Housekeeping: 12 Tips for Effective Keeping Household
1. Efficient housekeeping and home storage: let things marinate
For an efficient household, store everything that hangs in your House in 5 stacks: "to move in another room", "to give", "to give to one", "to throw" and finally, the battery "to marinate". Store all items to be marinate in a box and label it with a maturing date within the next six or twelve months. If you do not open the box before this date, you can get rid of these objects without fear.
2. Step forward without backing up
Do not solicit the services of a Professional Organizer to help you increase your storage area. That would take a step backwards. Your goal must be to de-clutter rather than add more storage space. Do not hesitate to sort in your wardrobe!
3. Find her place
Here is good news from professional: to be organized does not mean that every thing is in the right place; It means that every thing has a place. If you are able to store your home in less than 30 minutes to receive unexpected visit, then you are well organized.
4. Frame the masterpieces
Parents feel so guilty about throwing their children's works. A frame that can hold multiple drawings is a good solution. It hangs on the wall, but its hinged door allows you to keep several treasures there.
5. Invest in markers
If you organize and label your photos today by noting what they mean to you, your family will be grateful to you later. In a settlement of succession, the descendants are frustrated when they do not understand why these memories were bepassed to them.
6. Give up rented storage spaces
You can certainly redeem everything stored there for the annual rental rate. Not to mention the cost of the trailer that must be rented to transport the equipment.
7. Give, give, give!
You can sell unused items on eBay, but would you like to be organized or embark on a career as an auction-maker? Unless you need money, give your things to charities or community organizations. This will save you time and progress. You can also give a second life by recycling unwanted objects.
8. Embellish flat surfaces
Counters and tables are quickly cluttering. Try our 7 tricks to unclutter the flat surfaces. For example, if the dining room table is always full of stuff, get rid of it, put a nice center of table and add cutlery. This should prevent your own from depositing anything.
9. Make your car work for you!
Everything that is supposed to go somewhere must be in your car and not in your home. Keep your discount vouchers in an easily accessible envelope, if necessary. Keep a basket in the trunk to store everything that needs to be returned. Use boxes to store toys and emergency kit.
10. Make adjustments
For more storage space in the kitchen, adjust the position of the shelves in the closets.
11. Do not put a lid on the
Avoid covering laundry baskets, bins and other storage containers. It's just hiding what you should be doing.
12. Avoid cardboard boxes for storage!
One of the professionals we met remembers a client who asked her to help her move a number of cardboard boxes to her recently renovated home. By opening the first, they saw hundreds of roaches coming out. (Pouah!) Whatever the vermin, be sure she likes the cardboard.
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