Establishing A Home Organization System

A home organization system is a set of strategies and tools used to create a functional and efficient living space. A home organization system can involve organizing and storing items in a way that makes them easy to access and use, as well as creating systems for managing tasks and responsibilities.

Some common elements of a home organization system include:

* Sorting and decluttering: Removing unnecessary or unused items from your home to create more space and minimize clutter.

* Designating storage areas: Identifying specific areas or containers for storing different types of items, such as clothing, household supplies, or paperwork.

* Labeling: Using labels or tags to clearly identify the contents of storage areas and make it easier to find items.

* Creating routines: Establishing routines for tasks such as cleaning, laundry, and paying bills to help keep your home running smoothly.

* Using organizing tools: Utilizing tools such as bins, baskets, shelves, and drawer organizers to keep items organized and easily accessible.

Implementing a home organization system can help you create a more efficient and functional living space, as well as reduce stress and improve your overall quality of life. 

Several Ideas For Decorative Uses For A Pretty Cake Stand

A pretty cake stand can be a versatile and decorative addition to any room in your house. Here are a few ideas for decorative uses for a cake stand:

1. Centerpiece: Use a cake stand as a centerpiece for a table, you can use it for fruit, flowers, candles or other decorations.
2. Dessert display: Use a cake stand to display desserts such as cupcakes, cookies, or pastries.
3. Display for collectibles: Use a cake stand to display small collectibles such as figurines, vases, or other decorative items.
4. Vanity decor: Use a cake stand in a bathroom to hold soap, perfumes, or other vanity items.
5. Plant stand: Use a cake stand to elevate a small plant or succulent, it will create a beautiful display.
6. Jewelry holder: Use a cake stand to hold and display your jewelry, it's a great way to keep it organized and easy to see.
7. Buffet table: Use a cake stand as a risers on a buffet table to add height and interest to your display.
8. Bookshelf: Use a cake stand as a bookshelf, place a few of your favorite books on it, it can be a unique way to display them.
9. Tea Party: Use a cake stand to serve tea and snacks during a tea party, it will add elegance and charm.
10. Wedding display: Use a cake stand to display a wedding cake or as a risers for wedding favors.

It's important to keep in mind that these are just a few ideas and you can come up with your own ways to use a pretty cake stand. The possibilities are endless and it's a great way to add a touch of elegance and charm to your home decor. 

How to Create a Multi-Purpose Room in Your House for Your Family

Creating a multi-purpose room in your house can be a great way to make the most of your space and provide a versatile area for your family to use. Here are a few steps you can take to create a multi-purpose room in your home:

1. Define the room's purpose: The first step in creating a multi-purpose room is to decide what you want the room to be used for. Some popular options include a home office, playroom, guest room, or workout room. Once you know what you want the room to be used for, you can start planning the layout and design.
2. Choose a location: The location of the room will be important when deciding what furniture and decor to use. If it's a guest room you can place it near the entrance, if it's an office/study you may want it near the natural light source.
3. Create a flexible layout: Multi-purpose rooms are often small in size, so it's important to create a flexible layout that can accommodate different activities. Look for furniture that can be easily moved or rearranged, and consider using storage solutions such as shelves and cabinets to keep clutter out of sight.
4. Use furniture that serves multiple purposes: Look for furniture that can serve multiple purposes, such as a daybed or futon that can be used as a sofa during the day and a bed at night, or a desk that can be folded away when not in use.
5. Add storage: Good storage solutions will be key for keeping the room organized and clutter-free. Look for storage that can be easily accessed, and consider using storage solutions such as shelves and cabinets to keep clutter out of sight.
6. Decorate with a theme: To tie it all together and make the room feel like a cohesive space, decorate it with a theme or style that suits the room's purpose.

Finally, make sure to keep the room comfortable and well-lit so that it feels inviting and can be used throughout the day and evening.

What Are The Benefits of Decluttering and Organizing Your House?

 

I have a question for everyone reading my blog today. What is clutter?

