I’m almost ashamed to admit that I found an email from a reader deep, DEEP in my drafts. We’re talking MONTHS ago.

J, if you’re still reading, my deepest apologies.

I have two BIG organising challenges:

The first is my husband. He thinks I am just obsessed with living in a neat, tidy, clean and organised house. I HATE having stuff laying around everywhere, whereas he doesn’t care. It is creating real division between us. I have tried talking to him about it in the past but we just end up having an argument.

The second is my garage. I almost cannot get through the door. Not only is the ground floor of the garage FULL to the brim, but we also boarded out the roof area so we have two floors and that is full to the brim too…..where do I start when I can’t even get in the door!

I’ve blogged about organising your spouse and family before. I don’t have anything new to say so please have a click and read these posts – they’re good

How to organise your spouse

Organising your spouse and kids

As for organising the garage, I would do the following:

1. Get a couple of friends to come over for a Pizza and Organising party so that you have some help and motivation.
2. Move EVERYTHING out of the garage onto your front lawn.
3. Have clearly labelled areas – donate, trash, sell on ebay, keep, etc.
4. Then start processing a section of the garage at a time, moving things into their designated areas.
5. Be ruthless with getting rid of things. You know the rules – if you haven’t used it for a year, you probably won’t. Let it go.
6. It will look TERRIBLE in the beginning stages – it always seems worse just before you start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel

All the best to you and happy organising!

Do you and your spouse have the same organising style?

How do you deal with the differences?