On average Americans lose one (1) hour a day searching for misplaced objects.
That’s not to mention
a) the loss in money, re-purchasing the same items over and over again, and
b) the emotional and mental costs of stress, guilt, shame, embarrassment and self-loathing or blame.
Count it up! This is “found time”, and can certainly be used for better things… like a vacation, reading, your hobby, your children, friends, family… you name it!
I have many stories shared with me on an ongoing basis about this frustration as well as my hands-on personal examples from organizing jobs in homes and offices. (If you think any of these are you… you might be correct… or not!)
Here are just a very few of the items I’ve decluttered and sorted at jobs over 9 years of organizing. Items lost and misplaced that added up to hours of wasted time, energy and money. Each line item from a different client/job:
- 10 bottles of prescription medication
- 8 uncashed checks for $1,500 and $600.00 cash
- $400.00 in gift cards unsent from the previous Christmas
- $600.00 in gift cards and gift certificates, now expired
- 27 pair of reading glasses, 10 reading glass cases
- 4 TV remotes
- 4 garage remotes
- 9 valid credit cards
- 3 valid passports
- 6 needed computer programs
- Four-year old wedding present wrapped, never sent
- 2 check books
- 26 cans of soup, past expiration date
- 32 gallon cans of freeze dried food and protein powder
- Approximately 80 items of bulk purchases: mustard, tomato sauce, toothpaste, deodorant, lotion, razors, soy sauce
- 25 candles
- 3 ski passes
- 8 gold and silver chains/jewelry
Get organized and take a GREAT vacation with your time and energy saved. Send me a post card!!
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