By Jackie Leffner
As we have just entered the new year of 2025, we want to help inspire you to make turning each of your rooms into the best organized space. Maybe you start with laundry room organization and then move to the kitchen. Maybe you start with your garage and then move to your bedroom. There is no “right” place to start, but we wanted to provide you with some resources that will help you on your organizing journey.
Of course, at Meat and Potatoes Organizing, our professional organizers are also here to help! During our complimentary consultation we dream with you to determine the best plan of attack to turn your home into a functional, beautiful, organized space.
Here are some books our professional organizers have read to help them become the experts they are!
- The Home Edit Life: The No-Guilt Guide to Owning What You Want and Organizing Everything by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin
**Really, ALL the Home Edit Books are amazing if you have not checked them out – would highly recommend 😊
- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organization by Marie Kondo
- Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day by Cassandra Aarssen
- 365 Days of Decluttering and Organizing Your Home by Jamie Stewart
- Declutter: How to Organize your Life, Maximize your Productivity, and Enjoy a Clutter-Free Life (Life Simplified) by Jennifer S. Edwards
- One Year to an Organized Life: From Your Closets to Your Finances, the Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Completely Organized for Good by Regina Leeds
- The Complete Book of Home Organization: 200+ Tips and Projects by Toni Hammersley
- Simply Clean: The Proven Method for Keeping Your Home Organized, Clean, and Beautiful in Just 10 Minutes a Day by Becky Rapinchuk
Now, are we recommending that you add all of these to your cart and start attacking your home? No. But these can serve as resources if there is a particular one that speaks to you. We have implemented small things from all these books, and more, to help our team become experts in organizing spaces.
So, what do we recommend?
We recommend that you choose one of these books – notice how most of them are helping you clean and declutter with small steps every day. That is because having an organized life means maintaining organized spaces. You cannot just organize your kitchen once – you need to put a system in place to maintain that organization and cleanliness. If you do not follow that system, you will just need to revisit it again in a few months because it will turn back into chaos!
If you are looking to take a small step towards becoming more organized, one of the books above is a great first step. Read one like The Home Edit or The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up to help you get into the right mindset. Then, follow one like Simply Clean: The Proven Method for Keeping Your Home Organized, Clean, and Beautiful in Just 10 Minutes a Day to help give you daily guidance on what you can be doing to create organized spaces in your home. Don’t really like to read? Reach out to schedule your complimentary consultation with one of our professional organizers today! We will bring the expertise from all these books, and more, and help you create systems in your house that are easy to maintain! Meat and Potatoes can help you turn your dream into a reality! We would love to help spark joy in your everyday life by transforming your home into functional, beautiful, organized spaces, one area at a time.
