Real Life Organizing

You can also use a dry erase memo board or chalkboard to keep track of your daily chores and checklists.

Make the beds
• Clean up kitchen
• Clean up bathrooms
• Put in one load of laundry

Load the dishwasher
(5 minutes)
• Wipe down the kitchen counters
(1 minute)
• Wipe down the bathrooms
(1 minute)
• Put away any clutter left out
(3 minutes)
• Speed mop the floors
(5 minutes)
• Put away one load of laundry
(5 minutes)

The best way to train yourself? Committing to doing one small change in your life at the same time, each and every day.

The office wasn’t the natural place that they stored or used those papers, the kitchen was. Therefore, the kitchen was the best spot to assign a paper organizing system.

Take a look at your “piles” around your home. Odds are, they are piled where they are because you or your family members are “waiting” to put the things away until “later.” If you have to wait until later to put those things away, that usually means that the home for those things is not as convenient as it could be.

If your dishes and utensils are not in the cupboard and drawer closest to the dishwasher, then putting away the dishes is going to eat up more of your precious time than it needs to.

Open-shelving works

Brightly colored or clear bins are

Hooks are a Butterfly’s best friend! Hang hooks in your entrance way, inside your closet, and on the back of all of your doors! A hook is the best way to ensure you will hang up your coat, bag, and everything else you tend to struggle putting away