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Organize like a kindergarten classroom

Organize like a kindergarten classroom

- [Interviewer] So if you've got over 30 years of experience as a professional organizer, for folks who've got some clutter in their lives, do you have any pro tips or tricks that you use over and over and over again that the rest of us, lay people, should know? - [Interviewee] Yeah, I think when it comes to organizing, I model every single physical organizing system on the model of a kindergarten classroom without exception. - No kidding. - [Interviewee] Yep. So you just picture a kindergarten classroom. It is the perfect model of organization. The room, imagine it. This is a room where you can have like 25 five-year-olds that within the first two weeks of school, no matter how messy that room gets, at the ring of a bell, everything is back in its home by five-year-olds, right? - [Interviewer] Yeah. - [Interviewee] So how is that room organized? It is organized into activity zones. There's a reading area, a dress-up…

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