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Organizing your home can be a great way to take care of yourself. Taking up a hands-on organizing project does more than improve the flow of your daily life. The act itself may be calming, bringing you back to the present moment and allowing your thoughts to wander while your feet remain firmly rooted on the ground. Your weekend project can help you transition from a mood of helplessness to a state of serenity by combining the benefits of the act with the planned result.
5 Ways To Organize Your Home To The Next Level
If you’re one of those people who get these types of far-reaching benefits from something as basic as putting some organization into your area, you can find yourself looking for even more things to organize nearly two years into the pandemic.
These types of next-level organization efforts usually entail more than just tidying up places; they often entail establishing long-term support for organizational structures.
Here are some ideas for taking your already-organized spaces to the next level:
After clearing a drawer, divide it into sections.
You’ve gone through your sock and underwear drawers and selected the best and most useful items. However, you might want to consider adding drawer organizers to your dresser drawers to preserve those nicely organized garments in order in the future, if not forever. You can make use of an organizer set to keep odd items like bras, underwear, and socks neatly organized with ease.
Label shelves and containers after you’ve created “zones.”
Putting like with like, whether it’s craft supplies or baking ingredients, is a fundamental home organization principle. However, if these zones aren’t maintained, chaos will return, especially if other members of the household use the same locations and objects.
Labeling eliminates the majority of the effort involved in returning items to their proper places. I already have a label maker, but if I needed another, I’d acquire a wireless label maker that links to your phone or an extremely low-tech label maker like my mother used to have.
Sort collections by color or size after they’ve been whittled down.
The first step toward an orderly and accessible collection is to declutter your collection of books, clothing, art supplies, or whatever else you retain and store. Sorting your collection by size or color is the next step. This gives it a sense of aesthetic order as well as inherent organization.
Putting things in color- or size-order encourages people to put things back in the appropriate place, similar to how labels direct people to put things away in a particular spot. This path keeps your system going. Putting my shirts in rainbow order in my drawer or organizing them in increasing or declining length are two of my favorite ways to do this. Color-coded books are not only beautiful to look at, but they’re also surprisingly easy to find.
After clearing everyday clutter off your surfaces, remove more permanent items from surfaces for good.
Things that don’t belong on our counters, such as paper heaps in the kitchen or on our workstations, happen to all of us. If you’ve managed to keep these stacks under control, either by strategically placing things in boxes on these surfaces or by doing a daily sweep of objects that don’t belong, there’s a way to extend the calming effects of a blank slate: See what staples you may get rid of for good from your flat surfaces.
A small appliance or your cutlery might fit in a cabinet or drawer, and the notebook you keep on your desk might fit next to some books on a shelf. Only leave out what actually adds to the beauty, meaning, or usefulness of the piece. Clearing off surfaces for good, wherever you do it, allows the entire area — and you — to breathe.
Put rarely used apps “aside” once you’ve deleted useless apps from your phone.
After you’ve gone through your phone and deleted all the apps you don’t use, take it a step further and relegate the apps you still need but don’t use on a regular basis to their own screen in app folders.
Fast food apps and specialized photography apps for retouching, for example, are examples of programs to transfer to folders. You can use the App Library if you have iOS 14 or higher. Alternatively, on Android, try something similar with folders. You can avoid getting visually inundated every time you pick up your phone by keeping just frequently-used apps visible on your phone screens.
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