This is a Plan?

Start with one room. Gather EVERYTHING that is out of place – for example, on the floor, piled on a flat surface, and piled on chairs.

If it’s clothing that you know you will wear in the next two weeks, the put it in a basket in your closet for now.

For everything else: put it ALL in boxes. (Small items like jewelry should be placed in smaller containers, not just thrown into a large box. Use common sense.) Take those boxes and get them out of your sight! Use any storage area that you can use – just get that stuff out of your living space at all costs. If you should happen to need any of that stuff, all you have to do is go through the boxes. “It’s there somewhere.” It won’t grow legs and walk away. Unless your stash is as big as the Library of Congress, you will find anything you really need.

Now reclaim your living space and make it look good again. It won’t be difficult now that the clutter is out of your way!
No time to go through that clutter? Don’t want the hassle? Guess what – you do not have to do that if you really don’t want to. No problem! I’m here to tell you that you’ll get decluttered eventually anyway. All you have to do is one simple thing. LABEL those boxes with the DATE and the contents. If you’re pressed for time, just write the DATE only. Let that clutter sit there until you realize that you do not need it. This may take years – that’s why it’s good that the clutter is not spending those YEARS depressing you right under your nose! Eventually, you’ll pry open those boxes. Eventually, you’ll be ready to part with the dregs of your “stuff” at last. You’ll be free of volumes of junk, at last. In the meantime, you have not allowed clutter to get in the way of your life. You are in control of your belongings. Rejoice – you have managed to become clutter free, one way or another. You have earned your way out of the mess. Congratulations! hahahaha

Can the great unwashed mimic Peter Walsh

As a lifelong ADD emblematic pile builder I invited a group of teens from a church summer camp for a mision trip taking cues from the show "Clean Sweep' for a real life reorganization. Any thoughts out there as they set my family's life on the lawn?