Are you looking to organize your home but don’t know where to start? Easy home organization projects are perfect for individuals who are in the beginning stages of organizing their home. Simple and easy home organization projects allow you to experience a sense of accomplishment, build confidence, and give you the self-confidence to tackle larger home organization projects.
On top of that, another advantage of easy home organization projects is time. Simple home organization projects don’t take a lot of time but still are powerful as they allow you to organize and simplify your home into a clutter-free living space. As you begin to complete home organization tasks, you will be shocked at the amount of easy home organization projects that you can accomplish in a 30-minute time block.
Below are 15 easy home organization projects that will help you on your journey towards an organized and peaceful home. Get ready to bid farewell to chaos and say hello to a simpler, more enjoyable life!
1. Organize Your Junk Drawer
Our junk drawers become the home of all our odds and ends. To organize your junk drawer, start by taking everything out. Clean the drawer and place mini containers in the drawer. Decide what each container will hold (writing utensils, post it, tape, rubber bands, scissors, etc.).
Begin to sort the items in the identified categories. Toss or donate items that are not apart of the identified categories.
This organizing technique is referred to as organizing for the space not the materials and forces you to part ways with items.
2. Organize Your Car
Our cars are an extension of our home. Grab your home vacuum cleaner and a trash bag and set the timer for 20 minutes. Place large pieces of trash in the trash bag and vacuum the small pieces of trash.
Throw away or shred any expired insurance cards, registration cards, coupons, loyalty cards, and other pieces of papers that are no longer needed.
Organize your glove department by ensuring that you have up to date insurance cars and registration cards.
If you don’t have a home vacuum cleaner, visit your local car wash to clean and organize your car. A car wash will be an added bonus.
3. Organize One Drawer
In your bedroom go through one drawer that contains clothing items. A sock drawer is the easiest to start with. First go through your drawer removing socks that have holes or seem to be very worn. With the remaining socks create pairs. Lastly, fold the pair of socks in half, folding the pair in half again. Another simple way to organize and fold your socks is to roll the socks, neatly tucking the socks. This tutorial has many folding options for socks.
4. Organize The Mail
If you are unable to go through your mail on a daily basis (which is best), set a time to go through your mail. Shred or throw away any junk mail or mail that you no longer need. Next, create two piles with the remaining items. Pile one will consist of items that you need to address now. Pile two will consist of mail items that you will need to come back to soon (Don’t forget to come back to the items) to address.
5. Organize Your Email
Spend 30 minutes going through your email deleting emails that you no longer need. Unsubscribe to email providers that are no longer useful to you. This will stop the flow of emails.
6. Organize Your Phone
Organize your phone by deleting apps and photos. In just ten minutes you can delete over one hundred pictures which will free up memory space! After you delete the apps that you no longer use, create folders to organize the remaining apps.
Tips: Delete your screenshot pictures first. These usually don’t hold emotional attachment for us which means that hitting the delete button will come easy.
7. Start a home organization binder
This is a game changer. A home organization binder is a binder that stores important information regarding your home and family. It serves as a central location that will allow you to access the documents in a quick manner. To create a home organization binder you will need a binder, dividers, and important papers. To decide what papers are important for the home organization binder, first decide what categories are important for your family. Family contacts, dates, finances, schedules, medical concerns, and schedules are common important categories to include.
Next, when you have all the items together, separate each item according to their identified category. Hole punch or use clear protector pages and place the papers in the binder. Separate the categories using dividers or a colored sheet of paper.
8. Meal Plan
Organizing a meal plan for the week or month is a great simple home organizing task as it allows you to organize your evenings. Look in your kitchen panty to determine what food staples that you currently have. Based on the food items that you have, begin to make a dinner menu for each day of the week. If there are items that you will need to purchase, make a grocery list and plan to make a trip to the store soon.
9. Clean Out Your Refrigerator
Set the timer for 20 minutes and grab a bag or utilize your garbage disposal. Dispose of any old food and food that you know that you will no longer eat. Look for expired items. Expired milk, cheese, and condiments are my go to oftens when looking for expired dates. When the timer goes off set the timer again- this time for 10 minutes and wash any dishes that you may have emptied.
10.Organize your medicine cabinet
Just as you went through your refrigerator, also go through your medicine cabinet. Look and properly dispose of expired vitamins and medicines.
11. Organize Your Purse
I think that I could win the award for having the most coupons in my purse. Go through your purse and clear it of any unneeded paper. If you have receipts that you still need, designate a place at home to store the receipts.
Place all your credit and debit cards, gift cards, etc back in your wallet. Small pouches work great as organizers for purses and serves as a home to place similar items. If you have makeup throughout your bag, place all of your makeup in a pouch. Placing my writing utensils in a pouch has also helped with the organization with my purse as you can never have too many pens.
12. Organize Your Work Bag
Similar to organizing your purse, you can follow the same steps and organize your work bag. If there are papers that you cannot part ways with, place these papers inside folders. Color code or label your folders. This will allow you to quickly locate the papers when needed.
13. Create a cleaning schedule
A clean home compliments an organized home. In fact they go hand in hand with one another.
Create a cleaning schedule that outlines areas of your home that will clean daily. This can be a simple schedule where you list one cleaning task each day. For example on Monday you may vacuum the floors, Tuesday you may dust, etc.
14. Create Labels
If you have started to organize spaces in your home, label the spaces. Labels are great as they allow everyone in the home to know where specific items belong, eliminates confusion, and helps give every items a home.
15. Create a monthly home organization plan
Now that you have built your confidence with small organization projects, begin to schedule home organization tasks each month out of the year. This article contains a FREE monthly planner to help you plan!.
Final Thoughts
Organizing your home can seem overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be! Start with simple home organization projects. These tasks are quick, easy, will make a noticeable difference, and most importantly allow you to meet your goals.
What easy home organization project can you knock out today?
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