Nicole Jensen explains why decluttering comes before organizing. You have to decide what to keep and what to let go before you can organize anything, and skipping this step wastes time arranging things you don't actually need.
I get asked a lot, what's the difference between decluttering and organizing? And think of it this way. Decluttering is part of organizing, and it is by far the most important step. Decluttering is where you look at all your belongings and you decide what you keep and what you let go of. For example, if you have four can openers, do you really need four can openers? Or can you just get by with one? Or maybe two if you wanted to really argue that point? Or if you're looking through your shoes and you have five pairs of flip flops, three of them are black, can you just keep one and then keep the other colors? If you wanted to keep multiple pairs, but. But you're going through and you're asking yourself the hard questions. Do I need it? Do I use it? Do I love it? Or can I let it go? And the reason why this part of the process is so important is that when you move on through the process of organizing, when you get to the part of where you're buying bins and baskets and putting things away and allocating storage, you're only storing things that you really need, you really want, and you love, you've let go of all the excess, and trust me, you will thank yourself for it.
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