Back to School Home Organization Tips
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As your kids go back to school, crazy schedules challenge your ability to keep up and mountains of school paperwork begin to take over your home. There are some simple home organization tips and strategies to help you keep track of it all and keep your home in order.
1. Make a master schedule. It is a lot easier to keep track of everyone if there is just one place in your home where everyone’s schedule lives. My personal preference on this one is having a whiteboard calendar where I can easily put in appointments and erase them as necessary. If everyone in your family has a different color on the calendar that can help keep straight who is where. This is one of my favorite home organization tips because it helps immediately streamline scheduling for the whole family.
2. Create some organizational routines into everyone’s day. Taking time every day to get organized is a great habit to instill into your kids. Take some time to help them organize their schoolwork projects. Help them figure out how they need to plan out their day and their week so they can get everything done that they need to do. Who knows, with this home organization tip, maybe you will even pick up some things that will help keep you organized every day.
3. Make sure that schoolwork that comes into your home has a place to go. Because if it does not, chances are that it will end up in all sorts of odd and unusual places in your home. If you want to keep clutter at bay, this is one of those vital home organization tips. You need to make sure that your kids know where their schoolwork belongs and what the consequences are if it is found elsewhere in your home. Making sure that schoolwork has a place in your home will save you headaches and wasted time looking for schoolwork at the last minute in the morning.
4. Have a “needs action” board or place in your home. If your kids need permission slips signed, a doctor’s note, a picture for a class project, money for lunch, etc, having a board or place where all of these kinds of things live is a great time saver. Make it a house rule that everyone checks the board daily. That way you can make sure that you kids get what they need from you and you do not have to try to track them down to get them what they need. Home organization tips like these can not only be great time savers but also help eliminate last minute headaches for you and your kids.
Jill Borash
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RedLips2323
My bedroom is a disorganized, chaotic mess! Anyone have good advice, tips, suggestions, ideas on organization?
The first suggestion I expect to recieve is to throw old stuff I haven’t used, worn, or even seen in months out. However, last winter I did just that, so that is not the problem. The problem is I am currently home from college for the summer. I have boxes of stuff I used at college, some of which I even use, or wear now (clothes, make-up, etc.) But some stuff, such as school supplies, books, bedding, and much more, I am not currently using, but I do use at school. We don’t have much storage space in our house, but since I am only at either home or college for only a few months at a time, I am constantly switching back and forth. So I need to find an organizational system to not only keep my room (and dorm room) neat and organized, but also ensure an easy transition when moving.
Pamela H
Please purchase some space saving bags for your clothes!! Also find storage containers that will fit under your bed. If you own a car, there’s somethings you can pack neatly in your trunk with the right storage container, that will not take up all your trunk space and still allows you access to those items.
***I remember those days good luck!!
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Kimmi J
use shelves, tubs, etc.
watch mission organization on HGTV
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Pat S
Couple of ideas. If you can swing it financially, try renting a small storage space at your college location for items you know you will not use at home. This way you do not even have to deal with them when you are not at school. The very small spaces are not terribly expensive and you could even share with a friend to cut the cost.
If this is not possible and for your current situation, do the following. Separate all of the college stuff from what you will use this summer. Once you have all the college stuff in a pile and your summer stuff in a different pile, you can evaluate your space requirements. Have you considered raising your bed with risers and using the new space underneath for storage? Your local home store should have the risers. You can find under bed storage containers with wheels on one end. Pack up everything you will not need this summer and slide under the bed. If you reduce and organize it you myay be surprized how much space you have! We have also used plastic tubs for storage. They fit inside each other when empty, and the can be stacked in a corner when full. They are tough and cheap.
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ilisatom
Run to the container store or now ziploc makes XL bags that you can buy at Target.
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