Cleaning Organizing TipsLearn more- Uncluttering your house is akin to uncluttering your life. It's liberatingto let go of bags of junk, and clearing your rooms of too much stuff is likeclearing your mind of unnecessary thoughts. Getting rid of clutter is likecleaning a stopped drain and getting things flowing again. The principlesof feng shui are based on the flow of energy around objects in a particularspace. Take a good look at what you have, determine what you want and needto keep, and let the rest go. You'll feel a rush of fresh energy enteringyour life the minute you start tossing things out. Here are some simple cleaning organizing tips to help you create a morestructured household. Start small. If it's really theentire attic you want to reorganize, but the thought of taking on a largespace stuffed with junk is a little overwhelming, focus on one chest of drawersor one filing cabinet to begin. Obtaining immediate gratification is a goodstrategy for proving to yourself that you can do it. Schedule enough time to get the job done. Whentaking on a major organization project, whether it's an overstuffed closet,a basement, or a filing cabinet, first clear your schedule. Take short breaks,but not long ones. Don't be tempted to stop in the middle of a project youmay not get back to for a very long time. For big projects, save yourself from procrastinating by jotting down cleaningdates on your calendar. Then stick to it! Reward yourself after you're done. Learn more- Take everything out of the closet, basement or filing cabinet, spread itall out on the floor, and begin organizing. Start from scratch. Clean asyou go. Keep your dust rags and vinegar on hand, as well as a bottle of yourfavorite essential oil to clean and mitigate that musty odor. Dust or vacuumthe areas you uncover. You may not get the opportunity to clean these placesagain for quite awhile. Try not to give in to the temptation to wax sentimental over each dish andchildhood toy. Make sure you are in the frame of mind to distinguishbetween what you really want (and need) to hang onto, and those relics whosetime has come. Think about the tools you might need for your project and gather them together.If you are reorganizing a filing cabinet you may require files, folders,labels, highlighters, and a loose-leaf binder. Taking on the basement? Getboxes, a tape measure, Swiss Army knife, hooks, and pens and scratch padsfor making lists. Categorize as you organize. Beginwith basic categories such as Trash, Recycle, and Keep, but add other categoriesas you progress and come up with new or better ways to organize. More cleaning organizing tips To quickly declutter a room, first remove all items that do not belongin the room, put misplaced items back in their place, stack magazines, thenvacuum the open spaces. Keep track of your television remote control (and your DVD and your CDplayer too) by attaching a strip of velcro tape onto the television, DVDplayer, and CD player, and the corresponding tape onto its remote control. Keep your camera and video camera loaded with film and always storedin the same location. Save yourself the maddening frustration that can arisewhen you have a Kodak moment that goes undocumented because you can't rememberwhere you put the camera. Instead of trying to squeeze them in your overflowing linen closet, storeextra blankets between the mattress and the box spring on your bed. Keep your linen closet in order by removing old sheets and towels oncea year. Rip or cut them up for excellent cleaning rags. Even more cleaning organizing tips Keep fresh trash liners handy by stashing several between the trash binand the current liner. When you don't have to go in search for a freshliner chances are that your trash bin will stay emptied more frequently. Stash your keys, sunglasses and outgoing mail in a basket by the frontdoor. We use ours also for DVDs to be returned. You may want another basketfor sunscreen and gloves. In your home office, utilize the space above your computer or nextto it on the wall. Instead of spreading out horizontally, spread up, vertically.Supplies, reference books and other items you use will stay easy to findand accessible, as well as visually contained. To declutter the bathroom and kitchen, find small trays in which toset your hand soap, dishwashing liquid, sponges, or other small bottles thattend to gather near the sink and in the tub or shower. Learn more- I hope these cleaning organizing tips have been helpful. For a large assortmentof cleaning organizing tips, go to our cleaning tips section, we have page after pageof excellent cleaning organizing tips for you to read-free! Enjoy- Suzanne Return to cleaning tips
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