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How organised are you and your home?

I want to organise my life and home, we are moving later this year and i want to be ready to take my new organised life to the new house, i have a 8month old son as well so that means a lot more junk. I would be greatfull for any ideas or photos of your organised house.

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Im not too organised but I have cupboards or boxes for everything. I have a sort out every few months and have a bag for the tip /charity./recycle or even a car boot.
my house is a mess! a diary is a good start. with each day right done a list of things you need to sort out and do them. let is be a motto! Whatever goes in the book, I must do!
not very
it is arranged orderly and organized properly,
I am pretty organized, NOW. It took me 6 months after a move to get organized, after a very disorganized move. I had sold a rental I had, that had furniture, my Moms 9 bedroom estate, and my own personal home and moved to another state. This home ended up with things I hadn't had time to organize and sort through, so a lot of things ended up here, that shouldn't have. It made me a MESS! If I had more time, I would have saved myself much pain and aggravation. Lucky for you, you have time to plan ahead. If you know where you are going, it makes it easier to decide what stays and what goes in the new home much easier. But you should know that the basics (pots, pans, clothes, etc) are going. Try to go through your things and think "Do I really need 10 ice cream scoops? Or can I live with just 1?" If you can live without the other 9, sell them on Ebay, give them to charity, a friend, or throw them out! Now you have 9 less things to take with you. Do the same with clothing, go through it, are you really going to take those sweatpants since college with the holes in them? If not, out they go too! If you have a dresser you have been meaning to refinish, but its been 3 years, is it really going to happen? Then paint it for the new house and prepare to have it shipped, moved and protected for the move. If not, sell it, pass it along or donate it. You may be luckier than me, not only were we moving, but work was being done here as things were happening there. At a critical point, the buyer of my home decided she wanted in IMMEDIATELY instead of for the summer season, I thought I had at least 3 more months, I had 2 weeks! So all the sudden, I could have my kitchen redone, my floors refinished and so on. It was a nightmare! No time to sort the stuff from the other homes that had been sold and stacked in the garage and basement. I simply started trying to figure how to get out in 2 weeks alive! Now, I have organized things in an orderly way. One thing I did was to pack my "first weeks" box. This included a few critical pans and pots, paper plates, plastic utensils, paper towels, toilet paper, soap, shampoo, toothpaste and toothbrushes, towels, robes,personal care items, a notebook, a pen, a cell phone, linens, blankets and pillows. This box went with me in the car and was the first thing I brought in. It helped me to get through my first days without having to think too much! The mover had set the beds in the right bedrooms, but since we had no clue where the box of linens was (found 2 weeks later in the basement). We had found someone to do the floors, but now the movers couldn't place the boxes in the rooms that had been refinished. It was again, a nightmare! Lucky for me, I had my emergency box to save me that worry for a couple of weeks. Now that I have things organized, I can offer this up. Try and make it easy to get organized. If you find you are ALWAYS hunting all over the house for your keys, find a spot by the door to keep them ALWAYS, or your purse, set on a certain desk with your keys. I have it set that my purse, cell phone and keys all sit together in my office suite. When I am getting ready to go, I set it by the front door, keys, cell phone, and any paperwork I need all being placed there. Then, out the door. I have a bag that stays in the van that includes lists, pens, magazines that come in the mail, grocery/sale ads, a puzzle book, a calculator and a small pair of scissors. When I have to sit in a waiting room, waiting for a kid to get their teeth cleaned, I am making my grocery list, figuring out if that sale is really a sale, updating my PRICE BOOK, reading a much beloved magazine I usually never get to read, doing a puzzle or making notes to myself of what I need to take care of. This took time to figure out where my chaos points were and thinking what I needed to do to solve those sore points. I have one foster child that is a special needs kid and she always was in a panic, where was her book bag? Her papers for school? Her note for the field trip? And it was panic mode! So I decided she needed a spot near the door for her things. We arranged a metal basket under a sofa table that also holds an antique wine bottle rack, which I have filled with notes cards, address labels, stamps, the dogs leashes, flashlights and so on (critical care items for in a hurry!). Her basket contains her bookbag, her papers from and to school, a bottle of water, and so on. Now when she comes home, she just drops the bookbag in that basket (its a nice sized one) and when she does her homework, the book bag sits at her feet. When she is done, back to the bin. If she needs a note signed, it gets signed and put right into the basket. No searching around in the morning for it, because anything school is in there. Not upstairs, not in the van, but in the metal basket. This took our mornings from a 3 alarm fire every morning to a relaxed easy start. Also, I made little in
Hello how are you? I am not organised on somethings but I do try. I have went to the good will and gotten the rectangle wooden boxes with the wooden slots in them,(the old kind silverware organizers) and put in my drawers for pens,pencils, stapler, odds ends, lotion floss, just about everything "Little" It works so well. I also have weeded out things that I don't use in 6 months. It helps aLOT we are moving also when we get our home sold, and I knew with people coming to look at the house I needed to "look" organized anyway. :) I also Keep a laundry basket to go around and put everything that is out of place if someone is going to drop in quickly, and I just put it in the car or ontop of the washer untill they leave and then put the stuff away, it also helps get things picked up. Hope all this helps in some way. Have a wonderful day.
