Home Organizing and Home Organization

Do you wish your house to be well organized, everything at the right place where it should be? A place where you don't have to spend hours looking for something, only to find it somewhere you had kept a few days back as your cabinets were full.Well,you can start right away. With a little organizer by your side you can arrange your house and make it a home.

Get rid of old stuff: First begin by taking out all the stuff. Write down in your organizer the stuff that are important, stuff you do not use often and stuff you do not need at all. You will be surprised to see a lot of stuff you had long forgotten as they were tucked somewhere inside. Put everything in all different boxes according to your needs and the box with the stuff you do not need, you can keep it in your garage to donate or you can even put up for sale. Donating useful but no longer needed items, getting rid of unwanted junk lets your personal spaces more welcoming instead of uninviting areas that make you want to run away. Once you've decided what you really want and need in each room, look around the room for areas of storage.
Tip! MAKE IT DOABLE. Choose home organization tasks that you can complete in short time spans.

Make space wherever you can: You need not worry if your house is small. Even small homes have space for storage. Under the bed, at the back of a closet, under the sink, all these spaces can be used to hold out-of-season clothes, toys, sports equipment, and unsightly trash bins. This way your bins will be out of plain sight, reducing both visual and floor space clutter. You can put up simple shelves as they are the most basic and useful forms of storage. Tucked into the back of a closet, at the end of a little used hallway, or in the corner of a child's bedroom, they provide an easy, classic clutter solution. You can hang a curtain if you want to cover them. You can enclose shelves and cupboards behind doors also. Instead of using an open one, make a bookcase with doors.
Tip! Karen Fritscher-Porter writes about home organization at http://www.EasyHomeOrganizing.

Right Furniture: You can expand your storage space choosing the right furniture. When you're shopping for furniture, think ahead to how you'll use the piece. An armoire offers lots of shelves, yet looks wonderful in almost any room of the house. A chest of drawers doesn't have to be large, but can provide more storage than a side table. A coffee table with drawers can hide things that a beautiful glass-topped table could. You can also use a bench with a hinged lid for the end of a bed or under a window, that way you use the space inside to store blankets, sheets, extra towels, out-of-season clothes, or toys.

Involve your kids: If you have children perhaps arranging their room would be the toughest task. You can involve them in organizing their room. Begin by getting out all the toys. They may quite enjoy it. Let him choose which toys he does not use anymore and put them in box to give away. Then select broken toys to toss or fix and store like items together like games, Lego's, doll clothes, and so on.

Arranging your house can be fun if you begin with a clear head and ask your family to help out. You can all treat yourselves after the job is done. Sometimes it may be difficult to give away old stuff you are attached to but you should know that they should go away, otherwise your stuff will only keep piling up and your house would never be organized. So, get your organizer and start now.
Tip! You can make these 10 clutter buster guidelines work for you to kick off your home organization goals with a little friendly competition involving immediate family members who live in your home. Have each family member do a walk through room-by-room in your home today with the list above.

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Three Myths of Home OrganizationThree Myths of Home Organization

There's a little misinformation about home organization and getting organized I need to clear up.

These are the myths of home organization...

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Myth #1: You have to be born organized to live organized, right?
Wrong! Some people mistakenly believe if you don't have organization in your blood, it's going to be nearly impossible to make the changes to how you live and enjoy the simplicity of being organized.
Tip! These are the myths of home organization..

For instance, my wife Megan definitely does not have organization in her blood. But she is a completely different person today than she was the day we got married. She's come over to my side and has proven to herself that being organized beats the heck out of living with the nasty side-effects of clutter.

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Myth #2: You have to spend a lot of money to have the right kind of storage.

That's definitely not the case.

First off, there are so many discount stores fighting for your business some of the latest organizing systems are being practically given away and certainly will get the job done.

Secondly, storage doesn't have to be fancy. In fact I use more items from discount craft stores and yard sales for storage than I do from the big name stores.

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Myth #3: It takes a lot of energy and motivation to get your home organized.

This is absolutely false.

It's really only a matter of changing the way you do things and thinking differently about the excess of material things people today own.

And you certainly don't have to take it all on at once. There are some simple rules you can start to live by that will make disorganization a thing of the past.
Tip! You can make these 10 clutter buster guidelines work for you to kick off your home organization goals with a little friendly competition involving immediate family members who live in your home. Have each family member do a walk through room-by-room in your home today with the list above.

Even if you are not the cause of the clutter and it's a spouse or kids living with you, you can all learn what it takes and just make a few simple changes to live a better life...being organized.

About the author: Greg Payette is the founder of DiscoverOrganization.com and created a simple, step by step Home Organizing System so you can remove clutter and cut stress out of your home. Visit DiscoverOrganization.com for more information and to sign up for a Free Home Organizing Mini Course