How to Organize Your Home When You Are Unorganized
Being unorganized can make your life so much harder. Unorganized chaos in your home can cause an unending, overall sense of added stress because you’re lacking a certain amount of order in your life. It also causes unsightly clutter and makes it hard to find things.
The good news is that with some easy, home organization tips, you can have your home whipped into shape in no time. It may seem like an impossible task right now, but when broken down into smaller projects, organization is inevitable.
Try these simple organization tips:
1. Get rid of your clutter. There is no use in organizing items that you’re not going to keep. Get rid of those items first will cut down on your organization time. It’s best to live by the rule that if you haven’t used an item in over a year and it doesn’t hold sentimental value, you should consider letting go of it. (And might I add, that I am the world’s worst at doing this!)
* Make piles for trash, donations, and things to sell. You can use websites like eBay or Facebook garage sale pages t to sell unwanted items for extra cash. Also, a super-easy way to get rid of your nicer clothes and earn some extra cash is to consign at a local consignment store, or create a Poshmark account and list your clothes there. I use Poshmark all the time because they literally do everything for you. You only have to post pictures, a description, and then print and ship the provided label when someone makes a purchase!!! Sign up using my invite code to get $10 in your Poshmark account here. Use code SLHUDSON16 to get your $10 added to your account.
2. Start small. It’s important to set small goals for yourself, room by room, throughout your house. When you focus on everything as a whole it can get so crazy and overwhelming that it might seem like a lost cause. Start small and keep it simple!
* Try starting in your bathroom, or better yet, just start by going through the cabinet underneath your bathroom sink. Throw out old items and organize the rest. Afterward, you can call it a day and then work on another small project the next time.
* As you move to new rooms, maintain the organization of the rooms you’ve already done. You don’t want to complete a few rooms only to find out that your bathroom cabinets are disorganized again.
3. Learn how to store things. Just because you have removed your things out of sight, it doesn’t mean that you have an organizational method. Plan a strategy to store similar things together in marked storage bins.
* Once you follow through on your storage strategy, then you’ll know where things are. You can also benefit from learning how to store things in sight. Make good use of shelves, baskets, or furniture with built-in storage space to keep things neat and where you’re likely to need them.
4. Create a cleaning schedule. Once you have your home in order, it’s all about the maintenance mode. You’ll need to find a way to keep things in order. Make a schedule to keep track of what chores are done and when. You can even schedule a time to deal with clutter to get everything back into its proper place.
* Dividing up the cleaning tasks throughout the week will make it easier to maintain the order you worked so hard to achieve. This limits “chore time” into short increments of time. Instead of spending an entire Saturday cleaning, clean a room each day, and then you can have fun on the weekend while your home is still neat and tidy.
* Establish the habit of picking up as you go. If you have children, this is a great way to get them involved with the process also. When you take something out of its place to use it, put it back when you’re done.
If you really want to change your life, you can do it. Even if you have been unorganized forever, use these tips to help you turn things around and enjoy that lovely home that you have worked so hard to create.
Do you have any organizational tips that you use in your home? If so, I would love to know in the comments below.
This was a great read and so useful. Some days I feel like I need to be better organized. My home office and work office are both disorganized. I definitely appreciate these vital tips for staying organized.
I find that having a place for everything and having everything in its place, helps. also a general declutter ever so often is good because we store up too much junk which we are unable to keep on top of.
Storage containers and other solutions also come in handy and so does labelling because sometimes you know where stuff is kept but the others you live with might not know.
Thanks for sharing this gem.
Yes, these are great tips also! I love storage containers to keep everything in its place and easily found.