How to Keep Your Home Organized

Making time in your day to organize is important. It can help you handle stressful and chaotic situations. 

 

The project will give you lots of time to reflect, allowing you to come at a project like navigating a South Carolina FR-10 form with a cool confidence that would have been impossible to have before. 

 

Unfortunately, organizing is one of those tasks that is very hard to do if you have no experience with it or if you’re too stressed. If you feel this applies to you, then read on to see some advice on how to handle it.

Make Your Bed Every Day

Making your bed is one of those small chores that you probably push to the wayside. You have to take a shower, get dressed, maybe put on some makeup, make breakfast, etc., before work. You don’t have time to deal with your bed. This is just an excuse, though; making the bed will only take a minute or two at most and is much more important than you realize. 

 

Your room is your safety net against the rest of the world. You go in there to be alone and relax before falling asleep. The better it looks, the better you’ll feel. Your bed is the centerpiece of the room, so if it looks messy, the whole room looks messy and may even become messy. All you have to do to change this is adjust the sheets if necessary, pull the comforter up so it covers the sheets and then fluff your pillows.

Do Quick Tasks Immediately

Stop procrastinating on the small tasks. You likely won’t have the energy to do them later if you already don’t now, so why wait? 

 

Doing all of these little chores now will make the future much easier: cleaning up after supper with an already empty sink will be much less time-consuming, taking out the trash is easier when you don’t have a bunch of stuff piled around it and ding a quick dust now will allow you to focus more on vacuuming on deep-clean day.

Keep Everyday Items Close to Each Other

Keeping your everyday items close to each other is one of the most effective organization techniques for one simple reason: you’ll stop losing stuff. For example, keeping your travel bag close to your shoes and coat/jacket will ensure you never forget it before your long trip. 

 

Having your umbrella basket near a little tray that holds your keys and sunglasses will see you more comfortably walking to your car on sunny or rainy days. Having your deodorant close to your toothbrush and toothpaste will remind you to do those chores at the same time so you are less likely to forget one. 

 

No matter what you choose to do or how you do it, make sure you keep using the system you create. You’ll just end up disorganized and upset again later if you don’t.

Give Each Room a Clear Purpose

Organization is much more difficult when the room you’re organizing is incredibly multi-purpose. You’ll want to keep a lot of stuff there to accommodate all of its uses which leaves you with a tricky game of Tetris. 

 

Instead of humming the theme sign and making a mess every time you want to play a game in the living room, give each room a clear purpose. We’ll use the dining room as an example. A supply station can be created to hold extra color pencils, erasers, folders and the like. This also allows children a good place to keep their school stuff so they don’t lose it. 

 

Things like napkins and mats will need to be able to be quickly stored and easily accessible to keep mealtimes uncomplicated. Once you start to experience the benefits of defining each room’s use, you’ll wish you’d done it sooner.

Set a Timer

You’ve likely heard to slow down and do one room at a time. This makes the process easier as you can check each room off of a list as it gets done. But this can still be incredibly intimidating, so spend fifteen to twenty minutes organizing at a time. This can be a great motivator since you’ll know exactly how long the effort will take. 

 

The best part is that, if you’re stumped on how to tackle the problem, you can use that time to sit back, do some research and come up with a few possible solutions. Just remember to not get caught up in this last suggestion; you do still need to actually organize.

Work Your Way Up to Big Tasks

The best way to organize is to get rid of the old clutter you won’t or don’t use. This can be difficult when you have a lot of room to go through, though. Don’t let yourself get overwhelmed; start small and work your way up to the bigger places. 

 

Instead of tackling a whole closet, go through your work bag or hiking pack first. Work your way slowly up to drawers, then cabinets and mirrors, then countertops and shelves until you eventually can do an entire desk or shelving system in one go with no issues.

Get Storage Organizers

Sometimes, you need a little bit of extra help to keep your system working. Enter storage organizers. Think of them like the silverware holder in your silverware drawer. That keeps the butter knives separate from the forks and the forks separate from the spoons. These organizers will do something similar and make it much easier to adhere to your system in the future.

Get Some Help

Not every job can be done alone, and it’s fairly common for this to be the case in organizing. Sometimes, you just need someone a bit taller than you ro reach the top of a shelf. Other times you need someone else’s opinion on what would work best in your space. While videos and online research can help, nothing is as effective as having a friend come over and work with the space in-person. 

 

If your buddies are busy. Then you can contact a professional organizer for help instead. They may be able to give more in depth advice than your friends. Just remember that everything they tell us is a suggestion and doesn’t have to be permanent. If you made a change they suggested and you don’t like it. Then find a new solution.