• Clutter is anything in your home or office that does not serve a purpose or function in your life anymore.
• Clutter may include items in your home that are broken or nonfunctional.
• Clutter may be material items in your home that you do not need or love.
• Clutter could also include unnecessary duplicate items in your home.
• You may be surprised to realize that having too many storage containers that aren't actually being used in your home may add to your existing clutter problem. That is the main reason it may be suggested that you declutter your home "first." Then, it should be easy to figure out exactly how many storage boxes to buy and specific sizes you may need.
• Clutter could also consist of accumulated items of trash to be thrown away or removed in an appropriate manner. 

Now that we know what clutter is, why do you think our homes accumulate clutter?

• Clutter may be caused be delayed decisions.
• You haven't taken the time to decide on appropriate areas to keep your specific items in your home.
• Procrastination: maybe you feel overwhelmed about organizing or decluttering your house.
• You may be experiencing that frustrating "all or nothing" feeling about home organization. For example: you may think to yourself, "I will never have enough time to get my organizing projects done. There is just too much to do. So, why should I even start?"
• Maybe, you have a very busy family schedule and you haven't been using a good weekly/monthly planner for routine chores/tasks in the home.
• Possibly, the family doesn't realize your home organization goals and you may get easily distracted with many interruptions throughout the day. It may be very helpful for you to communicate your short-term and long-term organizing goals with your family. You may decide to have family members participate in your plan. This may be especially important in helping to keep your home maintained after you have everything set up the way you like it.
• You may have felt the lack of energy or motivation to complete organizing projects in the past.
• Often times, a major lifestyle change may cause a change in the normal flow of organization in your home. Here are a few examples: a birth or a death in the family, new marriage or a divorce, job relocation, or health problems.

How can clutter affect your life in a negative way?

• Clutter can take up lots of extra space in a home. Think of how much more additional space you may have available after you get rid of any unnecessary clutter.
• You may be using a lot of your valuable time to take care of all the material things in your house.
• You could be spending extra money for duplicate items that you have been purchasing because you haven't been able to find the things that you were looking for in your house.
• Many people say they lack energy because they are tired of maintaining all the material things they have accumulated over the years.
• They don't have enough time to take good care of themselves or to enjoy their favorite hobbies and outlets.

What are the positive benefits of home organization and decluttering your house?

• You will be able to focus on things that you enjoy, such as: exercise, hobbies, good nutrition, etc.
• You may find that you have more time to spend with family and friends.
• Hopefully, you won't have the need to purchase unnecessary items because you will have easy access to your items and be able to find everything when you need it. You will learn how to find "the right place for everything in your home."
• You may really enjoy the big bonus of having more space in your home once you get rid of your clutter.
• An organized house, free of clutter, may help you save time when you need to do your routine daily/weekly household chores.
• I find that I focus and concentrate better and feel more productive and less stress with work when my house and office are organized.
• You may increase your confidence to invite your friends over to your home again.

Declutter Your Closet

When it comes to clothing, most of us have far more than we really need. If you take a good, honest look through your closet, you will find that you have much more than you use. In fact, most people wear only a small percentage of their clothing over and over, and neglect the rest.

Why You Should Declutter Clothing

Having too much of anything takes up not only physical space in your home, but mental space as well. When you are looking for something to wear, having too much clothing makes you feel like you are searching through endless piles of stuff and yet still cannot find something suitable. When you declutter, you will be able to quickly find outfits that you love. This will save you time, and keep your stress levels low.

How Does It Make You Feel and Look?

As you are sorting through your clothing, think about how the item makes you feel. Do you look at it and feel excited to wear it? When it is on your body, does it make you feel and appear attractive and ready to take on the world?

Clothing is much more than a cover. It is a part of who you are, and how you feel in it is the image of yourself that you are presenting to the world. Keep only the clothing that makes you feel confident, and causes you to be proud of who you are.

Are You Keeping It Out of Obligation?

Many of us are harbouring clothing out of guilt, given to us by well-meaning friends and family. Unless someone knows your taste 100% of the time, clothing generally does not make an appropriate gift. Too often we are given an item and then feel stuck with it for an undisclosed amount of time, and we never quite feel right getting rid of it.

If you are keeping clothing you hate just because you feel loyal to the person who gave it to you, go ahead and get rid of it. This will make room for items you love, and you won’t feel guilt every time you glance at it, knowing that it hasn’t been worn and will probably never be.

Have You Worn It in the Past Year?

