Daily Habits for an Organised Home – A sense of order and organisation at home reduces stress, makes you more productive and opens doors to spontaneous creativity. But lots of us live in a muddle, with busy, chaotic lifestyles making it hard to relax and wind down at the end of the day. Here are some tips, to help you put you back in charge of your space and your life.
Daily Habits for an Organised Home
Habits for an Organised Home – Make Your Bed
Yes, really. If this is already a habit, you might be surprised at how many people don’t bother. Yet it’s such a quick and easy thing to do, instantly setting a positive note for the day and giving the bedroom a tidy uplift that’ll please you every time you walk in there.
Whether you make the bed after coffee or as soon as you roll out, just take a few moments to fluff the pillows, straighten the sheets, shake the duvet back into place and smooth any wrinkles with your hands.
Encourage everyone else in the house (including children) to make their beds too. Not only will it save you a job, but you’ll also instil good habits and a sense of morning motivation into kids.
Habits for an Organised Home – Declutter Your Space
Clutter creates an astonishing amount of stress, so keeping your home as clutter-free as possible helps promote a sense of calm and harmony.
If your main feeling of clutter comes from simply having more possessions than you have spaces to store them, consider renting a self storage room to keep the items you’re not using safe.
Have regular clutter-busting purges. Just a few minutes a day does the job to return stray items to where they belong, sort through junk mail or other paper items and either file or bin them.
Habits for an Organised Home – Have a Cleaning Routine
In a busy household, dirt quickly accumulates and if you don’t blitz regularly you can end up with a mammoth task.
Try and give everyone some responsibility for a bit of cleaning, whether you set up a chore rota or simply ask people to leave things as they’d wish to find them. Get family members to clean the bath after using it, wipe round the sink after washing, or put their own dishes in the dishwasher. Will you have to nag a bit at first? Yes, maybe, but keep it light-hearted and gentle. It’s hard to change a habit.
If there are tasks that get habitually neglected, such as mopping the kitchen floor or mowing the grass, set up a weekly or monthly schedule on a calendar or dedicated jobs list. Ticking off jobs as they’re done can be quite satisfying.
You could also divide the house into zones, either by room or simply upstairs and downstairs depending on the size and style of where you live. Give each zone a cleaning day, such as hoovering the bedrooms one day and dusting and vacuuming downstairs on another day. With a quick cleaning routine, you always know where you’re up to and what needs doing.
Habits for an Organised Home – Prioritise Cleaning Jobs
There are some things that need doing everyday throughout the house, and prioritising these tasks can make all the other jobs feel smaller and easier.
Small things include wiping down kitchen work surfaces and the cooker top, cleaning up spills or messes as soon as you see them, and having a quick sweep around the floors to either pick up stray items or sweep up food debris from cooking or mealtimes.
Habits for an Organised Home – Stay on Top of Paper Clutter
Despite supposedly living in a paperless world, we still seem to have far too much paper lying around, from advertising flyers and leaflets, official letters, printed newspapers, or magazines and loads of other small items.
A paper filing system can help you stay organised with physical items you can’t digitise. A simple box file, a set of plastic pockets or a ring binder is enough to get started. Make a paper date once a week to round up all the stray items, discarding what you don’t need and filing important information.
It does two jobs: keeps the house looking neater when papers aren’t stacked in piles or propped up behind ornaments, and makes sure you don’t forget or lose important information about appointments or deadlines.
Habits for an Organised Home – Get the Family Involved
Every member of the household should have some involvement in keeping the place organised and tidy. A family discussion might help, or you could just start asking people to do stuff, such as washing dishes, emptying bins, putting dirty clothes in the laundry bin, or taking used cups and plates into the kitchen.
If it’s a new concept, start small and be patient. Encourage rather than demand and, where children are concerned, give lots of praise and thanks to show you notice and appreciate their efforts.
From dealing with space issues by using self storage, to small daily habits like making beds and doing dishes, starting new routines or building better habits takes time. But it’s worth it, as everyone will soon notice the positive impact of a more organised home and feel a lot better for it.
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