How to Keep your home Organized in Just 5 Minutes a Day

Keeping your home organized can feel like a mammoth chore that you’ve got about as much control over as Trump’s PR people do over his Twitter account. If you feel overwhelmed halfway through the week at the chaos that’s piled up, try building these quick habits into your daily routine. These 5 things will take only 5 minutes every day and will keep your home organized and save you from an all-day weekend of work. 

how to keep your home organized in 5 mintues a day

1. Clean your work surface. 

You probably tell your kids all the time: put it away once you’re done. That goes for you too, whether it’s cooking, dining, paying bills, styling your hair, or curling up on the couch with a blanket and a book. Give yourself the minute it takes to put things away when you’re done and you’ll save yourself an hour cleaning up each weekend.  

My kitchen

My kitchen

Hometalk

Hometalk

2. Dedicate a home for mail and put it there each day.

Use baskets, stacking desk trays, or hanging wall file holders. Or try moving a small dresser to the entryway and use shoe boxes inside labeled for each category of bills, magazines, school notices, etc. and drop everything there. And only there. Then you can deal with it on the weekend (magazines) or at the end of each month (bills).  Plus you’ll have a flat top surface to put a nice lamp and a pretty bowl to catch other things when you come in the door. Which brings me to the next thing…

3. Use catch-all bowls in entryways, bedrooms, and the laundry room. 

Every member of the household should have a bowl or basket or tray where they dump the things in their pocket or purse each day. Make it a rule that miscellaneous stuff like change, keys, glasses, receipts, and lip balms aren’t allowed anywhere except in those designated bowls. It will become habit soon enough.

4. Turn the dishwasher on every night (if it’s full).

Make sure to do up the dishes, whether by hand or by filling the dishwasher every night and put the clean ones away while the coffee is brewing every morning. Dirty ones go back into the dishwasher immediately after use throughout the day. No piles of dishes in the sink. 

5. Put clothes in their place. 

Have a laundry hamper in each bedroom and bathroom. There are no excuses for towels and t-shirts on the floor. All dirty laundry goes in the hampers, and all clean clothes go back to where they belong on their hanger or folded in their drawer. If you do the laundry in your household, make it a rule – you’ll clean only what’s in the hampers. Anything on floors or chairs or tables gets thrown out. Once the others realize you’ll make good on your promise, they’ll get used to using the hampers and putting clean clothes away! 

Yellow Brick Home

Yellow Brick Home

These five things should really only take you about 5 mintues a day (maybe 10 if you have a lot of dishes to put away). Getting and staying organized doesn’t have to be that difficult when you have your environment and systems set up to make it simpler. Enjoy your extra free time this weekend! 

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