Sarah W.Our home is where we go to rest and recuperate. Ideally, it is decorated and furnished to your liking, with suitable and practical furnishings that can help you relax and recover. While having the feng shui of your home to your liking is important, it is also crucially important that you have systems in place to reduce clutter and make it easier to clean up and keep things tidy in the long run. Having a decluttered, clear home helps you live more calmly, and to make your home a more relaxing, restorative place to live. After all, having your basic needs met when it comes to tidiness will make just about everything else in your life that much easier to handle. In order to do this correctly, you will have to incorporate some handy systems for maintaining a clean and orderly home. Here are some of the best organizational hacks for calmer living.
Heading Out? Time to Clean
The easiest way to make healthy, helpful habits is to make good choices routinely. That way, it is less of a hassle to remember, and make yourself do things that may not be enjoyable in the moment, but culminate in a system that helps you to improve your situation for an extended period of time and ultimately with less effort. Cleaning up your home — even for about 10-15 minutes — as you are leaving to do chores, hang out with friends, or do just about anything else, is just one of those activities you hope to make into a habit.
Best of all, this will also help you get ready to leave earlier than you otherwise would. Having an extra space, even of just a handful or two of minutes, to tidy up before you head out the door can help turn that frantic rush to leave into a more productive, and relaxing, exit ritual. Just prepared yourself a meal before heading out for an appointment? With a quick 10-15 minute tidy session, your kitchen will be clean and pristine when you get back. Just had trouble picking out an outfit, and had to remove some tops from hangars in the process? Put away your clothes and get your closet more organized in a short blast of activity before heading out. Before long, this habit will have helped make your clutter much more manageable.
Clutter Cabinets and Junk Drawers
Ever wonder where you should put things that don’t seem to fit in a specific category? That’s where clutter cabinets and junk drawers come in handy. Clutter cabinets and junk drawers are exactly what they sound like: a cabinet for placing odd bits of clutter, and a drawer where you place your proverbial junk. That spare pair of scissors, bits of sting, odd batteries, and just about anything else that seems to provide clutter and disjointed junk in other parts of your house can be put in a neat receptacle for other things of their ilk.
The joy of using a clutter cabinet or junk drawer is having an easy intermediate storage solution for things you are still deliberating organizationally. Maybe you are just not sure where you want to put spare parts for hobby projects, or some extra toys for your kids that are not currently in use, for example. Anything that is cluttering a room — or even a hallway — can be quickly put away and sorted out without too much fuss. This makes tidying up easier, and faster, in every room of your house.
Convenient Laundry
Your laundry schedule should also serve to declutter your house. If you find that your home is becoming inundated with dirty clothes, then it is likely a good time to do your laundry a bit more frequently. Pick up any dirty clothes around your place, and throw them in the washing machine. If this means you are doing laundry every few days — or even more often than that — it will still be well worth it to remove the mess.
Conclusion
Whether it’s firing up the washing machine more often, or making an effort to pick up your place before heading out, there are some great, simple tips and tricks you can apply to live a calmer, less cluttered, lifestyle. If you are interested in more articles like these, please check out our other blogs!
