What is the best way to get organized in your home where do you start?
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When it comes to organizing your home, I always advise people to start in their master bedroom. The reason for this is that most people want to make their home presentable for visitors, but ignore themselves, leaving their master bedroom for last and, quite often, it rarely or never gets any attention. Pamper yourself first. Your master bedroom is the last thing you see before you fall asleep at night and the first thing you see when you wake up the morning. If it is clean and organized you will feel refreshed and rejuvinated and ready to tackle the rest of the house.
The easiest way to keep any space organized is to keep it clutter free. The less stuff you have, the less stuff you have to clean.
Get yourself three boxes: one for trash, one for donations and one for items you are unsure about whether or not keep. Start filling the boxes with items laying around your home.
Once the trash box is full, immediately take it out to the curb. Once the donation box is full, make an inventory of its contents (for tax purposes) and immediately get it out of your house and take it to the charity of your choice.
I can almost guarantee that once you have the clutter removed from your home and you start to see the potential of what your house can look like, the decisions about the items in the unsure box will be a lot easier to make.
in the closets...makes room for stuff to be moved from the rooms
Start by getting rid of every thing that you do not need any more.
I'd start in the kitchen, and put everything away, in convenient spots, depending on the amount of usage. Then move to the bedrooms, especially the closets, and organize my clothing. After that the bathroom and my toiletries. By that time, everything should fall into place, depending on how it is used, and when it is needed.
Start in the most used areas of the house(for me, the kitchen and living room) and in the storage places. Once they are clean then you will be more likely to maintain them and you will feel like the more obscure places are worth the effort
go to the library and get the book ITS ALL TOO MUCH by peter walsh. he is on the tlc show clean sweep and is a professional organizer --- tells you how, step by step to get organized. its amazing.
First- think what u really need in it.- I mean trash all u do not need, u don't use or u can live without. - The less things u have - the easier to make your place organized. After u done with it - think again: did I left something I can live without? - and trash the rest. - Trust me, u still will have a lot of your pcs left, but to organize it will be a breese
Sort first. Make decisions as to what to toss, sell, donate, or keep and stick to it. Everything new that comes into the house must also be evaluated. Clutter happens because people don't make decisions.they just keep.
Start with the clutter sitting around. Either put it away or dispose of it if you don't need it. Then, every day, take 15 minutes before you go to bed to put things away. Then you can actually clean your home faster. Dust, sweep, vacuum, clean bathroom, clean kitchen. In between all of that, do the laundry. When laundry is done, put things away, either right away or before you go to bed, take about 1/2 hour to do that, (I'm doing laudry for four), then, you will be done. If your house is really cluttered, do one area of clutter at a time until you have conquered all. Then, treat yourself to something special. Once a week, do something just for yourself IF you have done something every day to keep house clean and neat. Make it your routine to do at least 15 minutes of putting things away every evening and you will stay organized and be able to quick clean when you have guests coming. Good Luck and stick to it!
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Tackle on room at a time.Start with removing stuff from the closet...
itemize things...*Donate, *Toss,*Keep etc... You can also store things neatly with storage totes under the bed,dressers etc...
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