Organizing Home Tips

By now, most of us have put away our summer clothes and took winter jackets, coats, and sweaters from the storage. I find it the easiest to store seasonal clothes in the plastic containers. They’re durable and air tight so you can put them in the basement or the attic. Next year when you take [...]

When it comes to wardrobe cleanup, less is more. How many times you stand in front of your closet and wonder what to wear? For most of us, our closet is always full of stuff and yet we can’t find anything to wear. If you want to have an organized closet and have just the [...]

We all heard of the saying less is more. But we don’t live by it when it comes to clothes. We buy when there’s a sale going on, when we feel like shopping, when we’re bored, or when we got dumped. The truth is that few of us even wear 20% of our clothes 80% [...]

I have to confess that it’s extremely difficult to decide what to toss out and what to keep when it comes to closet organization. We all dream about this beautiful closet that we walk into every morning and find just what we want to wear for the day. But it’s hard to let go many [...]

We all face the same situation: season changes. If you live in a climate that’s clearly seasonal, then it means you have to re-arrange your closet at least twice a year. Or you face a total chaos. Unless you have a walkin closet that’s as big as your bedroom, you probably have to organize it. [...]

If you think that your house is a mess, you’re not alone. Most people have clutter problems. We all hold onto things thinking that we might need them later on. How many of you save magazines and newspapers? If you need to declutter, the first thing to do is to get rid of all the [...]

If you and your husband have separate closets, today’s is the day to go through his stuff and your kids’ clothes. It’s much harder to clean a husband’s closet. My rule is to only donate and throw out worn, torn, and rags. He will probably want to keep that old college sweat shirt of his [...]

It depends on how many closets you have the in the house. This is a full day’s work for 6 hours. Closets for the kids, husband, and yourself, linen closets. If you’re like many of us, you probably are going to find many things that don’t belong to the closets. You will not try to [...]