Organize IT

You come home from work or a long day out shopping. Your hands and pockets are full of coins, keys and shopping bags. Where do you put them? If you don’t have a landing strip, then you probably leave them at the first bit of space you come across, whether it be chucked on the floor, left on the dining table or put on the kitchen top. But none of these places are practical because they are only temporary. Remember the golden de-clutter rule – a place for everything and everything in it’s place, and that includes items like your wallet and your phone.

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Welcome to the latest post in of my popular series taking the Clutter 101 principles of organizing and de-cluttering your home and applying them to individual rooms in your home. In this post I will cover the kitchen. Because this is where we cook, make meals and in many occasions sit down to eat, it’s typically the busiest room in the house. All the food and dirty dishes means it needs to be regularly cleaned and maintained too. With all this in mind it is important that we don’t get distracted by unnecessary clutter. In this guide I will discuss ideas on how to keep your kitchen organized.

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Welcome to another post in my Clutter 101 series, and the second post focusing on dealing with individual rooms around the house. This time it is the turn of the bathoom. Most of the focus on this room typically revolves around keeping it hygienic and clean. It’s the one place in the home you can lock yourself away from the world and pamper yourself. But it can also be very hectic, with the morning rush to get the family ready for school and work being a common concern. With that in mind it’s doubly important to keep it organized and de-cluttered and that’s what I will cover in this post.

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This is the first in a number of posts where I will take all the learnings from previous Clutter 101 posts regarding de-cluttering and organizing and apply them to specific rooms in your home. Firstly, I will focus on the bedroom. With so much clothing and personal belongings often stored here it can be a hotbed of clutter and disorganization so I will give some specifict tips on how you can create more space and use existing storage more efficiently.

After I came back from holiday I had the undesirable task of unpacking everything, washing all the clothes and just generally putting stuff away (in fact I’m still doing it now, a week later). Living in an apartment, space is at a premium, and because suitcases are pretty bulky and hefty things, the only practical space for them is under the bed. It’s hardly the most efficient use of space however…