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If you don’t have a block of time daily or weekly to devote
to being able to organize your home, the 15 minutes a day
approach may be the perfect solution for you. This is also
good for people who get easily distracted while working on
an organizing project. So what is the most effective way to
use this home organizing approach? Here are a few tips to
help.
Have A Plan
This approach is not going to get frustrating fast if you
spend 15 minutes in different areas of the house each day.
So before you begin to organize your home, have a plan of
how you are going to spend those 15 minutes every day. I
suggest tackling one area of your home to get organized
before moving onto another area. So if your priority is the
kitchen, plan out how you are going to spend those 15
minutes every day in your kitchen. Don’t just tell yourself
that you are going to spend 15 minutes in your kitchen in
order to organize your home. Plan out what you are going to
do every day in those 15 minutes for the next week.
Get A Timer
If you are going to organize your home this way, you need to
have a timer. A timer will help give you a sense of urgency
for your project and will make sure that you don’t get too
far into it. A timer will also make sure that you stick to
your commitment and keep you on task during your home
organization project.
Pick A Small Task Or Make The Task Into Sections
Seems obvious I know but still worth mentioning. When you
organize your home this way, you need to think about your
home a little differently. You will need to look at every
organizing project in your home in terms of minutes. Look
around your home and figure out what is going to take you 15
minutes to organize. And if you know that one of your
kitchen cupboards is more than a 15 minute task, then you
will either not be able to use this home organizing approach
for that cupboard or you will need to find a way to separate
the cupboard into 15 minute sections.
Make Decisions Quickly
The great part about using this method to organize your home
is that it forces you to make quick decisions about items in
your home. You will not have time to sit there thinking
about the kitchen gadget that you got from someone that you
don’t even know how to use. You won’t have time to try to
remember who gave it to you or what exactly it is. And a
quick tip here about getting rid of things: if you don’t
know what it does, get rid of it. If you haven’t bothered to
figure out what it does by now, you never will. If you
really want to organize your home, you will need to get rid
of things you don’t use, even if they look cool.
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