Organize Your Home With One Simple Step

Have you been trying to organize your home but you never seem to get anywhere?

When you can't keep up with organizing your home, it can become too overwhelming.

By the time you have a minute to clean or organize, there is so much to do that you just do not want to do any of it.

Organize Your Home With One Simple Step

One Simple Step Toward an Organized Home

Starting with one simple step can really make a difference. 

What is that one simple step?

Make a to-do list!

Having a list with a plan can really change your mood.

As you check items off your list, you gain motivation to keep going and check more things off your list.

You can put anything you want on your list instead of relying on pre-made checklists that you probably downloaded 5 years ago and forgot about.

When you make your own checklist, you are in control of how much or how little you include.

Start simple with small tasks so you motivate yourself to keep going.

To-Do List Ideas

Come up with some simple tasks that you know you can complete so you have items to check off.

As you go through your list each day, you can discover patterns in your cleaning so you can make your own checklist that you can reuse to save yourself time.

If you have kids, don't forget to get them involved in the cleaning as well! 

Ideas for daily cleaning and organizing could include:

• make bed
• do dishes
• take one item off your desk and either put it in a drawer, discard it, or donate it
• put papers you want to keep inside labeled binders
• use hanging file folders to file away important papers 
• do a load of laundry
• shred junk mail
• clean toilet
• clean kitchen sink
• clean bathroom sink
• vacuum in living room
• vacuum in bedroom
• wipe off stovetop 
• put away toys
• hang up coats
• clean out lunch bags
• clean out work bags or backpacks 
• have a designated area to put shoes away
• after grocery shopping, move old food and cans up to the top and to the left to use it first and put new food items toward the bottom and to the right

Ideas for weekly cleaning and organizing could include:

• pick one item from your home to discard or donate
• catch up on shredding junk mail
• keep up with your bills you need to pay
• pick one item from a kitchen drawer to discard or donate
• scrub bathroom floor
• scrub kitchen floor
• scrub tub
• spot clean in the refrigerator and throw out spoiled food
• dust off TV
• dust off tables
• dust off pictures
• dust off collectibles
• spot clean the oven 

Ideas for monthly cleaning and organizing could include:

• clean out refrigerator 
• look for some items in your closet to donate or discard
• clean out one drawer in your dresser and reorganize 
• clean out a kitchen drawer and reorganize 
• clean out cupboards and find at least one item to discard or donate
• clean oven 
• dust ceiling fan 

Your Main Focus When you Organize Your Home

When you organize your home, your main focus should actually to be to donate and/or discard items from your home.

Having too much stuff can clutter up your home and make it almost impossible to get organized. 

Buying more totes, bins, boxes, bags, etc. will not help you in the long run when organizing your home.

Those items are temporary fixes and can be helpful in the short term as long as you label your totes and boxes properly so you can easily find what you need. 

So, grab a notebook and a pen and start writing your to-do list!

Let me know in the comments some things you have added to your list so we can help each other organize!

Thanks so much for reading and happy organizing,

Jessica D. Adams OT and Author 

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