5 “organizing” habits that secretly make more clutter

(and what actually helps instead)

Sometimes it happens like this:
you start to organize one drawer, feel productive, then realize the mess just moved to another corner.
It’s not that we’re doing it wrong — it’s that some habits look like progress when they’re really just rearranging the problem.

Here’s what keeps showing up in our homes — and the small shifts that make things actually stay…