A good rule of thumb is that anything not worn in the past year you may decide to let go. The reason for the rule of a year is because certain items of clothing and accessories have particular yearly events that they are appropriate for, and it’s ok to keep a few of those special items.

Also, many locations have seasons that are very distinct in temperature. You will have clothing that you don’t ever wear in summer, but faithfully make use of every winter… or vice versa. If you didn’t wear it in the past year’s appropriate season, it is likely that this item is no longer needed, or that it no longer flatters who you have become.

Once you have made choices about what to get rid of, you can throw away any damaged items, sell a few select items and give away the rest to those in need. Organize what is left, and you will see what a difference it makes in your life when you have in your closet only what you need and love wearing. Enjoy your new organized closet and never search for hours for a lost item again.

Where to Find Ideas for Home Organization

As you make plans to organize and declutter your home, you will probably want to do as much research as possible in order to get an idea of what you like. By looking at several different places for inspiration, you will get clear ideas of what you do and do not like.

By looking extensively and collecting ideas, you will have enough information to decide on an appropriate way to manage the mess in your home, and create a new space you love.

Pinterest

Pinterest is a great place online to collect a variety of ideas on any topic, and home organization is one of them. Simply do a search for a variety of phrases, such as “home organization”, “decluttering tips” or “tidy home hacks” and you will find endless ideas on how to get and keep your home in an amazing state of orderliness.

The sky is the limit, and with this website you can create folders on your account with titles that help you to find the information easily at a later time.

Houzz

Houzz is a fun website where you can be inspired by looking at beautiful homes. Sometimes by viewing someone else’s organized spaces, you can glean ideas that will amaze you and help you to create your own organization solutions. Save pictures to folders that you create in order to categorize the ideas. You can even find out where certain items and accessories that you see on the website can be bought.

Internet

The internet is a wide-open place, and you can use this tool to collect ideas from around the world to help you with your organization journey. Google the words of absolutely anything you are looking for, and then view photos and find various websites that will satisfy your creative drive, while helping you organize your own home.

Save screenshots of inspirational and helpful photos in a folder you create on your desktop for this task, or print them out and make a binder if you are a hands-on type of individual.

Magazines

There are a variety of magazines that are dedicated to beautiful homes and home organization. Use these magazines as a visual aid to inspire you and add to your knowledge about how to get and stay organized. Create a binder and add the articles and photos that inspire you the most.

Friends

Friends can be a great source of inspiration in your home organization project. When you are visiting a friend in their home and you notice that they seem to have a special talent for organization, ask them for tips. Individuals who are organized know how great it feels to stay on top of their day-to-day tasks, and are generally more than happy to help anyone else get to the same place.

Home organization can seem overwhelming. Fortunately, the world we live in is full of great ideas to help you get to a place where you can feel like you are not only surviving but thriving in this area. Use these resources to take you from overwhelmed to feeling great about your organizational skills.

What Area of Your House Needs Organization?

I would like you to think of what area of your house has been causing you the most frustration?

Some examples:

• Is it your cluttered kitchen or bathroom cabinets?
• Could it be your desk with piles of papers?
• Maybe your family room is not being used for it's fullest potential because clutter is taking up a lot of space.
• Can you relax in your bedroom area, or do you have disorganization with clothes and books lying around?
• Do you have unfolded clothes in laundry baskets sitting in your family room on the couch?
• Is it taking you too long to cook and prepare family meals because you can't find what you need inside of your disorganized, cluttered kitchen cabinets?
• Do you get frustrated just thinking about cleaning and maintaining the bathroom every week because you haven't figured out the appropriate storage for that area?
• Do you dislike walking into your basement because you have been storing so much of what you have accumulated throughout the years in boxes downstairs?
• Can you park your cars in your garage, or do you use that area to store extra boxes of items that you need to sort through?
• Does it look nice around the entrance of your front or back door, or do you have shoes, mail, magazines or pet supplies lying around?

I think you probably get the picture. I believe that you will begin to easily see a huge positive difference in even one small area in your home that you declutter. Hopefully, this will get you motivated to continue with your future home organizational plans!

After reading many of my examples, you may decide to start in the one area of your home that causes you the most frustration.

You will want to begin by planning your organizing or decluttering project.

