Get Organized at Home (part 1)

Home organization can be a daunting task.  With toys everywhere, meals to cook, and kids to get to school getting organized at home isn’t always easy.

Here are some ideas to help you get organized at home

Easy home organizing tips to help you create the peaceful yet child friendly home you’ve been dreaming of. 

Before starting you should make a plan of what needs to be done.  Go through each room and identify what room needs extra storage, what type of storage, etc.  You should then invest in a few storage and space saving solutions.

Bookcases, under bed storage, hanging storage (for kid’s rooms), and shelves are all great space saving ideas for clutter free rooms.  You can find inexpensive and fun storage at Ikea, Target or Walmart.

This is also a good time to reconsider room layouts.  By organizing furniture and storage in a practical order it will be easier to stay organized and keep things tidy.  If the kids are constantly leaving clothes on their bedroom floors, give them each a laundry hamper.  They can keep it in a corner of their room or closet to make it easy and accessible for them to quickly throw the laundry in the basket. 

Color code their bedroom drawers or toy boxes to make it easier to put things away.  For example, cars and trains can go in a yellow box while legos go in the green box.  You can do this for the sock drawer or t-shirt drawer by placing a color sticker on each one or you can even label it with a picture of the items meant to go in there.

Little steps like this can make the overall task of staying organized a lot easier.

Once you have your storage sorted, you can start organizing by tackling one room at a time.  Make three piles, one for charity, one for keeping and one for the trash and be ruthless.  If you haven’t used it within the last month unless it has sentimental value then you can either store it or give it away.  Think of how much better you’ll feel coming home to a clutter free house.

Now that you’ve organized your home and all your storage solutions are in place, we’ll show you how to keep it that way in part 2 of Getting Organized at Home.