What’s your organizing style? Are you a bee, ladybug, cricket, or butterfly? Find out in today’s episode as professional organizer, Cassandra Aarssen explains how to tidy and organize according to your natural organizational style. Cas is a self-proclaimed “recovering super slob” on a mission to help other families who struggle with disorganization and clutter. Join us!

Show Highlights:

Cas’s journey to Chief Clutterbug status
Four organizational types, according to how you naturally sort and store your everyday things:
Butterfly: You are a visual person who wants simple, quick, and easy organizational systems.
Bee: You love visual and organizational abundance and are meticulous and detail-oriented, preferring to see your everyday items instead of hiding them away.
Cricket: You love visual simplicity and organizational abundance, wanting to hide items out of sight, but you are detail-oriented and methodical.
Ladybug: You love visual and organizational simplicity and prefer all your items hidden out of view with fast, easy solutions.
Find your balance between wanting to put things away easily and wanting to find things easily. (You can’t have it both ways!)
Parenting challenges in helping your kids learn to organize
Cas’s best organizing advice for butterflies: Use plastic bins, baskets, buckets, and labels.
Consider your “valuable real estate” from waist to eye level.
Establish a “drop zone” in your home.
Best tips from Cas and KC for keeping and organizing all the kids’ papers and artwork
Cas’s best organizing advice for bees: Use clear, stacking bins and pegboards for meticulous organization. (Fun fact: Most hoarders are actually bees!)
Cas’s best organizing advice for crickets: Use lots of styles for traditional organization.
Cas’s best organizing advice for ladybugs: Use drawer dividers, bins, and baskets (with no lids).

Resources and Links:

Connect with Cas: Website (and Resources)

Preorder my new book: Struggle Care Website, Amazon, and Bookshop

Connect with KC: Website, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook

Get KC’s book, How to Keep House While Drowning

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