Martha Stewart's Organizing - The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines

The ultimate guide to getting your life in order—with hundreds of practical and empowering ideas, projects, and tips for home organization—from America’s most trusted lifestyle authority.

Trust Martha to help you master all things organizing—sorting, purging, tidying, and simplifying your life—with smart solutions and inspiration.

Here, she offers her best guidance, methods, and DIY projects for organizing in and around your home. Topics include room-by-room strategies (how to sort office paperwork, when to purge the garage or attic), seasonal advice (when to swap out bedding and clothing, how to put away holiday decorations), and day-by-day or week-by-week plans for projects such as de-cluttering, house cleaning, creating a filing system, mastering closet organization, and more.

Martha’s indispensable expertise walks you through goal-setting, principles of organizing, useful supplies, and creating systems for ongoing success. A look into Martha’s own personal calendars offers a template for scheduling essential tasks. Last, this complete decluttering guide includes plenty of strategies, how-tos, timelines, and checklists will help you stay organized all year long.

This guide offers actionable, room-by-room strategies to get your entire home in order:

Room-by-Room Organization: Tackle every space from the office to the garage with specific checklists and timelines for sorting, purging, and tidying. Seasonal Strategies: Learn the best time to swap out clothing and bedding, and how to properly put away holiday decorations to keep your home fresh. DIY Organizing Projects: Create custom, clever solutions with simple do-it-yourself projects for everything from filing systems to pantry shelves. Lasting Systems and Schedules: Implement Martha’s personal methods for scheduling, goal-setting, and creating lasting systems that prevent future clutter.