Organization - Clutter Bug Styles (Hot Mess House)

‘You’re not disorganized—you’re just not organizing for your unique style..

..take back control of your home and your life. It’s so important that we let go of the past, so that we have room for the future. 

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Ladybugs like their surfaces clean and clutter-free, but that doesn’t mean they are minimalists — they just shove clutter into closets and drawers to maintain the illusion of an organized area. 

Ladybugs, who focus their energy on keeping surfaces immaculately clean. To keep up an impeccable appearance, they tend to stash items into drawers, cupboards, or storage boxes, to forget about them until needed. 

Recommended: easy-to-use macro-organizing systems for ladybugs, including baskets, drawer organizers, and binders to help corral the stuff even when it’s hidden away. macro-organizing system allows them to take care of the less visible parts of their home as well. Ladybugs are bound to find filing cabinets, containers with lids, and the like particularly worthwhile. Assigning different zones inside the home can help too. Ladybugs can greatly benefit from devising a system that makes clear which objects belong where. 

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Crickets tend to pay more attention to the areas that are immediately visible. Crickets are more “traditionally” organized and are systematic in their approach to stuff. What they struggle with is setting up organization systems. More likely to procrastinate tidying up, they have a propensity to spend too much time planning what they want their home to look like — without putting in the required effort to achieve such goals. They like to make piles of belongings, which still results in clutter since those piles add up... “perfection can be paralyzing.”

Recommended: What Crickets benefit from the best is dividing larger-scale chores into smaller ones. Instead of picking one day to clean the whole house, they might consider allocating different time frames to less time-consuming, easily achievable tasks instead. They need to learn to let go of their perfectionist mindset of creating the perfect organizing system and become more macro-organized rather than micro-organized. Stackable storage solutions, open baskets, and labelers are just some of the items Crickets will find useful. 

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Butterflies insist on seeing all their stuff at once because they’re afraid they’ll forget about it otherwise. Butterflies enjoy purchasing new items without ever taking the time and effort to figure out how to put them away. You are a butterfly if your drawers and closets are empty but you have piles of stuff all over the place. Most children begin as Butterflies.

Recommended: In addition to a finely tuned organizational system, what Butterflies need is constant reminders urging them to discard what they no longer use. Butterflies should invest in clear bins with labels  and open shelving systems for butterflies so they retain their visual sense of control. Setting aside enough time to do a tidy-up each week can be useful too, as well as enlisting a friend to help with decluttering since this organizing type often forms strong emotional attachments to inanimate objects and may need a impartial perspective to ask "do you use it? and "does it spark joy?"

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Bees are similar to butterflies because they like to see everything they have out in the open, but often become overwhelmed by their own organizational goals. They also like keeping everything at arm’s reach while working on a project, which can lead to a giant mess in a hurry.

Bees tend to be perfectionists with a rare penchant to leave knick-knacks around the house. Jumping from one project to another, they are more likely to postpone cleaning until they have the time to give every room a big tidy. They are less inclined to keep on top of day-to-day chores. 

Often small business owners, home bakers, exercise aficionados, and scrap-bookers can all fall into this category. What most Bees have in common is their unusual ability to accumulate larger supplies of different materials, tools, or kits. 

Recommended: limiting projects for bees and letting go of perfection when it comes to organization. Creating a decent organization system is much better than holding out hope for the perfect one. Bees also need to-do lists to cross things off and must learn to let things go, especially when they haven’t used them in a year or more.