Clothes closet chaos
The key to regaining control over your cupboards? The three R's – Remove, Reduce, Reorganise. Start by removing everything from your cupboards. Then sort everything into four piles: rubbish, keepers, charitable donations and dry clean or repair.
Throw away the rubbish and take the donations to a charity shop. Before putting your ‘keepers’ back in the cupboard, decide whether you could do with a few organisers – perhaps an extra shelf for folded sweaters or a plastic storage bin for bags to help keep the floor clear.
Kitchen counter clutter
Kitchens are the meeting place of families, so they often get cluttered up with a huge range of unwieldy items like bills, dry cleaning receipts and photos. A great way to wrestle back control of your kitchen is to put up a cork bulletin board on which you pin the paper and leave each other notes.
Garden gear
The great thing about tidying up garden sheds is that almost everything you need to help bring order is right there among the chaos. Unused plant pots can be used as pretty storage containers for hand tools and gloves. Very large pots make great containers for soil and fertilisers. Rakes, spades and hoses can be hung out of the way on the wall or even the ceiling of the shed.
Kid chaos
Invest in under-bed storage containers to keep socks and underwear handy or to store toys out of sight. Shoe bags thrown over the back of bedroom doors make great toy storage compartments.
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