Keeping Your Home Miraculously Clean Part:1

One of the main reasons we accumulate clutter is because all the stuff we have lying around doesn’t have anywhere better to be. Where do expect your stuff to go if you haven’t given it anywhere to belong! Of course, everything is piling up on your counters and conspicuous corners. You need to establish a place for everything to belong.  Shoes, jackets, mail, things that would come out of pockets, and miscellaneous things.

Have hooks and cubbies for Jackets, Coats, Shoes, and other things that live by the door and leave with you when you leave the house. The kind of storage you’ll need will depend on your daily activities. Then banish all other shoes and outerwear to rooms, closets, or whatever other designated organized space.

Build a system to deal with mail as it comes into the house. Mail has the ability to get super unmanageable, super quickly. The best way to do this is to sort the junk, fliers, packages, bills, and other mail worth looking through as soon as you bring it into the house. Recycle whatever you need to get rid of, get a small bin for whatever mail needs to be shredded (shred as soon as it gets full for cleanliness sake), and get a mail organizer and sort whatever’s left, tossing the nonsense and putting the keepers in an assigned spot.

For all the stuff you just don’t know what to do with, if you can’t figure out a category to put it into it might mean that you don’t need it, and it should go into the trash. If you’re sure you can’t throw it away or repurpose it than I suggest getting some sort of drawer organizer and making yourself a good old-fashioned junk drawer.  

To keep this system functioning I suggest you clear out your storage spaces once a month. I’m not saying to toss out everything or completely reorganize every month, that would be ridiculous and annoying. Just move anything that doesn’t particularly belong and put them where they actually belong, instead of letting it clutter up the wrong space.