Today's Topic: Getting Organized
I read an article about little habits that you can do on a regular basis that will help in keeping your home as organized as possible. The suggestions seem easy enough, but I am sure most of us have one or two we could work on.
Below are the tips suggested to keep your house organized OR you can click HERE to read the article in it's entirety.
Closets: Each day, hang up everything and put away clean laundry. Put your shoes back in their places, straighten stacks, and have a regular habit of bringing empty hangers back to the laundry room. Remove clothing along the way as you decide to donate it, and put it in your "Donation Station," using a paper shopping bag or box to gather those items for Goodwill. Twice a year when you organize and change out seasonal clothing, these habits will keep everything more visible and manageable when you are ready to do a bigger project.
Garages: Break down cardboard boxes, manage your recycling and trash, sweep excess leaves and dirt to keep them from tracking into the house, and keep a path cleared between the car and the door. Return sports equipment, chairs, and bikes to their racks and shelves. And each time you fill up with gas, empty the trash from your car right there at the gas pump!
Pantries: Each time you return from the grocery store and put food away, stop and straighten up what's there. Move cans and boxes for greater visibility, throw away containers with only a few crumbs left, and check for moldy bread and stale chips. Reclose cereal cartons and cracker boxes that your family has left open, and remove excess packaging from large warehouse purchases like soft drinks, paper towels, and snack foods.
Entry and Exit Doors: Take shoes back to bedroom closets, put errand items in your car, and clear out mail and papers. Hang up coats, put dirty socks in the laundry room, and get the kids to handle their odds-and-ends of toys and school items once a week.
So how well do you score on the Organizational Meter? If there is one thing you could work on from the list above, what would it be? And if there is one thing you already do every day, what it is?
Lindsey's Response:
Organizing is much different than cleaning. Cleaning involves spray bottles, dusting rags, brooms and a lot of scrubbing whereas organizing simply involves picking things up and finding everything a "place" in your home. A word I like to use a lot is "Tidy." I feel as though my house is most always tidy, but not always clean. As mentioned in a previous post, I try to do the cleaning once a week but tidying at my house happens every day.
I feel like I lack in the closet department. Clothes and shoes always make it into my closet, but I can't say it is as organized as well as it should be. In fact, if anyone saw my closet I'd be embarrassed which has now motivated me to spend a couple hours of my weekend getting it back in organizational shape (You see, this blog is good for something).
The girl's closet stays pretty organized because if it didn't it would mean spending more time trying to get them dressed for the day - a task that needs to go as quickly and as smoothly as possible. And my pantry stays fairly organized, although I have no doubt there are cartons that are almost empty and probably a bag or two of stale chips that don't need to be taking up valuable space.
As far as the garage goes, well that's my husband's job. We're not the cleanest garage on the street but not the worst either. We can park in it, which is more than other people in my neighborhood can say.
So how organized are you? Leave your comments here on the blog or on the Letters To Lindsey FB page. Any ideas or questions you want to discuss can be sent to LettersToLindseyBlog@gmail.com!
Thanks For Reading,
Lindsey
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