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Today, I am teaming up with some of my best organizing blogging buddies to share with you all of our favorite household organizing helpers . We've all gathered quite a few simple and creative ideas for you! Let's get started with the items that I find most helpful in my own home. BASKETS   They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and make the top of my list for their versatility and penchant for containing and hiding ANYTHING. We keep our reading material contained in the living room  in large wire mesh baskets under our coffee table. See the full post HERE . This is in our All-in-One office/theater/library/guest room. Inside the  baskets are all manner of electronics and their cords, extra CD cases, and DVDs. In my pantry, the large baskets up top hold extra Kleenex, to-go food storage containers, and paper towels. The smaller ones hold pasta, sweets (cavities), tea, dried fruits and nuts, etc... easy to grab and take into the kitchen. This is a medium magazine baske...

Unfortunately, this post is not going to give you instructions on how to organize anything. Rather, I hope to encourage and empower you to think differently about your space. Your largest storage box. Your home. But this post will be simply put, and get you on the way to being organized. Through the years, I have observed that as  I (and others I have taught),  have learned to let go of clutter,  we have all found ourselves becoming organized. After 15 years of professionally "organizing" families, offices, churches, storage units, etc.,  I have learned this phenomenal truth: Organization is (simply) a by-product of simplifying. Stuff that is unused, yet kept, requires space and management. And time. Lots  of time. Time moving it around.  Time cleaning it.  Time working around it.  More time moving it around. Do I even need to mention the money wasted on buying "organizers"  to store this unneeded stuff? If you think you're disorganized, yo...