On Monday, I published 60 second organizing tips for your living room, kitchen and bedroom. Of course, these tasks will not get your room completely organized. But sometimes you just don’t have 6 hours available to sort through an entire room, and you just want to do SOMETHING to make it look a little better NOW. So here are some more tasks you can whiz through today:
Office
1. Stack all of the papers on your desk. I don’t care what they are. Just stack them so you can easily rifle through them to find that one document that you need in the short term. 60 seconds
2. Put all of your sticky notes in one spot, if you happen to leave Post-Its to yourself all over your home. 60 seconds
3. Change the month on your paper calendar to the current month. 10 seconds
4. Put all of your pencils and pens in a cup. 60 seconds
5. Pull all of the expired, out-of-date or no-longer-needed pieces of paper off your bulletin board. 60 seconds
Kids’ Room
1. Make the bed. 60 seconds
2. Gather up all of the stuffed animals and put them on either the freshly made bed or in a pile in the corner. 60 seconds
3. Gather up all of the dirty clothes and put them in a laundry basket to take to the laundry room. 60 seconds
4. Gather up all of the pieces of paper laying round and stack them on the desk, so at least they are all in one spot. 60 seconds
5. Stack all of the books in a pile by the bookshelf. 60 seconds
6. Actually put the books ON the bookshelf. 60 seconds, longer if you want to alphabetize
Bathroom
1. Grab anything and everything covered in dust and throw it away (eg. candles, tissue box cover, fake flowers, fancy bottles, bath salts, etc.) The dust is how you know you aren’t using it! 60 seconds
2. Gather up any new, unopened bottles of product and get them out of there. Nobody uses anything new until all of the old products (that aren’t covered in dust!) are used up. 60 seconds
3. Throw out any make-up older than a year. 60 seconds (could be longer depending on how much make-up you own)
4. Gather up all of the dirty towels and clothes and throw them in a hamper. 60 seconds
You are on your way to a more organized home! Contact one of our professional organizers to instill more permanent organizing solutions in your home, but in the meantime, these quick tasks will make your home feel more organized immediately!
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