How do you arrange your belongings to keep your place in order ?
Question:this question is from a messy person (you know the ones with clothes books papers discs and other undescribable things all over the place) to everyone who has their stuff in order. How do you do that?
any system of arranging things will be deeply appreciated.
Answers:
Get boxes you can put in the garage with things you don't use that often, then label each box, telling what the contents are.
Do one room at a time. Put eveything in a big pile on the floor then wipe down all the shelves and boxes you are going to use.
Go through the big pile of rubbish. Be ruthless. Throw away (shred or burn) anything that you really don't need any more but keep anything for tax purposes, addresses, letters etc.
Devise a filing system. All my personal admin goes into alphabetical files (under bank statements, car stuff etc) and all guarantees go into a separate file in aphabetical order. That way if you need to lay your hands on an invoice or see if something is still under guarantee, you can find out easily.
Into one pile put all the things you think you could sell at a car boot sale and into another, all the things you can take to a charity shop. Do you really need that old Communards cassette tape? The hideous toy bunny with mould on its ears? The batwing jumper you bought in a fit of panic 22 years ago?
Once everything is sorted, put things neatly onto shelves, vacuum the floor and move to the next room. Don't expect to do it all in a day and don't get distracted. I guarantee that you will feel much better after just the first room.
Get rid of anything you haven't used in the past 12 months. Chances are you'll never use it, if it's been that long. For the stuff you really want to keep store things closest to their point of use.
A bookcase near your favorite reading chair for books and magazines. Your dishes in the cupboard closest to the dishwasher. Your pans in the cupboard closest to the stove. Just think about where you're most likely to use and item and find a good place near there to store it.
The key to having a decluttered place is to have a "home" for everything that's convenient and easy for you to use and ALWAYS put things away as soon as you're done using them.
And, put a waste basket in every room so you're not tempted to let things pile up that you know you don't want to keep!
Junk mail is a huge problem for most of us because we get so darned MUCH. I toss mine in my dumpster on my way in from the mailbox and I keep a wastebasket next to my desk.
i am a neat freak. My fiance is not so i got him organised by giving him a filing system that works for him.
i started with his closet and he purged alot of clothes that he didnt wear anymore. we then organised his closet by items:jeans,hoodies, dress shirts, jerseys, so on and so forth.
His bathroom was my next feat: i bough him plastic bins that can easily be stashed under the sink. his computer area was next and i got him a set of those plastic drawers and a file box. the drawers hide the mess of random papers. i labelled them with masking tape each drawer has its own job. one is for c.d.'s and usb cables, another is for work related paper, another for pens and miscellanious office stuff, and so on. most importantly though is the practice of if you are done using it put it back right away.
First you need to get your tools in order. Three boxes, black marker, garbage bags, and dust rag. Label the boxes. One for giveaway, one for put away and one for trash. Start at the door and work your way around the room. Put your stuff in the appropriate box. As soon as the box is full, put it where it goes. Put "giveaway" in your car to donate. Put "putaway" things where they go. If you don't have a place where they go put them where you think they should go. Take the trash out and start with three more boxes. This clears clutter and before you know it everything will have a place and be organized. You can't organize clutter. Check out www.flylady.net !
1. messy is typically based on your attitude. You need to clean up after anything you do rather immediate when you are completed.
2. another function of messiness is too much stuff in too small of a place. People refer to this as a pack rat. If this is your case, either move into a large place, or get rid of stuff. The best way to get rid of stuff is to get a garbage bag and fill it full of "cheap stuff and I buy new if needed". Give it to a local school or church for their fund raising or just throw it out.
Begin in one corner and sort by what you want to keep, what you want to donate to charity and what you will toss. Once you begin it will look so much better, that you will be able to keep moving on.
Everything has to have a home, you have to make separate homes for separate things etc.like filing, cd's go in one place, letters in another.then just keep everything at right angles. It makes such a lovely difference I love organising my sh*t!
There are times you just have to get rid of stuff you don't use anymore (except for antiques) so you can buy more stuff. I put things in boxes and store them away. I mark the boxes and every few years I go thru them and get rid of stuff I know I will never use again. Every ten years a person seems to change, so every ten years you can go dump stuff that you for certain have outgrown mentally and emotionally. For clothes it's three years since styles have changed and we have grown or grown up.
I think of it this way. If I had to move tomorrow what could I throw out that I don't have to pay for it being stored. That it would cost me precious money to store it when I don't really need it. And that includes furniture.
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