The busier life gets, the less time you have to take care of your home. When you keep your house and life organized, it’s easier to keep everything neat and to quickly find items when you need them. Follow these tips to keep the rooms in your home organized and clutter-free.
1. Turn all of your hangers around so that they face the wrong way. When you wear an item of clothing, put it back the correct way. At the end of one year, take everything you haven’t worn and donate it.
2. If your kitchen drawers are filled to the max with utensils, pour them all into a large cardboard box. Whenever you take a utensil out of the box and use it, return it to the drawer. At the end of two months, get rid of any utensils that are left in the box.
3. Go through your bathroom cabinets and throw out anything that has a past due expiration date. If the item doesn’t have a date on it, check with the manufacturer.
4. If you haven’t referred to your bills in the past year, chances are that there’s no reason to hold onto them. Go through your filing cabinet and get rid of anything that’s more than 12 months old. Make sure to shred the bills, since they have your personal information on them. If you feel more comfortable keeping some type of record, scan the bills and save them on your computer. Also, many companies now let you access your bills online, so they’re always there if you need to refer to them.
5. Label all of the boxes in your garage. Since you’ll only need them once a year or even less often, it’s easy to forget what you stored in each box. If you keep things labeled, you won’t make a mess when trying to locate something.
6. Every six months, go through your children’s toys. What have they grown out of? What are they no longer interested in? Go through the collection with your kids and decide what should stay and what should be donated, sold, or thrown out.
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Great ideas! It is so hard to get rid of stuff and just when you do, you need it again in a few weeks and have to go our and buy more!
These are very good tips and I shall try to implement them. My house is desperately in need of decluttering.bbI never thought of turning the hangars around!
these are great ideas, esp if you don’t need to do it all right away. It makes it easier to truly see in black and white what you haven’t used!!! and harder to make excuses to keep things hanging around. I’ve been making efforts to declutter, so I’m going to try a few of these. I have a “good” day, and I need to hurry and get the stuff out, as if I see the bags and boxes for a few days while I’m getting ready to donate, etc., I start going through them and deciding I might really need many of these things – some day!!!
Very good tips to help all of us to keep save time and energy daily. I cant think when the clutter in my house builds up.
These are all great tips – but unfortunately, the 3 of us here are bordering on being hoarders. We just can’t bear to throw anything out. Plus, the apartment really has no storage space – no attic, or basement or garage. I wish I could follow your tips – but I think I’d have to hire a professional “organizer” to do this for me. My middle name should be clutter, OMG!
These are really good ways to declutter my home. I like the one about dumping all the kitchen utensils and the ones that you use, put in drawer and get rid of the others. I am going to try this, and I am going to try the clothes hanger trick.