If you want to get your home organized, but find yourself wondering where to begin, you’re not alone. All homes have stuff; homes of single people have stuff; homes with pets have stuff, and homes with children have stuff stuffed everywhere you can possibly stuff stuff. If you want to get control of your home organizing, the key is to start small and think simply.
As a Professional Organizer, I can help you get to the bottom of your piles, transform your space and maintain home organizing. You can, however, get started on your own, today!
These 5 Simple Tasks for Daily Home Organizing may not seem like much, but the impact in completing them everyday is huge. Not only will getting rid of the everyday clutter give you more time and energy to focus on bigger organizing challenges like a basement or garage, but you will be more productive and less stressed.
1. Make your bed…in the morning…before you start your day. Whether you work in or out of the home, eliminating the cluttered appearance of an unmade bed will help you be more productive and focused. Getting up is the hard part.
2. Pick up your clothes. Nothing screams clutter like piles of laundry, especially if you’ve been pulling items out of the piles all week. Putting away laundry is probably one of my least favorite tasks, but what a good feeling it is when I can see the floor again!
3. Load the dishwasher. Out of sight…out of mind. I’m destined for a rotten day if I wake up to a sink full of last night’s dirty dishes. This is a perfect example of the stress and general irritability caused by clutter. They might still be dirty in the dishwasher, but don’t tell my brain that.
4. Put toys away each night before bed. After number 3, I was beginning to feel like a scolding mother. Well, now I definitely feel that way. This one is along the same lines as the dirty dishes. Waking up to a room cluttered with toys is not a positive way to start your day. And if you don’t have kids, this still applies to you and your stuff!
5. Clean up one mess before making another one. I can’t cook in a messy kitchen. I don’t care if it’s the witching hour, and the hunger is feeding on all sense and logic in my kids’ brains. The same goes for getting any work done on a cluttered desk. Trying to start any project in the after-mess of another is a ticket to failure. Take the 10 minutes to start fresh.
Again, I apologize for sounding like your mother. I won’t put you in a time out if you’re not doing all 5 of these tasks, but you’ll be much happier if you make them routine. Once you can tackle these simple tasks for daily home organizing, you’ll be ready for the bigger stuff, like that chaotic pantry that’s eating away at your soul.
