I can organise everyone else's house but not my own!

It's funny, I spend my days organising other peoples lives to make things easier for them, but like the chef that never cooks or the mechanic with the broken car, my house is quite disorganised a lot of the time.

I spent a couple of hours with a new client last month and she wanted to sort out her office and get rid of all the clutter. I took a look at it all and told her that she needed more storage and to get all the paperwork and mess off her desk and into some sort of order. This was all fine and we put together a plan of what needed to happen.

Then I came home and sat down at my desk and realised that I am not practising what I am preaching. My desk had at least 5 different piles of paper, 2 overflowing in trays, 6 reference books and countless random bits of paper, business cards and general rubbish, plus a computer somewhere under all that. So I decided it was time to do something about sorting all of this out. But.... if you don't have the correct tools, nothing is going to change. All of this 'stuff' was sitting on my desk because I had no storage. My filing cabinet is good for filing things, but not for storing stationery or magazines or reference books. I can't make piles on the floor because my office also doubles as the toy room and my 4 and 2 year olds would decide that mummy's papers were good for drawing on or throwing. The drawers in my desk we already overflowing, so that wasn't an option.

I battled with it trying to make it work (even though I knew I was fighting a losing battle) until yesterday when I went out and bought a cupboard with a bookcase on top that will hold all the bits and pieces I am currently storing on my desk. It'll be great and I'm really excited about it.

Now I just have to work out how to attach it to the wall so Mr 2 doesn't pull it over on himself when he tries to climb it :)