My home isn't exactly organized: With my husband and I both being packrats, it really can't be. But I do have some order. The main thing is to store things near where you will use them. And since you'll need stuff to help take care of your baby, you'll find shelves and plastic totes to be very useful indeed. If you haven't already, make it a habit to put things where you store them when you're not using them. But expect some clutter until your son gets old enough to start doing chores. Good luck!
I have lots of storage boxes. I put them in my loft and when moving they come in handy and I loan them out to family and friends. However I am now using them as toy boxes as this christmas seemed to over take everything more than normal. It might help if you pack away stuff you don't really use just now but don't want to get rid of. I packed away a lot of bedding and blankets that I didn't really need to use just now, the same with plates, books etc so when it came time to moving it was the least amount. Having 3 children means I had to be organised for it, if not I think it would have killed me.
Here's a couple of hints. Start by making 3 boxes. One marked "throw Out" another marked "sell or donate" and last "keep". If you donate items you can claim it on your taxes. Now you proceed to the first room. If you haven't worn it in 2 years - get rid of it. If it's broken and you haven't fixed it by now - get rid of it. For organizing your babies room - don't allow anyone to give the baby stuffed animals. They are dust collectors and very dangerous for children. That's saves space in the babies room. Organize your bedroom closet shelves in the new house with double shelves - one up high for shirts and a lower one for pants. That doubles your space. In the kitchen, the drawer closest to the dishwasher should be used for utensils and the cabinet closest to the dishwasher should be used for glasses. This saves times putting things away. Home Depot sells many organizers. I llike the ones that you place in a cabinet that have a pull out drawer with a shelf on top. You get double the space. In the garage nail 2x4 on a wall up and down on the studs. Then screw peg board on it. Buy some peg board hooks. Drill holes in the handles on things like brooms, rakes, shoves and hang them on the hooks. It works really great. You'll be able to hang lots of things. When you start unpacking at the new house. Put the most used and most important things away first. Then filter in the other stuff. You might end up throwing away more things. I hope this helped a little. Good luck in your new home.
very organise I like keep things in containers like plastic boxs I also have locker I love so much for storing stuff like hair supplies, over counter medicine
at the moment , i have got problems with my house, the floorboards are sinking, by 35mm in the living room and 30 mm in the living room/dining room. all down to the sleepers that have dropped. so, i am trying to get that sorted out by the insurance company, they have got to do more tests to find out the cause of it. i am dreading it, i can tell you. it has started in the hallway l/room and d/room. and i have got to have new sleepers put in that the joists rest on. does anybody know of a good builders who can rectify the problem , just in case the i/ company will not cover it. thanks for any help out there.
We're moving soon so I've started getting rid of ANYTHING we haven't or don't need anymore.. I've been taking it too resale shops, Goodwill and Salvation Army... I've also been FREECYCLE.ORG.. So, far I've trashed 3 contractor bags of just JUNK! I've sold all our CD'S, DVD's and books we don't read, watch or listen to and paired down video games as well. We have "burning" software for most movies... So, we've ditched CD, Video and DVD jewel cases and we've streamlined our media using CASE LOGICS which are binders that hold 200+ discs.. It's looks nicer in a bookcase and we have them sorted by media... I've also gone through my boys toys and baby gear and have sold whatever they don't need anymore and have given things away. For clothing I like the cube style space bags they HOLD a lot and can get quite heavy... I also like to save the sturdy plastic bags that new comforter and sheet sets come in... It's a great place to store extra bed linens for guests or spring/summer/winter sets... In the home I store my linens under the bed in plastic underbed storage containers... That way you know what set goes with each bed and it frees up space in the linen cabinet... I also get copy paper boxes and other sturdy boxes with lids and cover them with nice shelf-liner paper... It makes them pretty and more durable I use them to store sweaters, purses, shoes, hats/scarves/mittens etc... They fit nice on the shelf of most closets. For a child's closet you can use hanging organizers to organize shoes, hats, socks.. etc... I have a shoe organizer on the inside of the hall closet that I have all the kids shoes inside.. That way shoes don't end up everywhere! We have double closets in our house.. So, i particularly like velcro hanging shelves to organize t-shirts, pants, sweaters etc.. You can use it for toys as well. OR hang an extra bar from the existing bar... To maximize space.. You can find them pretty inexpensive at BED BATH & BEYOND don't forget your coupons! I have small cookie and cracker tins from the holidays and I've spray painted them a fun bright color and I use them to organize office/desk supplies. My kids toys have multiplied since they were 8 mnths. so I use nice wicker baskets in different sizes to keep toys neatly stashed away under our coffee/end tables... We even cleared out the under storage cabinets of our entertainment center and use that for toy storage! In the basement playroom I use a bin system for the toys.. Where each bin is for specific toys like CARS, ACTION FIGURES ETC... On the outside of the bin it's labeled with a picture/label of what goes inside... The kids are getting the hang of it as well as, my husband... If have room in your basement/attic i have a friend that stores her out of season clothing in NEW extra large trash cans like the ones you use outside.. They are cheaper and larger than storage totes and they have a nice lid that seals and they can take up less floor space.. She just labels one for each family member.... That's about all I can think of at the moment. Good luck
very have to be with 2 young children if u haven't used anything in 3 months u don't need it be ruthless less to pack