An organized home feels like a haven It does not have to be completely feng shui ala Marie Kondo. It should not have clutter on every surface. Somewhere between a hoarder's heaven and detached feng shui perfection is a lived-in yet organized place. We spend most of our non-work hours in our home, so making it a place we enjoy being is important. If you look at the condition of things in your house and feel overwhelmed, it can be difficult to motivate yourself to change things. My family has lived in our home for more than 15 years. Without making a conscious choice to do so, we can accumulate a lot of items. The key to bringing sanity to a cluttered home is taking organization one area, one step, at a time. I have found many free helps for this at flylady.net. For this installment of my blog, let's begin with what flylady calls "hot spots". These are those places we tend to drop items "for the moment" as we enter and leave the house and as we go about rou...