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Do you work hard to get your home organized, but find that none of your efforts seem to pay off? It could be that you are serious about getting organized, but you are sabotaging your own success through poor habits. In Part 1, I talked about several common culprits: hoarding papers, disorganized desktops, and impulse buying and bargain hunting. All of these habits can create clutter faster than you can possibly clear it away, no matter how dedicated you may be. Here are even more bad home organizing habits you need to break.

1. Coffee table clutter
Remember when your living room table used to be spotless? Coffee table clutter accumulates sneakily. First it’s a magazine, then it’s a new set of remotes, then it is your three children’s handheld consoles … and so on.

Get coffee table clutter under control by making the decision today that you will never leave anything lying around on it. You tell yourself, “Oh, I will put this away in ten minutes,” and then ten minutes becomes a month. If you get a magazine to read, put it back immediately when you are done with it. Have a basket set up for your remotes.

2. Clutter in the car
Even if you are really into home organizing, the car is an easy spot to forget. You let trash pile up in there because you do not really think about it. But that is exactly why it is good to come up with a system for keeping your car clean. Keep a bag under the seat for trash, and keep the trash can in your garage near the car door. It is also smart to stow some plastic organizing bins in back. You can use storage totes for cars for sports equipment, toys, hiking and camping gear, emergency supplies, and more. You can even use them to keep your groceries from spilling.

3. Pileup in the laundry room
Do you have piles of dirty clothes in your corners? What about down in your laundry room? This is a bad habit which can quickly make any room into a complete mess. Resolve to throw your dirty clothes directly in the hamper, and try not to actually do that until they are really dirty. Add some plastic containers for laundry to your laundry room to help you sort your clothes. This will make it faster and easier to get your laundry done. When it is, pull the clothes out of the plastic laundry baskets and get them back in your closet right away.

It can be a challenge to break bad habits, but until you do, they will continue to stand in the way of getting organized. There is no point putting all kinds of time and effort into getting organized if you are just going to undo it all with bad habits which generate ongoing clutter. Make the decision here and now to erase those bad habits. If all you do is that, you should find an improvement in your home organization overnight!