Plan an appropriate amount of time for your individual projects. Four hours may be a great amount of time, but even if you have an hour or 30 minutes, you may accomplish a decent amount of work. 

After you become accustomed to decluttering and organizing your house, you may easily find that even 15 minutes a day may be helpful if you are busy.

Get your supplies ready such as: garbage bags, boxes for sorting, labels, etc. You will want to wait until you declutter to buy specific storage containers that you will need to use on a long-term basis.

It is helpful to decide in advance what you want to do with any items that you definitely decide to get rid of for sure. Some examples: local charity, local consignment store, junk removal service or a future yard sale. 

It is helpful to have items removed quickly after your organizing project is completed. It is always a good idea to completely finish one project before you begin another.

Remember to stick with one area that you are working on and do not jump into other rooms at the same time. Focus on one project at time to increase your efficiency.

Some people enjoy working with an accountable friend and they find that method to be motivating.

Others may have a need or desire to hire a Professional Organizer to help them develop specific organizing systems and storage solutions.

Here are a few stumbling blocks or excuses that people may commonly use when deciding on what to get rid of in their homes.

• People sometimes want to hold onto things because they think "they may need those items someday."  I am a strong believer that it actually becomes much easier and quicker to access items in your home after you get rid of what you don't use or want anymore.
• Many times, people just do not know what to keep, such as paperwork. I am planning on developing my Paper Management Workshop possibly in the future to discuss this separate topic. For now, here are a few examples of purposes for keeping paper: taxes, legal certificates/proof, property documents, legal agreements, receipts/claims.
• You may feel guilty about getting rid of an item that was given to you originally as a gift. However, it is important to remember that the "act of giving" is the factor involved. If you definitely do not like the item or need it, please don't feel guilty.
• We often save certain objects for sentimental reasons. An item may be associated with an familiar memory. You can decide to even take a picture of the object and keep that to help preserve the memory. One big excuse that people use to hold onto their "stuff" is because they paid decent money for an item. Please decide if the item is useful for your life today. You may decide to have a yard sale or even use a local consignment shop as an option.

Here are some excellent organizing principles for you.

• When you purchase a new item in a certain category, you may decide to donate or sell another item that you already have in that category. This is sometimes referred to as "the one in - one out" principle. So, you won't have a tendency to accumulate too much again in the future.
• Before you decide to buy a new item for your home, try to visualize where it will " live" or be placed in your home. If you can't figure that out, it may be better to hold off on the purchase at this time, if possible. 
• Buy containers after you declutter, so you know exactly how many you will need and the correct sizes.
• You can label your containers with name of the contents, so you and your family will be able to quickly find your items when needed.
• Focus on one specific area when you are organizing your home. If you happen to find certain items that belong in another room, you can collect them in a separate box and put them back where they belong when you are finished with your organizing project. This will save you some time and keep you from getting distracted.
• Finally, make sure you have a maintenance plan to keep your house organized.

Organizing Tips to Keep Your House Tidy Everyday

Photo by Paige Cody on Unsplash

Does this happen to you? Do you waste precious time trying to find what you’re looking for? Are you sometimes late for work because you can’t find your car keys? Setting up some useful organizing systems throughout your home can make your everyday routine run smoothly and efficiently. These tips about keeping your home orderly will help you to save time and keep you more organized and productive. 

Get into the good habit of keeping your items in a place that makes sense. For example, you can use a decorative basket or two on a table by your entryway to keep your outgoing mail, school books or book-bags that are needed for the next day after the homework is done. One basket could be used just for hats, scarves and gloves during the winter months. You can also keep your car keys in a dish by the front door. It is nice to have a coat rack and umbrella holder by the entrance too. This will save you time in the morning because you won’t be running around trying to gather what you need for the day.

Many pet owners have a cute area by their front or back door organized with a special basket to hold their dog’s supplies, such as their lease, doggy coat and a few treats.

I like to set up a central command center near the kitchen on my desk to keep my everyday daily planner notebook, pens, pencils and extra paper. I keep a large calendar on my desk to write down all appointments and special events, including upcoming holiday plans. 

Along with my kitchen command center, I have a bill paying set-up that includes a special caddy with a handle to hold my envelopes, stamps, tape, address book and calculator. Some people use a small rolling cart for their mail/bill paying supplies and daily planners, etc. A rolling cart can be conveniently moved around to different areas of the house as needed. 

