How to control the chaos when you have a bunch
of people living under one roof.
This is 49 Insanely Clever Organization Tips
To Make Your Family’s Lives Easier
by Mallory McInnis
1. Add extra bins to your fridge to keep things
from becoming a muddled mess.
Look at how nice and contained everything is!
I used plastic storage pull out bins for the
juice boxes, jello, pudding
and other smaller snacks.
Can I just tell you, disposing of the cardboard
boxes that the food comes in (yogurts ect.)
prior to putting in your refrigerator is the
biggest tip I can give you?
2. Eliminate dinnertime stress and put together
a menu planner.
Write your go-to dishes on sticky tabs and
arrange them by type (pasta, veggies, protein, etc.).
At the beginning of each week, you move the
dishes you plan to prepare onto a calendar
and then put together your shopping list.
The menu planner is divided into two parts:
the Weekly Planner
and the Menu Ideas section.
First, take the time to populate
the Menu Ideas section.
Go crazy, write on post-it page markers all
the dishes you’ve ever wanted to make…
Next glean dishes from your Menu Idea section
to populate your Weekly Menu.
But if you really want to save money,
choose your dishes based on the sale fliers
for the week.
Yep, If you can’t decide the worst part
of cooking is the clean-up or
the 2 hours battle with mediocrity before
you’re racking your brain for ideas on what the cook
Then, you should try this idea.
Benefit!
Healthier meals, less time to prepare it,
saving gads of money, and have culturally
diversified meals, it’s only name of few.
3. Make a list pad and hang it on an easily
accessible spot in the kitchen.
Installing it right beside the fridge is ideal,
so everyone (young and old) will remember
to add things to the shopping list
as they run out or expire.
Or,
You can also leave the magnets off and use
this on your desk for a handy to-do list!.
4. Keep an inventory on top of your freezer.
If you don’t know what’s in there, you
probably won’t use it—that’s just wasteful.
5. Declutter your counter and move all of
your utensils over to the wall.
Add a few extra containers for plants
(just because they’re pretty).
Direction:
Choose empty wall space,
Install those towel bars,
Drill a hole on your bamboo utensil about
1 1/2" from the top of each of your utensil holders.
Open your shower curtain ring,
slide one end through the hole
and the other end over the towel bar,
and snap the ring closed
and whoala, New space for anything you have
in your mind.
6. Keep adult, child, and pet medications
in separate containers.
You wouldn’t want to mix up your dog’s medication
with your daughter’s.
Now you just need to remember to periodically weed
out the expired stuff.
Step 1 is purge.
Obviously, anything that is broken or you
no longer use need to go or donated.
Step 2 - Make it accessible.
Try to convince yourself that everything in
the cupboard can be removed {and put back!}
by removing only one other item
{or block of items} at most.
Place items that you rarely use on higher shelves
or towards the back of cupboards so
that frequently used items can be grabbed easily.
Step 3 – Arrange items by Zones.
Try to group all similar items together and
closest to the area that you will be using them.
Keep dishes, glasses, and silverware close
to the dishwasher for a quick and easy put away.
This cupboard space for example was freed
up following my kitchen purge and gave me
room to create a little fun area of my own.
Step 4 – Come up with ways to use poorly
designed spaces.
Using the plastic corner bins that are designed
for showers,
I turned it into a medicine cabinet so that
I just need to pull out the bin to find what
we are looking for.
Step 5 – Have a junk drawer.
The kitchen always seems to have a ton of
miscellaneous little items
that don’t really seem to fit anywhere.
if you agree with this statement, craft special
space for your useful junk like this.
7. Store your trash bags on a roll
so they’re easier to grab.
Maybe now your family will remember to take
out the garbage. It’s worth a shot!
Direction:
Get a bracket set,
Make some holes,
Place each holes set about 13″ apart,
Set the bracket,
Insert dowels through the trash bag rolls,
Done!
8. Put the cleaning supplies you use most
frequently into an easily transportable toolbox.
Whenever someone decides to clean,
they just have to grab the box
and they’re good to go.
9. Convert a bread box into a charging station
for your electronic devices.
Simply drill holes through the back to thread
the charging cords through.
bread box comes with different sizes but for this DIY
You can use any type of support peg
or small shelf bracket.
