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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Organizing Kids Rooms
If you could give me one simple idea for organizing kids’ rooms what would it be?
Keeping kids’ rooms organized is all about having good organizational systems in place that work with your child’s age, lifestyle, personality and available space. For instance, adding a second rod to your child’s closet is one of the easiest ways to double clothes storage space. However if your child doesn’t have a closet, many clothes or simply isn’t good about hanging up his or her clothes, use colorful organizing bins that match the decor of the room to organize clothes, accessories and toys. These organizing bins can be stored on closet shelves (if you don’t have any, add some – you’d be surprised at how much more storage space you will have) or on adjustable floor-to-ceiling wall shelving.
Organizing Your Family Room
What’s your best tip for keeping the family/living room under control?
A large catchall storage basket (that matches the decor of the room) would be my best tip for keeping a family/living room under control. The key to its success is actually the executing of two steps. The first is to use this basket daily to pick up stuff laying around and then depending on your time or level of energy at the end of the day, either put things away immediately or utilizing a set of organizing bins to sort items e.g. four labelled pop up mesh laundry hampers (these can easily be stored under a bed or in the corner of a closet when not in use). Label each with ‘Need to Decide’, ‘Donate’, ‘Toss’ and ‘Put Away Later’. Simply sort items into the appropriate clutter hamper daily and then deal with everything on a weekly basis.
Basement Storage and Organization
When it comes to organizing basement storage and organization, where should you start? What’s the most important thing to tackle? What’s the most common clutter culprit?
The most common clutter culprit in your basement having more stuff than we really need. Often we have so much stuff that we’re overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.
If that’s the case, you just have to dig in and start clutter busting! Where you start doesn’t really matter, the key is to carve out sufficient time (at least an hour the first day) to take a realistic look at what you have and come up with a plan. You need to determine what you need to keep, what needs to be stored elsewhere (e.g. your garage) as well as what needs to be sold, given away, or tossed. You then need to come up with a plan and figure out where in your basement you’re going to store it all.
To read the full article visit Basement Storage and Organization.
Organized Home
People can sometimes get overwhelmed with advice so if you could recommend just three things to maintain an organized home (on an on-going basis), what would those be?
Planning, routines and organizational systems are the three keys to an organized home.
Planning – Planning goes a long way to keeping your home and family life organized. At the beginning of the week, plan for the week ahead. This could involve making grocery lists, menu planning, consulting the family calendar for activities and making a plan as to how to accomplish everything and fit it all in.
When you have plans in place you are better able to deal with the unexpected. Knowing what you’re having for dinner during the week, having all the ingredients on hand for healthy school lunches and making sure everyone gets to their extra-curricular activities on time goes a long way to keeping stress at bay and things organized on the home front.
To read the full article visit Organized Home.
Getting Kids to Help Out
What about kids? What’s the number one way they can contribute to an organized home?
Getting your kids to pick up after themselves via daily clean-up routines is the number one way your children can contribute to an organized home. Set a timer and make a five minute clean up and tidy part of your child’s bedtime routine. If clean ups become part of a regular routine like brushing teeth, it should never take your kids any more than five minutes a day to keep the clutter at bay.
In addition to the use of a timer, putting on some music can add to the fun as can colorful organizers (that coordinate with your kids’ rooms) and making a game out of trying to beat the clock. Of course, making a rule about putting toys and games away right after they are played with doesn’t hurt either.