I like to use small rolling carts for my frequently used baking supplies in my pantry/kitchen area. Carts can also come in handy to store excess pantry goods, if you have an overflow. A cute little decorative cart could be used to display a nice variety of your coffee and tea items near your dining room for entertaining. If you have some extra space in your bathroom, you could use a pretty rolling cart to display/store your favorite beauty essentials, such as cosmetic supplies and hair curling sets, etc.

It is great to find the correct “home” or place for your all of your items. When you are finished using something, it will become easy for you to put the item back in the proper storage space when you are done. This is a good practice for every room in your house. It is often easier to straighten up as you go, instead of spending hours over your weekend off cleaning the whole house. 

You can pick up the newspapers and magazines when you are done reading them and put them in your recycle bin instead of leaving them on the coffee table. It is a great habit to load the dishwasher after every meal instead of just once a day after dinner. 

Did you ever bring home a real big order of groceries and end up leaving several of the canned and boxed items in the grocery bags on your kitchen table for the next day or two until you had more time to put everything away? Get into the good habit of putting all of your groceries away rather than leaving them on the kitchen table for a few days. How can you keep track of what food you do or don’t have if last week’s groceries are still in the bags? If things are neat and tidy in your kitchen area, it becomes a pleasant environment to enjoy a meal instead of a constant reminder of projects or jobs that need to be done.

Another area that is important to keep clean and organized on a daily basis is the bathroom. Keep your bathroom tidy everyday. You can wipe the sink and vanity after you wash your face or use your cosmetics. Then you can put away your toiletries and hair products. Doing these small things routinely as you go everyday keeps the bathroom cleaner, especially if you have unexpected guests visit at any time. 

One easy way to keep your bedroom looking fresh and nice is to make your bed every morning and hang up any clean clothes that might be lying around. Remember to keep your closets organized. If your closet is overflowing with clothes, you can’t see what you have. You can keep out of season clothes in the spare bedroom closet or in a protective storage system. Keep shoes in boxes or organized on shoe racks. It would be nice to donate any clothing that no longer fits or if you haven’t worn the items in the past season. There are probably many people who would be grateful to use the clothes.

Remember to finish one project before starting another. I have a neighbor who has started to clean and organize their basement, but never finished the project and is now working on their garage. Their house is constantly in a state of disarray and they never manage to get any project completed because it’s too overwhelming and stressful.

In summary, just by taking these small steps every day to keep your house organized will help your home to stay clutter-free and tidy. This should also help you to be less stressed and more productive.

Lastly, you may really enjoy this great video titled “How Erin Uses the Wall Organization Center"

Learn more: "Wall Organization Center 101" at affiliate link http://shrsl.com/1w387 

What Cluttered Area in Your House Causes the Most Frustration?

• Is it your cluttered kitchen or bathroom cabinets?

• Could it be your desk with piles of papers?

• Maybe your family room is not being used for it's fullest potential because clutter is taking up a lot of space.

• Can you relax in your bedroom area, or do you have disorganization with clothes and books lying around?

• Do you have unfolded clothes in laundry baskets sitting in your family room on the couch?

• Is it taking you too long to cook and prepare family meals because you can't find what you need inside of your disorganized, cluttered kitchen cabinets?

• Do you get frustrated just thinking about cleaning and maintaining the bathroom every week because you haven't figured out the appropriate storage for that area?

• Do you dislike walking into your basement because you have been storing so much of what you have accumulated throughout the years in boxes downstairs?

• Can you park your cars in your garage, or do you use that area to store extra boxes of items that you need to sort through?

• Does it look nice around the entrance of your front or back door, or do you have shoes, mail, magazines, or pet supplies lying around?

I think you probably get the picture. I believe that you will begin to easily see a huge positive difference in even one small area in your home that you declutter. Hopefully, this will get you motivated to continue with your future home organizational plans!

After reading many of my examples, you any decide to start in the one area of your home that causes you the most frustration.

You will want to begin by planning your organizing or decluttering project.

Plan an appropriate amount of time for your individual projects. Four hours may be a great amount of time, but even if you have an hour or 30 minutes, you may accomplish a decent amount of work. 

