Organizing your Home

Do you need to organize your house? Organizing your home can be a daunting task when the piles are overflowing, the laundry is scattered, and the office is flooded in papers.

As a stay at home mom, I am in-charge when it comes to cleaning and organizing our home. I do not have an obsessive compulsive disorder but I definitely hate clutter. So, in pursuit of finding solutions in organizing our home, I came up with the following tips that you can use in organizing  every room in your house.

1.  You have to assign a specific place for all the objects in your house. You can do this with a variety of organizing tools, including drawer organizers, shoe racks, magazine racks, filing cabinets, drawers, and shelving units. Make sure that everything has a proper holding spot. Whenever an item has been removed from its assigned home, make sure that it is immediately returned to its homes when no longer in use. 

2.  One of the keys to keeping an organized home is to pick up as you go. Don’t let the piles of toys, dishes, and paperwork take over. Instead, clean up everything as you go along. Pick up a few things as you’re walking through the house. Spend 15 minutes each day organizing your office. You’ll be surprised at what a huge difference these daily habits can make.

3.  Organize your drawers. The best way to clean something out is to start with a clean slate. Next, remove all of the unneeded junk from the pile and throw it in the trash. Once you have finished removing all of the junk, go through the remaining items and sort them into 3 piles: stuff you want to keep, stuff you’d like to give away, and stuff that needs to be put somewhere else. Now you can put everything that you want to keep back in the drawer. This procedure can be used in almost any part of the house: empty everything out, toss out all junk, create 3-4 piles, and only put back the essentials.

4.  One of my favorite organizing tips is to dump it! Anything that you haven’t used in the past year probably needs to be thrown away. Getting rid of your junk will greatly help organize your home and give you more space.

5. A filing cabinet is one of the best organizing tools. They help keep all of your important paperwork organized.  

6. Take a careful look around your bedroom for clutter. This means anything you no longer use, want or need. Quickly grab anything that belongs in another room in the house. Move these items to the appropriate room. Attack your closet and dresser drawers. If you have not worn it in 6 months, purge it.

Your bedroom is the first thing you see when you wake up every morning. It sets the tone for the rest of your day. If you open your eyes to clutter, you will start your day feeling overwhelmed. But if you open your eyes to organization just think of the motivation you will feel and how that can carry you through the rest of your day!

The first big step in getting your house organized is to do a clean sweep of each room. Clear your clutter, put everything away and start with a clean slate. Once you do that, maintenance will be easy.