Organize Your Home Day is January 14! 10 Easy Tips!
If you want to be more organized at home in 2014 but are not sure where to begin, home stager Kathy Streib has some great helpful tips to get you started.
Organize Your Home Day is January 14- 10 Easy Tips!
As a home stager and someone who constantly needs organizing, I can tell you that if you want to remove the stress you feel in your life, then
start by getting organized.
You don’t have to wait until you are about to place your home on the market, which is what many people do. Result-Stress, and lots of it.
10 Helpful Tips:
1. Enlist help.
Whether you gather your family members around, a best friend or a professional organizer, getting help will prevent you from spending hours trying to decide if you still want to keep the dress you wore one time, or the stacks of National Geographic Magazines.
2. Get rid of what you only think you need.
We are a nation of savers. That’s not all that bad but if you want to get organized, then you’ve got to get ruthless. Do you really need 2 blenders or every birthday card you’ve ever received?
3. Go Paperless.
Paper, including magazines, catalogs, correspondence, is probably the most difficult thing for anyone to tame. There are so many ways to rid yourself of paper piles and save our planet as well.
4. Take one area or room at a time.
If you step back and look at the prospect of organizing your whole house then it’ll never happen. You don’t even have to start with a room… start with an area in that room! You can even begin with just one drawer! The important thing is to take the first step.
5. AFTER you’ve edited, then look for storage bins/baskets for those items you have left.
Not everything will go in your closets, shelves or drawers, so after you’ve edited what you have, you will be able to see what you’ll need. You need to avoid the “Shove it and stuff it” mentality.
6. Make it a habit
It’s what mothers teach their children… put one toy away before you get another one out. Make it your habit at night to make sure everything has been picked up. Why not start the next day off organized?!
7. Have a place for everything and keep it that way.
Keep “like” things together so you’ll always know where to look for it and where to place it when it’s time to put it away.
8. Make a schedule.
If you’re not someone who will automatically file or organize items, then put yourself on a schedule.
For example: Monday-clean the fridge; Tuesday-pay bills and file all papers.. .you choose what you do and when.
9. Stop it at the door.
You know all those advertising flyers we get in the mail? Or the freebies that we get when we go to a meeting or function? Don’t even let them in the house if you don’t have a use for it. Stop at your garbage can or recycle bin and toss it then.
10. Set aside a bag/box for items you will donate.
You can have one in your utility room, your closet, wherever it will work for you. Make it easy on yourself. Don’t wait until the day you decide to purge your closet. Make it an ongoing project!
Being organized doesn’t make you some kind of nerd. What it does is mentally set you free to do the things you want or need to do.
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