Yes, I put a shelf in a bread box.
You should have seen the “eye rolling”
coming from my dad when he saw me doing this.
Use a level to ensure that your shelf is straight
and double check if you have to.
Last step:
Cut another piece of crafting board for the bottom.
wrapped both pieces of craft board
in left over fabric.
little hot glue it and viola, pretty shelves!
The inside needs to be cute right
10. Ditch the DVD boxes and organize your movies
alphabetically with plastic sleeves and small tubs.
The boxes take up so much space!
You’ll free up so many shelves and—
if you prefer—
you could organize your movies by genre
instead of title
(holiday movies, musicals, cartoons, etc.).
with 8.5″ x 11″ laminating sheet and washi tape,
my DVD collections looks happier and
healthier now.
11. Store every single cord in your house
in one labeled container.
“Mommmmmmm, where’s my Leapfrog charger?”
“Have you seen my kindle cord?”
Look to the cord box, kids.
Look to the cord box.
Or just label it and carry on
12. Use a kitchen baking sheet organizer
to hold binders filled with important information.
Manuals, doctor’s notes, mortgage info…
everything you may need to look at;
everything you don’t want to risk losing.
13. Eliminate even more paper clutter
by following the suggestions on this chart.
For more tips, head on over to Clean Mama.
or click link under this video to download
this chart.
14. Put together a homework station
for your son or daughter to study at.
Younger kids = you’ll want to supply lots
of crayons and markers.
Older kids = they’ll probably need things
like a calculator and protractor.
15. Don’t have the space for a designated
homework station?
Make an easily transportable one instead.
Just the necessities.
Direction:
•Place your cardboard cartons side by side
then tape the bottoms together.
•Trim the tops of the boxes off to the desired heights.
•Keep wrapping the tape over and around
the surface of the boxes and just inside the rim.
•To convert the front pocket into a market caddy,
insert a few empty cardboard tubes
trimmed to size.
16. Keep especially memorable homework assignments
(and other papers) in keepsake boxes.
One for each of your children.
This idea require Plasic bins from office depot,
labeler and smead color hanging folders
from a same store.
17. Organize the greeting cards you can’t
bear to throw away chronologically.
It’s easy to keep your sentimental snail
mail under control without
becoming a hoarder and you can learn
the how to at The Realistic Organizer.
18. Use picture frames to make wipe boards
that’ll keep you organized
*and* actually look good hanging on your wall.
Print out the free templates at The Chic Site
and then add them to any 8×10 frames.
Hang them in your entryway
(so you’ll remember what you need to do
after heading out the door).
19. If you really want to be the king or queen
of organization, outfit a wall with a command center.
The magnetic board is main feature of this idea.
It's a piece of sheet metal, with a piece
of plexi-glass on top of it, all wrapped up
in a custom frame.
The sheet metal makes it so the board is magnetic
and the plexi-glass makes it easy to write on.
20. Drawer knobs are one of the easiest ways
to add storage to your entryway.
Just add more (and more, and more)
as you need to.
Bonus: you can paint them to match the wall.
tips:
Use pliers or locking vice grips to screw
hanger bolts into the holes of your drawer knobs,
making sure you have the right size hanger
bolts for a very tight fit.
Be sure to only grip the non-threaded part
of your hanger bolt with the pliers
or you will strip the screw.
If you don't have a non-threaded part
on your hanger bolts,
then you can twist two nuts together onto
the threaded part and grip the nuts to twist
the hanger bolts into place.
21. Install a peg board by the front door
to organize everyone’s shoes.
This way everyone’s shoes won’t build up
into an overwhelming pile.
It’s an instant entryway upgrade.
Add Pegs properly using Gorilla glue and that's
pretty much finish the project.
22. Hang baskets from the rungs of a ladder
to store mittens, scarves, or umbrellas.
Another excellent entryway addition.
23. Install a sports equipment organizer
to organize athletic gear.
So I bored stepping out of the house and tripping
over bats and cleats.
Solution, I purchased Rubbermaid’s FastTrack
5 piece kit.
For the athletes of the household.
The chalkboard calendar is a nice touch:
just update it weekly
with game times and locations.
Done,
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