Tips to Organize Your Life – Fifty Ways to Save Time and Sanity
2. Use a Shampoo dispenser – children (and adults) won’t waste shampoo; more than one hair product – conditioners, etc. can be dispensed in proper amounts
3. Never have a late payment again! Use Bill-paying organizer to keep track of your monthly payments. As soon as they come in the mail, place them in the appropriate spot. (Store stamps and return address labels in the same location)
4. Use a Day-timer to keep track of everyone’s activities – just use one for everything. Color coding works to designate work vs. family activities; even color-code by child or activity category
5. Use a Food vacuum sealer for those items purchased in quantity. Meats and other frozen items can be stored for months and other foods will stay fresh until you need them. Vacuum seal canisters are also available separately or an entire kit can be purchased.
6. Maximize space under your sink with an under-sink organizer in your kitchen or bathroom. Many of them slide out for easy access to those less frequently used items stored in the back.
7. For extra space in the bathroom or kitchen hang an organizer with pockets on one side for bottle storage and a towel rack on the other.
8. Install under-shelf baskets to increase storage space and to store smaller items without having to search for them.
9. Install cabinet organizers. Many of them slide out for easy access, and some are available as risers for easy visibility of items stored in the back
10. Gain storage space under your beds by using bed risers to elevate your bed and afford storage of larger containers.
11. Purchase under-the-bed storage containers to store off-season clothing, holiday linens, wrapping paper – anything at all!
12. Purchase a wrapping paper organizer – keep all your paper in one place, also bows and ribbon, scissors and tape.
13. In children’s rooms, they’ll always be able to hang up their own clothes when you install a peg rack at child-height. You can even have them select and hang up clothes to wear next day.
14. Hang a Monday-Friday clothing organizer in your child’s room. No more morning rush to pick out clothes to wear each day!
15. Pocket organizers in children’s rooms make for quick clean-up of their room and are great for storing toys and other items. They’re great on the back of the mudroom or laundry room door for storing hats and gloves in the winter time or swimming goggles and water shoes during the summer.
16. For extra space in the laundry room install laundry shelves designed to fit on the back of the washer or dryer
17. Install racks or buy free-standing tool storage containers for the garage or tool shed to hang up tools.
18. Install racks in the laundry room to hang up the mop, broom, etc.
19. Purchase a laundry basket with ironing board – all one unit
20. Keep a coupon organizer with you so you can take advantage of the savings even when you make an unplanned stop at the store.
21. Hang a dry erase board/chalk board on the back of the door in each child’s room with their morning routine so they can learn how to get themselves ready for the day
22. Purchase room dividers in any size or color to complement your décor. They can also serve to “hide” a craft or scrapbooking area or other cluttered space; they also can create a separate space within a larger room.
23. For convenient storage space outside buy deck boxes that can be used as benches and for storage by lifting the lid.
24. Establish an information center in your kitchen or other convenient location hang a bulletin board that has school calendars, sporting events, etc. for easy reference by the entire family.
25. Keep a dry erase board for messages by the phone or at the information center
26. Purchase a trunk organizer so items don’t get lost in your trunk. They make it so easy to find your jack, jumper cables, etc., when needed
27. Purchase a trunk caddy/organizer for holding your grocery bags upright on the way home for the store.
28. Purchase several cleaning product caddies and keep one fully stocked in each bathroom.
29. If you want the ambience of a fireplace, but don’t want the expense of remodeling to install one, why not buy a ventless fireplace.
30. Purchase multi-purpose/multi-functional furniture such as a storage ottoman/footstool.
31. Rather than the expense and mess of installing brick or other edging, install a decorative border quickly and easily using ABS plastic garden edging
32. If your family struggles with keeping up with all their bath and shower items, purchase a personal shower tote for each family member (These are great for college students too!)
33. Color code containers for seasonal items – for example: red or green Christmas/winter
34. Label everything with a label maker, even if you think you’ll remember what’s in a container
35. Use a car cover to protect your car’s finish from the elements
36. Buy storage organizers for the inside of your car and keep them stocked so you’re ready for a road trip any time
37. Wires and chargers and electronic devices all over the house? Purchase a charging station for charging multiple communication devices
38. It’s just too challenging to keep up with everything in your purse – keys always seem to sink to the bottom, your checkbook disappears just at t moment you’re next in the check out line. Use a drop in purse organizer – purseket.com
39. To maximize your storage space, or to store large, bulky items, use space bags.
40. Keep soda cans in order by using a can dispensing rack in your refrigerator.
41. Keep fruits and vegetable fresh by installing drawer liners in the produce drawers
42. If you have limited counter space, install hanging baskets to maximize storage and for easy access of often-used items
43. When buying Christmas gifts – order each family the same thing as long as it can be personalized. That way you won’t have to remember what you got everyone last year, no one will feel slighted, and they’ll all have a personal and thoughtful gift from you.
44. Use a birthday/important day organizer to keep track of family and friend birthdays, anniversaries, etc., and store the cards in the corresponding monthly pockets.
45. Purchase recycling containers designed to save space and enhance your décor, they are available in stacking or side-by-side units.
46. Purchase folding bookcases, especially for a guest room or college student, so they can be installed and moved easily.
47. Install a pet door leading into your back yard (if it’s fenced!) so you don’t have to let the dog in and out constantly.
48. Purchase a hose-holder that allows your hose to be stored, unwound for use and re-wound when you’re finished.
49. Store scrap booking papers in stackable open paper trays or a swatch box.
50. Use a cropper hopper with or without divided storage for all your scrapbook projects, cards, tags sticker sheets, etc.
