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Where to Start When Organising Your Home

Story Highlights
  • #1 - Think before you do
  • #2 - Start with storage
  • #3 - Walk before you run
  • #4 - One little step at a time

Although the process of organising your home will ultimately come down to your house’s setting and personal preferences, there is still a series of general ideas to keep in mind.

It can turn out to be challenging at first, especially if it’s your first time doing it.

In modern times, it can be complex to find the time, disposition, or emotional state in order to grab hold of your home.

The following quick tips will hopefully set you on your way to getting started:

#1 – Think before you do

“I think therefore I am” is a Latin philosophic motto, “to think before to do” should be your home cleaning and organising motto.

You must have a planning period where you take into consideration the amount of room you have, its disposition, utility, and frequency of use.

After doing this you should prioritise those spaces that are more crucial to your daily routine, especially those related to work or study since these types of activities require a high amount of focus, and begin to organise and clean them following this idea.

An organised environment will help reduce stress and allow you to concentrate easier.

#2 – Start with storage

Having a criterion of usefulness is one of the central abilities to exercise while working on your home organisation, and there isn’t a better place to practice it than in your storage areas.

It’s important to keep them non-convoluted, you have to empty them and think about what kind of articles you need to store, and where is best to store them, what is not useful either goes away or to a junk drawer.

It is key to remember that you shouldn’t be bringing new stuff to your home if you haven’t made space for them. With this rule of thumb, you will avoid overcrowding your house, and losing important objects will become significantly harder.

#3 – Walk before you run

Cleaning your home doesn’t have to be a one-day marathon.

The forced sense of completeness is one of the biggest reasons for people’s avoidance of the cleaning process, which counterintuitively will lead to an accumulation of mess, filth, and disorganisation.

There is no need of tackling your house or apartment in one sitting. Going back to the first tip, think about which routine would be better suited to do the cleaning process from beginning to end without it becoming an annoying and unsurmountable chore.

Take it easy, you can clean the living room on Monday, organise it on Tuesday, and follow up to the bathroom. Taking your time almost ensures that your organisation would be efficient and long-lasting.

#4 – One little step at a time

Organising a home from scratch appears to be a truly daunting task.

In the cycle of habit, procrastination is your worst enemy.

The hardest step is the first, this is true for work, exercise, homework, and of course organising your home. To avoid accumulation is best to attack it from the root, there’s no real need to do one big period of cleaning if you don’t allow the dirt to even settle.

This is possible with simple rules: clean after using and take everything back to the place where it belongs.

If you use a pot, clean it, and put it back in the post drawer. If you eat a cookie and crumbles fall on the floor, wipe them up as soon as you can. Having a sense of emergency when it comes to cleaning and organisation is one of the most definite and underrated mechanisms to keep everything in its place.

But don’t worry if your work and other occupations have kept you away from being able to exercise these practices, and now you find yourself having to face a big cleaning process from the get-go since the burden doesn’t have to be just yours. 

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