Organizing what you have is much more than reshuffling what you currently have. That is, moving a stack of books from on your desk to under your desk is not what organizing is all about. Buying or installing some shelving is how to organize. That is, creating more useful space is what organizing is all about. Most spaces have a limited amount of horizontal space. The key is utilizing the abundant vertical space in your home or office. This means installing shelves, hutches, chest of drawers and hanging apparatuses to better utilize your vertical space. A six shelf bookshelf, for example, will have the same footprint as a three-shelf bookshelf, but will hold twice as many books or files.
This is where most homes can really free up space. Getting rid of that old sofa in the garage (that you really don’t intend to use anymore anyway) or throwing out clothes that is unlikely to ever be worn again makes space where there wasn’t before. One option is, of course, to start throwing unused things away, but this can be wasteful. Think about holding a garage sale and offer things of little or no value for free. Also consider giving genuinely useful items to local charities. You never know if your junk will become someone’s treasure!
There are many things that you need to keep like business records or seasonal items that you do not need to keep in your home or place of business. These things can be easily put in a self-storage facility. A good storage facility is probably more secure than your home or office and can serve as a good place to keep the items that you need to keep but you don’t have to access on a daily basis.