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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have kids, so I'm just fighting my own mess, but there's a lot of it!  One thing that has helped me tremendously is realizing what is not realistic.  For example, I always kick off my shoes when I come in the house -- I'm not going to take them to a shoe rack in my upstairs bedroom right away.  I'm just not.  So I put a basket near the front door where I can toss my shoes.  (no room for a rack there)

Same thing with mail.  Ideally, I would take all mail to my office and open/deal with it there.  I never do this; I just open it in my kitchen.  So I set up a small filing system in the kitchen for mail.

My house isn't a perfect showplace, but finding fixes for my reality, instead of aspiring to a system I will never do, has helped me a lot.[/quote]
I agree with this - put the storage system where the stuff naturally ends up.  Don't force yourself to fight your instincts every day and try to bring the stuff (e.g. the shoes) to the inconvenient storage.[/quote]

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