Struggle Care

134: Clutterbug: Your Organizing Style with Cas

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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:

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