Discover 7 Creative Organization Tips to De-clutter Your Life
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A cluttered home won’t only make your head ache—all that clutter will also slow you down. Five minutes spent looking for a missing sock here and ten minutes spent looking for missing keys there can really add up, robbing you of time you’d rather spend with your family. Use these 7 smart organizing tips to simplify your day!
The amount of mail that even one person receives in a week can be hard to believe, so the mail is one of the easiest and quickest things that can get out of control in your home. If you’re just throwing your mail in a pile to deal with later, that pile can quickly become an overwhelming mess that would take ages to deal with.
You want to save your kids’ schoolwork and art projects to look back on as they grow, but all of that paper can quickly turn into a disorganized jumble. One way to stay organized is to buy large, slim-style plastic storage containers with lids that you can slide under your kids’ beds, and label one for each school year. You can store your child’s schoolwork from that year in the proper container and keep it free of dust and moisture, and take digital photos of larger projects if you aren’t able to keep them.
Pharmacists actually don’t recommend storing many medications in the bathroom medicine cabinet because the damp environment can be harmful to them. Instead, store your medicine on a high shelf in the kitchen, out of reach of children, in labeled sealable plastic tubs. For prescription medications, each person can have their own container with their name. For non-prescription medicines, label one container “cold/flu,” and another “first aid,” etc., for quick, easy access to what you’re looking for.
This is a simple idea, but sometimes the simplest ideas are the most important. Make sure that you have plenty of appropriate storage containers for your closets, shelves, and drawers. Drawer organizers make all the difference between a jumbled-up “junk drawer” and a drawer with handy odds and ends, and having plenty of storage bins for your shelves—even if you don’t have anything to put in them yet—will ensure that things stay in their place when you do start filling the shelves. And storage containers don’t have to be boring: here are some fun DIY mason jar storage ideas. Style it up!
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Published January 7th, 2016 11:49 AM
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