Clutter clean-up
Sometimes, even after a thorough cleaning, we're left with this nagging feeling that our homes are still messy. The culprit? Clutter! With a few simple tricks you can tackle the clutter and create a beautiful living space again.
Simple, sure-fire ways to clear clutter fast
Clothes closet chaos
The key to regaining control over your closet? The three R's - Remove, Reduce, Reorganise. Start by removing everything from your closet. Then, sort everything into four piles: trash, keepers, charitable donations and dry-clean or repair. Immediately throw away the trash pile and take the donations to a charitable organisation. Before putting your "keepers" back into the closet, decide whether you could use a few organisers – perhaps an extra shelf for folded sweaters or a plastic storage bin for hats and purses to help keep the floor clear.
Kitchen counter clutter
Kitchens are the meeting place of families so they often get cluttered up with huge range of unwieldy items like bills, dry cleaning receipts, school permission slips and photographs. One great way to wrestle back control of your kitchen is to put up a cork bulletin board or a kitchen blackboard on which you organise the paper and leave each other notes. For extra fun one weekend, buy some blackboard paint (available at hardware stores) and transform a kitchen wall or cubbyhole into a chalkboard.
Garden gear
The great thing about organising garden sheds is almost everything you need to help bring order is right there among the chaos. Unused plant pots can be used as pretty storage containers for hand tools and gloves. Very large pots or unused garbage cans make great containers for soil and fertilisers. Rakes, spades, hoes and hoses can be hung out of the way on the wall or even the ceiling of the shed.
Kid chaos
Invest in under-bed storage containers to keep socks and underwear handy or to store toys out of sight. Shoe bags thrown over the back of bedroom doors make fantastic toy storage compartments.
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