away.

/hopes luck is on my side.

129

My Desk,in the family room, every thing gets put there. it is always a mess,Papers, toys tools,clothes whatever just put it on my desk,I’ll put it away in a while . yea right!!

130

My office! Lots of papers, bills, supplies, stuff… Can’t seem to keep it together.

131

I hate to admit it, but it’s my home office. EVERYTHING ends up in there! I clean my desk off by putting or shoving things in drawers to be looked at later, then the next day rolls around and MORE stuff accumulates. I know I’m not unique in this, lol! One of these days my home office WILL be totally organized, I’m just not sure WHICH century that will be! : )

132

i desperately need help with the paper clutter in my house, it gets me totally stressed out and we can never find anything. just the other day we were looking for a copy of our marriage license that we needed to show for some official documentation, and couldn’t find it! had to order a new one…and then yesterday it turned up in a stack. yikes. please choose me

133

My area of shame is my scrapbooking table – I have everything out so that I can see what I have, but its so terribly cluttered, it looks terrible. I bought the little boxes to keep stuff in them, but still cluttered HELP! Love your ideas.

134

Any horizontal surface in my bedroom is covered with paper, books, glasses, deodorant, clothes to be hung up, etc. There is currently a stack of the “really important things I want to keep forever” that I haven’t found a place for. If I don’t do it quick, I think they will be in their place forever on my desk.

135

The area in the kitchen behind the door. I bought a unit last year to put our “book bags” in but they get dumped in a pile on top of everything else that’s there, including a box of stuff used at my daughter’s birthday party, 2 months ago!

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Paper – it piles up on the dining table then gets dumped in the office to sort. Have all available space piled with papers and other things that have no home. Would love a system to work with as I’m sure I don’t need to keep 75% of what comes in but I never know when I might need it.

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Lindsay

The hardest place for me, is the kitchen. It seems like I am constantly picking up after someone, they come through there like a herd of elephants thinking ‘what mischief can we create in here today?’ and it gives me a headache when i wake up in the morning and see a huge mess!

138

Our living room is hard for me to keep neat. We truly live in that room and we just set things down where there’s a semi-flat spot and there they stay until it gets on my nerves. Then it’s overwhelming, so I really need something to help me get started and keep after it little by little. I’d love to win a seat in the seminar. Thanks!

139

Kerri

My homeschool room. It is a wreck!!

140

I so need to get my papers for medical and S.S.organized,it always seems to get the best of me.

141

Computer desk, kids papers/bedrooms. Thanks for a chance to win.

142

School papers, mail, coupons, papers I need/want to read, magazines, photos – PAPER is consuming me and my house! They start on the kitchen counter. When that pile gets too big to manage (or when people are coming over), I usually move it to a spare chair in the dining room (does anyone really use their dinin room for dining?). When all of those chairs are full, I usually move the piles upstairs to a desk in our master bedroom or to one of those attractive wood crates or baskets (not sure they are still considered attractive once they are overflowing with stuff). You’ll even find a few of these piles under the bed covered in dust. The paper shuffle goes on, and on, and on. Help me tame this monster! It is going to eat me alive if it doesn’t claim one of the kids first.

143

Only one area????
Hmm… the office.

144

The hardest room to maintain & organize is my storage closet. I use it to store craft supplies, sewing supplies, photos, sleeping bags, seasonal decorations. I have tried many times, but it continues to be a “dumping ground.”

145

I think paper breeds at our house! Besides, what better way to celebrate my birthday (14th) by taking that first step! Thanks!

146

Julie Griffith

Our kitchen has a desk. Great! It’s the perfect place for command central! Unfortunately, I am failing as commander of this central “dumping ground!” HELP! I so need this workshop!
Julie/Jewels

147

Our den – always under piles of paper, books and magazines.

148

Kitchen counter penninsula is a catch-all for everything and everyone’s stuff. Help!

149

Kitchen counters, definitely. And my bedroom floor. And the dining room table. And the office.

150

The pile that comes from the mail every day which accumulates on my kitchen counter. I’ve tried to organize it and it just isn’t working.

151

LouAnn

The kitchen counter! Everything gets dumped there. On days when I MAKE time, I try to organize it and move everything to its proper place… but most days I just shove it to a new pile on the small counter by the phone. It is a mess!

152

Our dining room table becomes a catch all for paper clutter. Things that need to filed in the office, bills to be paid, things to handle later, etc. We have just enough clean space to eat at. When we have company, we have to pick up all the clutter and shift it onto the bed in the spare room. And yep, you guessed it, when the company is gone, the clutter comes right back onto the table.

153

Angela

Our school/craft room/office … I’m all about being organized, but this room gives me fits and I would love for it to have design as well as function!!!!

154

My biggest problems are my living room & kitchen. They are the most used rooms in the house, and I have a really bad habit of laying the mail down and never going through it except to pick out the bills. With a new baby at home, it’s just gotten worse…now she has daycare papers that just add to everything else!!!

155

Omaha Mama

The kitchen counter. The computer desk. The dining room. Paper everywhere! And I am horrible and managing it…

156

Summer Galarpe

I would have to say our computer desk and bookshelf “area”. Numerous items including the mail, a daily status sheet from baby’s daycare, school paperwork, order slips and receipts from my home business, shopping receipts, etc. You name it, it’s there. I REALLY hope I win!! Ü

157

Definitely the kitchen counter just inside the back door…it is a paper clutter magnet!

158

I have a moving target for organization! Every time my kitchen counter or dresser gets piled too high, I just move the piles to a new “out-of-the-way” place. I think that piles of paper are my biggest problem: papers from home, school, work, and church are threatening to take over… Please help!

159

Amy Buchanan

Just one area?

I’d guess that would be my home office. Clutter tends to pile up there, and my son also makes messes when I’m trying to work.

There’s just too much stuff in there.

amyjbuchanan@gmail.com

160

The kitchen counter-our “drop spot” for nearly everything. Most frequently found: mail, toys, computer cords, bills, cups, diaper bag contents, etc.

161

Erin

Sounds amazing!! I think the hardest place to keep organized is our home office. My husband is a realtor, so he works out of the house mainly. We have a huge built in desk, that is always cluttered! I have tried to organize, but it is hard!

162

I would have to say……the garage. It is a catch-all for all things that I don’t know what to do with in the house. My plan is to call Goodwill and have them come and take the stuff that I have not used in one year.

163

Like an octopus, our horrifying home office is sending out papery tentacles to take over the rest of the house. Help us, please! ‘gurgle gurgle’

164

I think the kitchen is the hardest for me because I try to keep my to-do basket there and that never seems to stay organized.

165

Kitchen counter it seems to be the ‘drop n go’ zone!!! uh it drives me INSANE!!! and must be cleaned at LEAST 3xs a day!

166

I’m desperate for help with our overwhelming paper piles. It’s affecting our finances and our marriage.
I’d deeply appreciate winning this spot in your workshop …..

167

I so need this workshop. I have been trying, without much success, to sort through and organzie/toss mementoes, and other papers that clutter my space. I also am a hopeless scrapbooker and cardmaker. The materials I have collected are ready to overwhelm me at any moment. Help!

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What one area in your house do you find the hardest to organize and maintain?

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