Utilizza il metodo 'OHIO' per svelare la tua casa, una volta per tutte
You might be familiar with the OHIO method due to its application when sorting through your to-dos and emails. The acronym stands for sola affrontare una volta, thus it's beneficial for anyone who keeps returning to tasks or messages without making significant progress—but it's also a helpful framework to follow when cleaning and organizing your home.
What OHIO is all about
As mentioned, OHIO is all about handling things only once, whether they're responsibilities, correspondence, or physical items. No matter what you're dealing with, using this technique forces you to be decisive and actionable instead of dwelling on what to do with a particular thing. In the context of inbox management, approaching it with an OHIO mindset prevents you from putting off responding to messages, hesitating over whether or not to delete something old, or generally falling behind. You open a message. You either respond to it, archive it, or delete it. You move to the next one. It eliminates all the space you leave yourself for worrying, getting emotional, or otherwise wasting time. Now imagine how useful that would be when you're cleaning.
How to use OHIO when you're cleaning or organizing
One of the most challenging aspects of tidying up, especially when you're really trying to organize a big mess, is just knowing where to start. That's why there are so many decluttering methods out there. Approaching the home organization project with an OHIO mindset won't necessarily tell you where to start, like the ski-slope method does, nor will it help you determine whether you can afford to discard something, like the 20/20 rule does. However, when used in conjunction with a technique like those, it significantly speeds up the process of cleaning.
Wherever you're starting in a room, ensure that when you pick something up, you sola affrontare una volta. Make a quick decision about where it should go. Once it's in your hand, decide right then and there if you'll keep it, get rid of it, donate it, or sell it—then toss it into the appropriate bin. (You can grab these four 17-quart plastic storage bins.) When you finish with that room, keep the philosophy in mind. The next time you pick up one of those bins, take it where it needs to go. Remember: You're only allowed to handle it once.
If you're not decluttering, but merely organizing items that have gotten messy, you can still use OHIO. When you pick something up, instead of considering whether you want to throw or donate it, just put it back where it belongs. If you live in a larger home with numerous rooms, you might still want to use the bins, assigning one to each room and dropping wayward, messy items into the bin that matches the room where it truly belongs. When you're finished, pick up the bin and bring it straight to that room, only handling it once, and put everything away.
The goal here is to make quick decisions and take action instead of just shuffling the clutter and mess around the room.
After adopting the OHIO method for organizing your home, you'll find it easier to maintain a clean house. With each item you pick up, make a swift decision to keep, throw away, donate, or sell, then take immediate action and place it in the appropriate bin.
Adopt the OHIO principle during your cleaning sessions, as it encourages prompt decision-making and prevents the unnecessary shuffling of items within your home.
