Simple Tips on How to Organize Your Home
Posted: Monday, July 13, 2009
by Theresa Kruger
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How do you organize your home without spending too much? Getting organized shouldn't be complicated. Actually, the more complicated your organizational system, the less likely it is that you'll be able to maintain it. There's some excellent products you can buy to help organize your possessions. Just be careful that you're not just organizing clutter. You want to keep it pared down. Also, resist the temptation to buy organizing products until you know exactly what you need to contain. 1. In the beginning, the easiest and cheapest way to organize your belongings is to use containers. Keep like items together in separate containers. This makes it easier to find what you're looking for, even if you never get around to organizing the contents of the container. Another good reason to "containerize" belongings is that there's a limit to the amount of stuff any one container can hold, which puts a limit on the amount clutter.
3. Think vertical when maximizing your existing storage space. Think about what you might be able to hang behind closed doors, on the wall, and from the ceiling. For example, a shoe rack hung over the back of a door takes up less space than a standing shoe rack. Try to buy same-sized storage boxes. This way, you can stack them on shelves to make use of unused space at the top of closets.
4. Designate temporary storage areas for the following items.... Things that you plan to sell at a future garage sale, gifts purchased in advance of the occasion, clothing to go to the dry cleaner and library books and rented videos that must be returned. Store a marker and stickers with your garage-sale items so that you can price them as you put them into storage.
5. Try not to just toss things into storage. Instead what you can do is keep an open catch-all box in your storage area for catching all those things you find throughout the year that belong in a packed box. Then the next time you pull out all the boxes, you can put away everything in the catch-all box away at the same time.
Organizing your home puts you in control of your belongings by systematizing and putting your things in order. While there are some basic guidelines for getting organized, only you can figure out what works best for you. If it works well enough for you to keep it up, it's a good system!
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