Organize & De-Clutter Your Life During COVID-19
Are you taking this time during the stay at home orders to organize and simplify as well as de-clutter your life? This is a question most Americans will probably answer no to. In fact, most people probably are not aware that there are many things that they can do while stuck at home. Steps that will truly organize and simplify their life.
Today we are going to go over the importance of using this downtime to de-clutter your life. You will also learn 5 tips to help organize your home and life during these stay at home orders.
So with no more hesitations, let’s get started!
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Use Time To Organize Your Life
Most people are going to be staying indoors during this time, but people still will travel, touch gas handles, grocery store shelves, and more very common public places. First and foremost, if you find that you must go out, the policy is better safe and sanitized than sorry. So wash your hands when you use the bathroom, use the wipes at the grocery store, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze. Most importantly, just keep up good health practices for your and everyone else’s safety.
For the time outer “locked-in” or just choosing to enjoy time indoors, you may as well use the time to get organized and help simplify your life so the clutter around you does not overtake. It’s as easy as one, two, three to get started by simplify removing the chaos around you with easy to learn habits and practices to help stay organized. In fact, things like putting things back where you found them, of course, will go a long way.
Furthermore, ensuring a simple task is complete, like putting the toothbrush in its holder, and the milk in the fridge. This is something we naturally do to make items lives prolong. Well, let’s do that for ourselves too, by knowing when we open boxes or move things instead of stacking them and creating clutter. Instead, we can set some time aside to it things in their proper places, or find a new place it truly fits.
WOW COVID-19 Organizing Tips
1. Create An Errand Basket
• Put a crate or basket by the door you use most frequently. Deposit into it anything needing to go out.
• You can add items that need to be returned to stores. Objects such as library books, and movies ready for return, dry cleaning ready for drop off. As well as, borrowed items that need to find their rightful owners.
• Take the box with you each morning and see what you can get rid of that day.
• Return the empty basket to its place near the door each morning
2. Label Your Stuff
• Label your containers and shelves. This gives your things a place to “live. This will help them return back “home” after use.
• Also, the use of labeling helps family members find things quickly as well as more easily. There will be No more, “Mom, I can’t find the masking tape!”)
• When you label something, you are giving it a purpose. For example, a file folder labeled “Bills to Pay” will only hold bills. You would not put take- out menus or kids’ school papers in that file.
3. Organize Your Closet
• If your closet is short on space, relocate out-of-season (clean) clothing to another space.
• Place your hooks on the wall or back of the closet door. You can hang bathrobes, belts, or ties as well as layout your next day’s wardrobe here.
• Instead of hanging some items such as jeans, sweaters, and t-shirts. You are better off folding them and putting them on a closet shelf or inside a drawer.
• Be sure to ditch wire hangers in favor of tube, wooden, or “huggable” hangers. You should hang clothing in the same direction to reduce visual clutter.
4. Banish Email Clutter
• Try and schedule time each day to manage and read your emails twice a day.
• You should read each message thoroughly. Then act, file, delete or pass it along. If it would be easier to reply to an email in person or over the phone, do it.
• When it warrants a quick response (less than two minutes), act on it, and then delete it.
• You always need to remember that the inbox is not a storage area for emails. Be sure to empty it daily.
• Try using the “filters” or “rules” function to set up automatic email filing. This helps to sort your emails into folders based on your specified guidelines.
5. Organize Your Papers
• Don’t hang onto papers unless you have a really good reason! Be ruthless, remember, 80% of the things you file will never get referred to again!
• Keep only day-to-day paperwork at your fingertips. For rarely-used files that must be kept, archive them in an out-of-
the-way area, such as a closet, basement, or off-site storage facility.
• Contact the companies from whom you receive bills and see if they offer online bill paying. The less paper entering your
home, the better!
Save Yourself Time
In fact, there are a lot of simple things which we overlook that can really help us save time. You can do this by taking a bit of time to train ourselves to do the things we already do best… to live our best life. During the time when the indoors are more inviting than ever, get organized, and enjoy time doing what it is you love. If you’re not sure where to start, contact a professional organizer like us, WOW Organizing, to help immediately with a FREE Phone Consultation.
WOW Organizing is located in Roanoke Virginia but helps you get organized immediately no matter where you’re located with our virtual organizing service. Call Ann at (540) 420-8225 or visit us online at www.woworganizing.com to schedule an appointment with an experienced professional now.
Conclusion
Now that you have the proper tips and information to truly Simplify & De-Clutter your life today, you can get started with confidence. If you have any questions regarding organizing your home or office be Contact Us Today Here!
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