After you become accustomed to decluttering and organizing your house, you may easily find that even 15 minutes a day may be helpful if you are busy.

Get your supplies ready, such as: garbage bags, boxes for sorting, labels, etc. You will want to wait until you declutter to buy specific storage containers that you will need to use on a long-term basis.

It is helpful to decide in advance what you want to do with any items that you definitely decide to get rid of for sure. Some examples: local charity, local consignment store, junk removal service, or a future yard sale. 

It is helpful to have items removed quickly after your organizing project is completed. It is always a good idea to completely finish one project before you begin another.

Remember to stick with one area that you are working on and do not jump into other rooms at the same time. Focus on one project at time to increase your efficiency.

Some people enjoy working with an accountable friend and they find that method to be motivating.

Others may have a need or desire to hire a Professional Organizer to help them develop specific organizing systems and storage solutions.

Learn How to Organize Your Home

Everyone seems to have a really busy schedule and time is very valuable. When you know how to organize your home and your life, you can focus more easily on achieving your goals. Disorganization can create unnecssary stress. The good news is “you can learn to be organized”. I recently purchased an excellent book for getting organized. It is a step-by-step guide to help you create and maintain order in your home. 

You may want to check it out: Yes I Can Organize in 7 Simple Steps; An Empowering Guide To Home Organization. It is a great resource for helping you declutter and organize all areas of your home. Here are some benefits of the book:

• Easy to understand and enjoyable to read
• Contains outstanding information on home organization
• Helps you understand disorganization and the impact it can have on your life
• Teaches you how to take control of home organization and keep your house maintained and in order
• Contains worksheets specifically for home organization

Start today by creating a better and more organized tomorrow that will encourage you to relax and enjoy every moment of your life.

You can find out more about this book by clicking on this link: Yes I Can Organize in 7 Simple Steps; An Empowering Guide To Home Organization. The sooner you get started, the quicker you’ll see positive results. 

The Positive Benefits of Home Organization and Decluttering Your House

You will be able to focus on things that you enjoy, such as: exercise, hobbies, good nutrition, etc.

You may find that you have more time to spend with family and friends.

Hopefully, you won't have the need to purchase unnecessary items because you will have easy access to your items and be able to find everything when you need it. You will learn how to find "the right place for everything in your home."

You may really enjoy the big bonus of having more space in your home once you get rid of your clutter.

An organized house, free of clutter, may help you save time when you need to do your routine daily/weekly household chores.

I find that I focus and concentrate better and feel more productive and less stress with work when my house and office are organized.

You may increase your confidence to invite your friends over to your home again.

Organizing and Decluttering the Kitchen

Are you ready to read about some helpful ideas on the subject of organizing and decluttering the kitchen, beginning with the kitchen cabinets? Most people have a very busy everyday schedule and it is so easy for our kitchen cabinets to become somewhat disorganized at times. 

I find that it saves me a great deal of time and effort when my kitchen cabinets are neat and organized. I can prepare my family meals more efficiently and I happen to enjoy cooking a little more when my kitchen is decluttered. So, if your kitchen needs a bit more organization for you to function well on an everyday basis, you may truly enjoy the following information. Let's declutter and organize some kitchen cabinets.

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It may be a good possibility that you recently found my organizing blog while searching online for home organizing ideas in general or looking for great methods to declutter a home. A common theme to discuss today would include several ideas about organizing and decluttering the kitchen cabinets. I will try to easily explain some helpful steps that I practice when I am cleaning out kitchen cupboards.
 
However, before I start describing my method of decluttering kitchen cabinets, I will tell you about my sincere interest in home organization and that is the main reason that I began my blog, which I truly enjoy very much.
 
I have a great passion for organizing and decluttering. I have been reading a variety of informative books on the subject and I also have been viewing many helpful videos about organizing the house. You may find it fun and very interesting to check out my organizing/declutter book selection on my blog.  

After reading and researching lots of great ideas and techniques for organizing a house, I came to my own conclusion that I don't actually think there is just one perfect way to organize a house. There are many steps and methods that everyone can choose according to what they feel comfortable with for their personal lifestyle. 

When I was researching everything that I could find about organization, I came across some useful items that could very well come in handy when decluttering and organizing the house. 

