National Organize Your Home Day Date in the current year: January 14, 2026

Many people associate home organization with the KonMari method, which was introduced by Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television presenter Marie Kondo. This method involves sorting through one’s belongings one category at a time and discarding items that do not “spark joy”. However, there are many other organizing methods, some more rigorous than the KonMari method and some more relaxed, so everyone can choose the method that best fits their living space and personality.

In her book Decluttering at the Speed of Life, for example, Dana K. White offers a practical, low-stress approach to organization. Rather than tackling an entire home at once or following rigid rules, she encourages taking small, consistent actions, such as sorting one area or even one item at a time. Rather than creating piles of items that need to be sorted, she advises looking through an area for anything out of place and putting such items where they belong or throwing them away. This approach can be helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by clutter, offering a manageable, step-by-step path.

Cassandra Aarssen’s Clutterbug method is based on the idea that your organizing system should match your natural habits. It categorizes people into four personality types (butterfly, bee, ladybug, and cricket) depending on whether they prefer hidden or visual storage and whether they organize by broad or detailed categories. Rather than focusing primarily on decluttering, the method emphasizes creating storage solutions that are easy to maintain for your personality type.

Room-by-room organizing is a straightforward method that focuses on decluttering and organizing one room at a time rather than sorting items by category across the entire house. This method is great for people motivated by visible progress because each completed room feels finished and usable. While it may be less thorough than category-based methods, it does not disrupt your daily routine because the rest of your home remains usable while you’re decluttering one room.

These are just a few examples; there are many more decluttering and organizing systems that share one common goal: to help you find a solution that works for you. National Organize Your Home has the same goal. The origins of Organize Your Home Day are unclear, but this holiday can undoubtedly be helpful for many people.

Organizing your home may seem daunting, but you don’t have to do it all at once. The main goal of Organize Your Home Day is to inspire you to take the first step, whether that means cleaning out your desk drawers, going through your closet and donating clothes you no longer wear, making a list of things you need to do to declutter your home, or comparing different organizing systems to find the one that works best for you.