Clean your home clutter to enjoy more in 2013
This is my second part of blog on spring cleaning your home clutter. In the first part we saw how to clean stove and refrigerator. In this blog you will find some more cool tips organize your home without any hard work
Whether you're fighting clutter or looking for simple ways to stay organized, here are easy ways to make your home-and your life-into shape. Most of them I am using them in daily basis and find them very easy to do.
1. Chores with Rewards
Pair your chores with little rewards. Crank up your favourite music as you sort through things you need to give away. Pay your bills while you wait for a tray of cookies to bake. Iron your clothes in front of the TV.
2. Designated Area
Keep only the knick knacks you have room to display. Pick your favorite decorations to display in a designated area like a bookcase or a shelf and get rid of everything else that doesn't fit in that space.
3. Labeled boxes
Make your storage vertical. Organize your holiday decorations, bulk household products and little-used items into labeled boxes and stack them on sturdy shelves. That way you can find them easier when you need them.
4. Use Garage and Attic space
Turn your unused garage, attic and under stairs space into storage. Keep bigger seasonal items out of sight when they're not being used
5. Clothes Organization
Organize your clothes by the way you wear them. You can hang all your dress clothes in one part of your closet, stack all your casual clothes on your shelves and keep all your gym clothes in a drawer. Store all cardigans with matching slacks, blazers with skirts, rather than by type. Then return hangers to the closet so the hooks face out. Once you’ve worn a set, hang them the other way
6. Use Portable Container for supplies
Take your stuff where you use it. Craft supplies, tools, wrapping paper and bow .You don't always use these things in the same room of the house. Store them in a portable container and you can keep them organized everywhere you take them.
7. Clear Containers
Keep small things where you can see them. Organize toiletries, craft supplies, electronics cables and more in clear containers so you can find the things you need quickly.
8. Group Organization
Organize your things into families. Towels, washcloths and hand cloths. Cleaning supplies, sponges and rags. Envelopes, paper, labels and stamps. Group like things together so you can find everything you need for a project fast.
9. Stackable bins
Make it easy to get to the things you need. Organize your possessions in stackable bins so you can un-stack and restack and get to the things you need quickly.
10. Space-saving Containers
Store your things with matching containers. Even the biggest piles of clutter seem easier to sort through when everything is stored in matching, space-saving containers.
11. Remove out-of-season stuff
Wash or dry-clean your winter gear, then bag or box it and stash out of the way.
12. Mismatched Hangers
Irregular shapes hangers take up more space and the wire ones that dry cleaners use are hard on your clothes. Try a coordinated set.
13 Appliances
Machines that are broken or aren't used are just taking up space. If your Crock-Pot has a missing lid that you say you're going to replace someday, or you're keeping the bread maker just because it was a gift, get rid of it.
14 .Food containers
All your plastic storage items should have corresponding lids. If you don't have one or the other, it's a recycling item.
15 Pots and pans
If there isn't a lot of space in your kitchen, use a pot rack. If you have the space, hang them along the wall for fast access.
17 Knives
If you're short on counter space, consider the type of knife block that fits in a drawer.
18 Plastic bags
Everybody has a plastic bag full of other plastic bags. Use the ones you have for trash can liners, or take them back to the supermarket for recycling. Keep canvas shopping totes in the car so you don't accumulate more plastic bags. Mesh shopping bags roll up small enough to be kept in your handbag for unexpected trips to the market.