You may wish to check out a nice variety of organization and storage products, along with the following organizing items for the home. Now, let's get back to talking about cleaning out some kitchen cabinets to make life a little easier while working in your kitchen everyday. It is one place in particular that many moms need to spend a lot of time on a routine basis, so you might as well make that time less stressful and more enjoyable.

I try to begin by doing one kitchen cabinet shelf at a time and just focus and concentrate on that one specific task. Personally, I begin by making a clean area on my kitchen countertop or a nearby kitchen table to place all the items from the shelf as I remove them, so I can easily sort through everything from that one shelf. For example, as you are sorting through the items, you may find that you have way too many items in one specific category.

In the photo below you will notice there are many bottles. If you happen to find out that you have too many items for one category, such as bottles or cups and saucers, you may decide to donate some items to your favorite local charity. The items for donation can be placed in a separate cardboard box and labeled for donation. I usually try to take my donation boxes to the charity or make arrangements for them to pick up the items within a short time period after I am done with my organizing project, so the boxes for donation don't sit around my house very long and make even more clutter. 

 Lots of bottles:

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Now, some people may even choose to clear out a larger area for sorting. I always like to make sure my sorting area is a very clean, flat surface. Below is just a photo of sorting kitchen clutter.  

During the sorting process, you may also want to check for any items that you feel you no longer want or need anymore, in addition to any items that are broken or don't work anymore. I sort through everything and neatly place "like" items into categories before thinking about putting things back onto the shelf again.

Larger sorting area:

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Next, after I sort through my items, I clean the shelf before I neatly place the items where I want them to be in the cabinet. I place all the "like" items that I decided to keep together onto the shelf.

I make a habit of keeping bigger, heavier objects on my bottom shelves. I also keep items that I don't use on a regular basis on a bottom shelf. I place most of the kitchen items that I frequently use in an appropriate, safe area where I have easy access to them.

For example, I keep my dinner plates and bowls on a shelf that is very easy to access in my kitchen. I keep my water glasses on a separate shelf, and also my small collection of coffee mugs are located on a separate shelf in my kitchen. I have my large, heavy mixer machine on my bottom shelf. I also have my heavy cast irons pots and pans on a lower shelf too. 

I happen to keep some of my vitamin supplements inside my kitchen cabinets. I use a clear plastic bin without the lid to hold similar vitamin categories together and then I neatly label the plastic bins, so I can easily read what the contents are inside each bin. There are many useful bins and containers for storage and organinzing the kitchen. Below are just a few examples.

 

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Another example of organizational containers for the kitchen:

 

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You probably noticed that each of the containers are nicely labeled. There are many helpful organizational products for the pantry, as you can see below.

 

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Organized canisters below:

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Lazy susans for cans:

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A nice corner shelf:

 

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Great cabinet storage and organization for pans and more:

 

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And lots of modular containers that can be easily labeled:

 

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So, maybe if you remember the kitchen cabinet photo at the very beginning of this post, you can check out the organized view of the kitchen cabinets now.

 

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Additional view:

 

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You can see how kitchen organization with easy access can help a kitchen become very functional for the busy homemaker. I have even started to use clear containers for a lot of my food in the refrigerator and I label each container with the name of the contents and the proper date.

 

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I am even using lunch containers.

 

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I hope you enjoyed our discussion about organizing and decluttering the kitchen cabinets. Now, you may want to check out some wonderful books about the topic of planning and preparing meals.

 

Avoid Procrastination When Organizing the House

It is easy for many people to procrastinate about cleaning and organizing their homes. However, keep in mind that chronic disorganization may possibly lead to a chaotic lifestyle. 

It can be helpful to envision what you would like each room in your house to look like after it is organized. You can think of the important functional aspects of each room and how the family will utilize each room on a daily basis.

You can plan purposeful action goals to do small projects to be completed one at a time around the house. This may be a controllable way to successfully achieve your goals to organize and declutter the house. You can decide the steps that will need to be taken to get the organizing projects done.

You may feel inspired and motivated after you see the results of your efforts around the hose. If you focus on one organizing task at a time, you may be less likely to feel overwhelmed and get disappointed.

Small workable tasks may help you to reach your home organizing goals. Keep focused and stay motivated with your plan to declutter the house. Consistent efforts to organize your house may bring some very favorable results.

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