How To Handle Things That Need To Be Stored And Organized

How To Handle Things That Need To Be Stored And Organized

How To Handle Things That Need To Be Stored And Organized

Mary Astadourian (Professional Organizer) gives expert video advice on: How do I handle things that need to be stored?

How do I handle things that need to be stored?

I think that when I tell people, "Let's store this." I've now determined that this is something they're not going to get rid of. It, for whatever the reason is. It either has a purpose for them, or it means something to them, but they don't use it in their daily life, so, let's store it. And now we need to think about how we're going to store it. We want to put it in a proper container so that we can store it. We want to keep a list of what we, what items we're storing. This is key because, as I said before, people forget what they have in storage. So, you should write a little list. You know, you've got four boxes that have old tax returns, you've got old photographs from your childhood, you've got your mother's memorabilia from her childhood, whatever it is. Just keep an ongoing list, it doesn't have to be fancy or very elaborate. It just needs to give you an idea of what's there because, otherwise, storage just becomes this big word for like something that, "Oh, I don't know what's in there." So if you know what's in there, then you'll know if you need it, you know where it is, and if you don't, you just know that it's there, it's safe, it's being kept in a cool, dry spot which is generally preferred and you can access it if you need to.