Home Organizing
A place for everything and
everything in its place!
Home organizing can greatly reduce your cleaning time and stress level. Almost everything that surrounds you is silently calling for your attention…. Dust me, read me, wash me. Keep only the things that are of use, loved or beautiful to you. Organizing the rest will save you time in searching for misplaced items. Give everything a place and don’t move anything twice. Recycle, reuse, donate, throw away or sell items that you don’t need. Store keepsakes and knickknack items in cabinets and glass cases to minimize your dusting duties. Preventing chaos from happening, when you bring something new home, discard something. There have been many studies concerning clutter and it’s negative affects on your health and mind, so it’s time to get your home organized!
Take it room by room and sift and sort through everything, every drawer, cabinet and closet. Decide what you can live without and get rid of it. Weed through your closets and anything that doesn’t fit, or you never wear, get rid of it. Most people only wear 25% of their clothes and the rest is just taking up space.
Purge your things, and categorize them however it makes sense for you. Organize clothes by season and/or color or type. Organize books by category so you know what you have when looking for one. Put photos in boxes in some type of order, throwing out the ones that look terrible.
Organizing your kitchen will make daily tasks easier. Keep your counters clear. Find new homes for occasionally used appliances and other items. Divide your pantry into sections for each item type, appliances, food, liquor, towels, bags, etc. Throw out expired food! A great way to clean up the mess of plastic grocery bags is to make a bag keeper. Simply sew a piece of heavy-duty fabric into a tube and leave a hole on each end to shove and pull the bags through. For paper bags, fold them up and put them into a vertical file holder or cut cereal box.
Garage organizing can be a bit more difficult, but once accomplished it will be easy to maintain. Rule of order; don’t store anything on the floor. Items can be easily damaged by water, they tend to get moved around more often and broken, plus they’re in the way. Instead, buy closed cabinets, shelves, use hooks, clips and rods to keep things in their place. You can purchase specialty hanging devices for bicycles, fishing rods and other hard to store items. Organize your garage into zones, one for auto, sports, paints etc. Clear plastic storage bins can help keep things in order and easily see their contents. Coil up extension cords and store them in paper towel or toilet paper tubes. Label your tools if you have more multiples so you’ll know where they belong, like garage or kitchen or office scissors.
One of the best secrets to home organizing is to put everything in or on something dividing it up. Use shelves with dividers made from cardboard, simple metal bookends, brackets or cedar wood pieces. Baskets, buckets and boxes properly labeled can help with closets. Junk and office drawers can easily be divided up with cardboard to fit each item. Use a filing cabinet for papers and bills. Attach suction cup holders inside medicine cabinets to hold toothbrushes nail files and the like.
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