Learn 6 practical tips to organize your home efficiently while saving both time and money with smart planning and budget-friendly solutions.
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Smart Home Organization: 6 Ways to Save Time and Money
Are you ready to take back your home? Maybe it’s time. After all, a cluttered house means a cluttered mind and in long term situations even affect you more than you think. Organizing your home shouldn’t be something you dread but rather something that gives you peace of mind and happiness. We all lead busy lives, so when it comes to organizing our homes, we need quick, easy, and cheap solutions. The good news is that with a little bit of planning and preparation beforehand, we can cut down on costs and the time spent organizing our houses.
1. Organize Your Home: The Importance Of Home Organization
If you don’t have a plan for how to organize your home, you’re likely to end up with a cluttered house. A cluttered house can lead to feelings of stress and frustration, as well as a decrease in your productivity. As clutter piles up, it can attract pests and cause accidents, such as tripping over items left on the floor. When your house is clean and organized, you’ll feel better, have more energy, and be more productive. The overall effect of a more organized and cleaner home environment will be a weight lifted off of your shoulders that you never knew was on there in the first place.
2. How To Save Time When Organizing Your Home
The best way to save time is to have a plan before you start. If you’re trying to clean out a room full of clutter, it can take hours and become a stressful experience. Having a plan lets you know what to keep, what to throw out and where to put everything. Simply draft out on a note, piece of paper, or even in your phone, a list of items you know are in an area and where or how you would like to relocate and organize them. It never hurts to have some type of outline and the best part is you can edit it as you go.
3. Save Money When Organizing Your Home
Organizing your home can be expensive if you don’t have the budget. Before organizing, list the items you’ll need, such as boxes, drawers, bins, and labels, and then choose the cheapest option. Other than just these storage devices you may also want to take a look into some custom furniture or other pieces of storage items that can help you with whatever is overflowing in your home. You can find good deals especially on marketplace or furniture stores do have sales frequently. For example, for the vintage lovers, a record storage space may be great for your pieces of music and you can even put other decor on their as well. Another way to save money is to do some of the organizing yourself, but do remember that as long as the piece of furniture has some storage aspect you can honestly use it for numbers items and not just what they are originally designed for.
4. Create a Plan
When you rush to organize your home and don’t have a plan, you’ll spend more time and money on the process. The first thing you need to do before you even start to organize your home is to decide what order you’re going to tackle each room. Once you’ve decided on the order, you can start to plan what you will do in each room. Then continuously build it out and tackle each obstacle as you go. Each part of your home may have to have a different amount of storage items or be organized in a plethora of ways so a plan can help you not get as frustrated.
5. Decide What to Toss and What to Keep
If you’re trying to clean a room, you must first decide what you want to get rid of. This can be a difficult decision, but it’s important to remember that you don’t have to keep everything. It would be best to keep only things that have sentimental value or that you use. Be ruthless when getting rid of items but also keep in mind that you can always find outside storage or invest even in a locker somewhere else.
6. Don’t Be Afraid to Outsource
If you’re short on time or cash, don’t hesitate to outsource an item or two. You don’t have to do everything yourself, and if you’ve got an important project like organizing your home, you may want to consider hiring a professional. You can hire professionals to clean your house or organize your home and some moving places even offer these services along with their on storage containers. This would also provide you a temporary or long term solution on whether or not you want to keep items around seasonally or not.
Conclusion
Organizing your home doesn’t have to be a stressful or expensive task. Just remember to make a plan, decide what to keep and toss, and be willing to hire a professional if you need to. If you follow these tips and have a system for decluttering your home, you’ll be able to reduce clutter and keep it under control. The main depending factor in this case is also whatever budget you have as each individual will be operating differently and at their own rate, which can affect how and what actions are actually going to take place.
Written by Taylor McKnight, Author for Form and Finish LLC
