To ensure your home is a disorganized disaster in no time, follow these tried and true ways:

1. Buy clothes and never wear them. Put them away in your closet with the price tag on and find them 3 years later.
2. Enter every contest and subscribe to every magazine you won’t ever read. Just let them pile up on a corner of your table until ‘one day…’
3. Plan a weekly shop at Costco and purchase as if you were a family of 6, even though you are only 2 left in the house.
4. Don’t open your mail until you get a cut off notice. Leave mail and flyers in a pile in your entry-way so you can trip over them on your way in the door.
5. Keep everything because you never know when you will need that waffle iron that you got 25 years ago at your first wedding.
6. Bring back a souvenir from every place you’ve ever travelled because you can’t have too many shot glasses, ball caps, and t-shirts.
7. Downsize from your 4000 square foot home and bring absolutely everything with you to your condo apartment, including your lawn mower.

If mastering your disorganization is not quite the achievement you were looking to win the trophy for, you might want to consider some of these quick tips from our archives:

• Could Your Clothes be Worth Thousands?
• Clearing Your Clutter Without Cluttering the Landfill
• Sharing Through Clearing