Especially if you have a lot of crafting supplies.

I’m struggling with a lot of fabric, yarn, and various random wooden things I paint. I have a single bedroom apartment and there’s so much stuff that some of it is on the floor.

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    2 days ago

    Everything needs to have a place: box, drawer, hook, jar, bin, anything. If it doesn’t have a place, it’s just going to end up randomly anywhere and everywhere.

    You need to decide a fixed place for everything. There needs to be a fixed place for yarns, maybe multiple places for different types of yarn. There should be a specific location for fabrics. If there’s not enough floor space, start using the walls. Even the ceiling is a place where you can attach hooks, loops and whatnot.

    You just need to make a hundred little decisions while organizing everything, but once that’s done you can skip the burdensome decisions in the future and simply follow the system you built earlier. Once there’s a system, don’t deviate from it, and that requires some discipline. If following it becomes a routine, you no longer have to spend much mental energy in sustaining it.

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        Screw some shelves on the walls and hooks in the ceiling. There’s so much wasted space out there. Things don’t have to touch the floor, you know.

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          “there’s always room on the z axis” It always surprises me how much more I can store when I start stacking things. Can make retrieval more difficult, but that’s always a trade off