organization

If one asks, “what is organization?” another might answer: “when every item has a designated space”, but that is not the definition Clea and Joanna would say. 

I have recently started watching a new show on Netflix called The Home Edit. It is about two childhood friends who have opened a business in which they go to people’s houses and organize different parts that need to be organized, decluttered, and decorated in a new way. 

As an organizing freak myself, there are many things that inspired me to change the way I organize, but there were also things they did which I did not like. 

 

In every episode the childhood friends, Clea and Joanna go to two different homes to organize various rooms, such as pantries, bedrooms, closets, fridges, garages and more. In the show, the two partners followed a four step system that they have designed; Edit, categorize and label, containment, organize by how the room is used. The Home Edit is a company that is represented by a rainbow theme. Therefore, when organizing books, snacks, clothes and so on, they will always be color coded by the rainbow colors. This was something I really enjoyed in their organizational skills, especially for kids, because it does make the room more beautiful and “easy” to look at and find. 

 

Something that I found less useful was the containment stage. During this stage I do agree that things need to go in boxes and not float on a shelf because “floating objects” are what cause clutter, but when Clea and Joanna constantly take food and art supplies out of their packaging and put them in clear containers, I truly think that it is unnecessary and a waste of time. I would not want to come home and take out all of the granola bars out of the box just to put it in a different box where it might not all fit (because when they organize they fit everything perfectly without leaving extra room “to grow”).

 

Overall, I did enjoy watching the show and finding new ways to organize. Although I did find myself skipping over a lot of the talking and parts that did not entertain me, every person is different and might like to see what they chatter about in between every project.