I have challenged myself to write a post every day for the month of February. I found a list of prompts from The Sway that I’ll be using so ya’ll can learn a little bit more about me and my blog. Today the prompt is….
SHARE YOUR 5 BEST ORGANIZATION TIPS
Picture me walking around my cluttered house yelling, “EVERYTHING HAS ITS PLACE!” Whenever I’m in a cleaning mood (company coming, dust bunnies large enough to have personalities, feet sticking to unmopped floors) my kids run and hide. Because I hate cleaning and picking up the house, I try to make it as painless as possible for everyone involved.
Having a large family, our house sometimes feels like it’s buried under pounds and pounds of clutter ~ clothes, shoes, toys, snack wrappers, and don’t forget the dog toys! Here are some of my organizational tips that we use in our home.
#1 SHOE STORAGE
We’ve taught our kids to take their shoes off before coming into the house so we have a basket shelf unit in the garage with a basket for each of the kids’ shoes. We clean them out frequently of too small shoes or out of date shoes.
#2 CLOSET STORAGE
When we renovated our master bedroom closet we had a whole side of the closet empty so we bought large baskets and label tags and organized scarves, gloves/mittens, gift wrap and bows, hats, hangers, and purses. Every time I walk into the closet, the baskets look so neat. My OCD at work!!
#3 JEWELRY STORAGE
As part of our master bedroom renovation, I needed a place to organize all my jewelry. I found an armoire/entertainment center at the ReStore so I reconfigured some of the shelves, painted the cabinet a pretty green and voila…a new jewelry storage cabinet.
#4 LAUNDRY HAMPERS
When we renovated our laundry room, I wanted the kids to separate their own laundry so I found this laundry hamper with three separate bags for whites, colors, and stained clothes. The system works perfectly!
#5 PHOTO ALBUM STORAGE
I love pictures!!! I love organizing pictures! I love scrapbooking and journaling and doing photo books online! I love everything about organizing pictures. Needless to say, I have a lot of photo albums and photo books. That’s why, when we built our reading nook in our master bedroom, I wanted a place to store some of our photo albums. I love how it ended up!
I have to admit to y’all, I get excited about decluttering, organizing, making things run smoothly. This post was fun for me to write. Do you like organizing your spaces? Tell me what your top 5 organization ideas are in the comments.
The prompt for tomorrow is “Groundhog Day! Did you see your shadow when you walked outside this morning?” Come back and see!!
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Have a great Friday!
Love y’all,
Linda
