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Closet Organizing
Organizing Tips for Households with Large Families
Everyone in the family could really contribute to a lot of clutter at home. You might notice that when you were still living alone, there was already too much clutter at home. It is not surprising that when you married and started having a growing family, your house instantly turns into a grand place full of clutters and things scattered everywhere. You need to sort out things. Check out the following organization tips to help make your home organized and systematic at the same time.
You could begin the initiative by organizing all your clothes and shoes. Of course, each member of the family could have multiple numbers of clothes and shoes. Most are keeping items even if unused for the longest time. It would be best if you would designate a storage cabinet where all shoes of family members would be stored. It would not be likely if any shoes would be left at the door entrance. When shoes are scattered at the floor, anyone could easily kick them off. When that happens, it could be hard to find the missing match. Finding that match could also aggravate or worsen the cluttering problem. Clothes that are unused for the longest time should already be taken out of the house. Perhaps, you should donate them to charities.
Children of course bring home lots of school papers and artworks. Such papers could get mixed with your daily mail. In a matter of days, the papers could pile up and would look like a total mess. Resolve this problem through going through your children’s paper works on a daily basis. Keep those that need to be kept and throw away those that could be instantly discarded. It would help if you would put a child’s paper works into a separate bin or plastic bag so it would not mix up with papers of your other children. Sort your mails and bills daily or as often as you could. Do not let it pile up. Credit card bills should be instantly burned up or shredded after you settle the amount. You could also keep papers for recycling.
Always clean the house. Put out or keep children’s toys where they should be. It would help if you would designate a drawer or cabinet to store all of your children’s stuff. Be sure not to mix their toys so that they would not create a mess whenever they find their items. Again, old toys should go. Your child might have sentimental values or attachments with some, but those that are practically worthless should already go. They would just pile up.
Don’t stuff your home with too much decors and ornaments. It would be ideal if you would become minimalist. Arrange your furniture and appliances in a way that everyone in the house could have adequate and luxurious free space for extra movements. Your children might run across the rooms every now and then, so be sure no fragile items are displayed.
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Need Help Organizing Clutter?
Clutter is a problem for many people. You may not know it by walking into their house, but they could have piles and piles of it in their closets. You may need help with organizing clutter as well – even if you only have a little bit. Most of the clutter you have is because you are sure you are going to need something – though you are not sure when. That means saving items that seem to have no value to anyone else. You may also not have time to put things away – or lack the space to store your belongings – and you end up with piles around the house that are driving you nuts. Take a day or two to get everything under control and you will feel a whole lot better.
Organizing clutter in your closets may be a matter of taking everything out and starting all over again. If you do not have a lot of storage shelves and hanging bars, you should go out and get some. You can get odd pieces almost anywhere that has home materials, or you can go to a home store and get closet organizer sets. Some are small and some can be as large as you need. You should measure your closets throughly so that you know what pieces you can and can not fit into your own personal space. Once you do that, you can then rearrange and put things back into your new closet space.
Before you put everything back, however, do not forget the most important part of organizing clutter. You have to find a way to let go of some things that you may have been holding on to for a very long time. You should have a few boxes ready for some things that you can either give away to someone you know, to a charity, or that you can throw out for good. If you have not used something in six months, and it is not something you know you will use for sure – get rid of it. You want to save holiday decorations and the like – but that spare computer printer that was made ten years ago can go. It is probably useless anyway.
You can and should do the same things with your clothes if you are working on organizing clutter in your closets. If you have not worn something in six months, you probably will not wear it again. Get it out of your closet and your life. The exclusions would be things you are saving for next winter or next summer, but the suit you wore for your first job interview five years ago is out of style and you are not going to find any new use for it. Be reasonable about what you are going to wear when organizing clutter and your stash of useless things will be far smaller and more manageable.
When you go about organizing clutter in other parts of your home, you have to take a few hours to decide what you really need to save, what papers you can take care of and throw out, and what you can discard right away. This may be piles of mail on your table, or a bunch of plastic storage bowls that you have no place for in your kitchen. Save the good pieces and then get rid of the rest. If a bowl has no lid, it is not doing you much good. You need far less of these than you think. Use this system when organizing clutter anywhere and you will soon be breathing easier.
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Christmas is Coming! Get Organized
Who else wants to relieve stress by bringing order to your life once and for all? Are You Pulling Your Hair Out Because Your Life is a Disorganized Mess? Feel like a chicken running around with your head cut off?
Is your house a mess? Papers piling up on your kitchen counter. You can no longer see what color the top of your desk is. And it’s getting harder and harder to feel comfortable in your own home with the mess. The hectic schedule. And the unorganized life.
There comes a point when you must say, “Enough! I need to get organized now if it kills me!”
Sometimes all it takes is a little push in the right direction to get started. To make just a few changes to a busy life that makes it more manageable.
Where can you get that push? Let me help you with my guide… Let’s Get Organized!
http://theorganizerlady.com/getorganized.html
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How to End Clutter and Make Home Organization Easier
I’ve spoken to quite a few people over the years who say they have very nice clothes they love but the don’t wear them anymore. But my question is this: If you value something so much…then don’t you think you should be wearing it?
The reality is we are a society who likes to accumulate and, dating back to the Great Depression, we tend to keep everything we believe has monetary value when, in reality, it really doesn’t.
For example, a pretty dress or a nice suit you bought ten years ago went for what can be considered a lot of money. And the problem is you haven’t touched it in nine years because, as most clothes do, it went out of style. Could it come back in style someday? Maybe. Styles do often return. But this is not a reason to hold onto things you don’t use…”just in case.”
You feel like, because you spent “good” money on it, you are throwing money away. But ask yourself this… is it putting money in your pocket sitting there in the back of your closet with dust on the shoulders? Is it giving you anything? Do you benefit at all from keeping outdated outfits? Now ask yourself one more question… will you gain anything by getting rid of it and donating it to charity? Of course you will!
The benefits?
More space to be able to keep the clothes you are going to wear (we only wear 50% of the clothes we own, by the way.) I might even suggest buying a new outfit for every three to five you get rid of.
The purpose?
Because new clothes make people feel good. I don’t recommend buying new clothes for the sake of buying new clothes and throwing away your money. But you’ve got to admit putting on a new pair of pants that make us look better is a nice, uplifting feeling. The thing is the items taking up space, yes, you paid for them. But by keeping something you no longer wear or use you are not getting anything in return but more clutter and a lack of storage space you could be using for something else.
Here is something you should do right now with items (they don’t have to be clothes) you are holding onto because you paid good money for them.
1. Go find ten items you own for one reason and one reason only… because you paid for it.
2. Grab a piece of paper and make three columns.
3. Write the items you are having trouble getting rid of in the left column. In the middle column, write “why I am keeping this item” and in the third column write “what will I gain by getting rid of this item.”
My guess is you will have a lot more in the right column than you will in the middle. Be specific with both. If you can honestly fill up the middle column with more reasons of why you should keep it, and they are good, legitimate reasons, then maybe you shouldn’t get rid of it. But I’m willing to bet that won’t be the case.
Clean out, declutter, have a more organized home.
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