Having an organized home is generally the best way to have a more organized and simpler life. Here some steps.
The tips are taken from the book OMM Organizing, by Melanie Melhem, in which she condensed the best tidying tricks for the home.
The recommendations:
- Make order accessible to all. The key is to order with a logic that allows everyone in the family to find or put away objects.
- When you leave a space in the house, make it even more tidy. That is, if you are no longer going to be in the living room, shake out the cushion where you were sitting and take the glass you used to the kitchen (and once there, wash it). This way you will not have to go through the whole house to accommodate what was pending.
- Add one item and remove another. When you buy something, remove another that you no longer use or do not like so much. They should not necessarily be both elements of the same category. If you buy a shirt, you can discard a cup, a book or a vase. The goal is to go against the trend of accumulation and always have the same number of objects.
- Shop inside the house. And without being online! What is the method? Maybe you need cushions for the living room and it turns out that those from another space in the house would be much better there. Or you realize that the ornament that is in the hallway would be better in the entrance.
- Distinguish between impulse and need. Think about whether what you are buying is really useful to you and you are going to use it, well beyond whether that object is on sale, has a good price or is fashionable.
- Identify accumulation magnets. Some corners seem to attract everything that does not have a specific place. – Lower expectations. Order does not have to become an obsession. A clear example is that of children’s toys. The boys need to spread them, it is healthy and part of childhood. After the game, it will be time to leave the space organized.
Do you think you can start with any of them?
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