Understand Your ‘Clutterbug’ Style Before Organising Your Home [Video]

Before you clean your home, you should have to have some kind of plan. Before you have a plan, though, you should know what kind of organiser you are. Some decluttering methodologies help make plans that suits a particular space, but others, like Cassandra Aarssen’s “Clutterbug” philosophy, help with a better sense of who you are as a cleaner and organiser. 

Aarssen is a professional organiser and has lots of experience helping the clutter prone to get their lives in order. She co-authored Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day with another big name in the space, Peter Walsh, and she’s broken down her personal system into four organizing styles that are meant to help figure out how you organise, so you can work with your own style instead of against it. 

Overall, Aarssen advocates for determining your organising style by identifying whether you’re a butterfly, cricket, ladybug, or bee. Once you’ve done that, you’re meant to set …