Some of my organising tips: 1. Leave everything exactly where you last used it. Chances are that's where you'll next use it. Much more efficient than putting it away and getting it out again. Also more memorable so I don't lose things.
2. Leave cupboard doors open. Saves loads of opening and closing time and it also helps you see where things are. 3. Never make your bed; it will just get messed up again in a few hours.
4. Keep your clothes on a chairdrobe instead of a floordrobe. It's easier on your back.
5. Follow a tidy-to-rest ratio. Eg tidy for 10 minutes and rest for a year.
6. Keep separate active glasses for different drinks. Then you don't have to wash them for ages. Eg one for water, one for whisky, one for red wine, one for white wine.
7. Keep two laundry baskets: one for clean stuff and one for dirty. Then you never really have to put your laundry away.
8. Keep your books in a completely random order. Then it takes longer to find specific books and you can feel like you have way more books than you do*, and you also get to stumble on things by accident. *This is only good if you like books.
9. Spread pens and pencils around evenly so there's always one of each within arm's reach in your whole house. (That's if, like me, you still write by hand.) They will probably gravitate to certain spots so will need redistributing periodically, like bikeshare bikes.
10. Don't draw your curtains. You'll just have to undraw them again. It also saves confusion about the English use of "draw" to mean both opening and closing curtains. I leave the ones in the bedrooms closed and the ones everywhere else open all the time. Saves loads of effort!
11. Set a New Year's Resolution not to tidy: you'll probably break it. Further confuse the issue by setting another resolution to keep a resolution and another to break one.
12. Make all your socks the same so you don't have to spend time matching them. (Or just don't match them, if your aesthetics allow.)
13. Get dressed in the dark. You save time because you can't look in the mirror. (This is irrelevant if you already don't look in the mirror.) You also save electricity. Admittedly not much but it can balance out point 14 a bit.
14. Save time at night by going to sleep with the lights on. (You might think it will be too bright but I just close my eyes. Maybe I have particularly effective eyelids?)
