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in Home Maintenance, Organizing Tips · 2020-01-20

Organizing Your Home – Where to Start

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Have you been looking for better ways to organize your home? At least once a year schedule a time to organize your entire house. Yes, complete. If you only clean one room, you will most likely throw everything into a different area and so the mess never ends. But don’t worry, organizing your home is not a complicated task, but it does take time. Mark a whole day or a weekend on your calendar for this task and follow the doable steps below:

Top tips Organizing Your Home & Where To Start

-Create a list
Write down all the rooms and spaces in your home. Then, write each drawer and space you need to organize, per room. For example, in the main room, you can list the closet, the dresser, under the bed, the bedside tables and the desk. In the kitchen, your list may include the refrigerator, pantry shelves, cabinets, drawers, the island and the dish cabinet. When you finish this list, you may feel overwhelmed, but think that many of the spaces you just wrote only take a few minutes to organize.

-Start with the easiest room
Prepare everything you need, like trash bags, cardboard boxes, rags, and cleaning items, and then choose the room you can finish faster. If you start with the easiest part, you will feel that you are moving faster. Set a timer. Remove everything you have in the first drawer or space you have to organize, and for now, leave it on the floor. Take a few minutes to clean the drawer completely, dusting and wiping with a damp cloth.

-Separate the garbage
Now take a look at what was in the drawer. Without wasting much time, separate everything that is garbage. Start with the obvious, like paper or broken things. Then check the remaining items you have. Are there things that are in poor condition and you will not use it again? Put them with the trash. Do you have things you will not use again but are in good condition? Separate them for a garage sale or to give them to someone who needs them. Be sure to write on the bags or boxes with a marker if they are garbage or not, so you don’t confuse them.

-Separate what you want to save
This step is perhaps the one that takes you the longest: decide what you can store in storage and what you need every day. Surely you have done this when it is time to store clothes and shoes at the end of summer or winter, but now you must do it with all your belongings. For example, in the kitchen, are there sources that you only use a few times a year? If you don’t have much space, it’s a good idea to store them in a box in the garage or basement. The same with important papers, such as taxes from past years or contracts. If you don’t use it several times a week, then think about keeping it in a box. Write the contents of each box before closing it so you can find everything when you need it.

-Put everything in its place
You are almost done. Yes! Now, It’s the time to put things in their place. Do it in an organized way. Arrange papers, fold clothes and put everything in order. If you have boxes to store, separate them per room and make sure the legend with what is inside is visible.
Once you have the first tidy and clean environment continue with another, following the same steps, until you finish with your whole home. Do not forget to mark on your list what you have already finished. Apart from enjoying the final finish, it is one of the most rewarding parts.

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