Guest Post: Five top tips for restoring order to your home

Christmas may have come and gone, but the whirlwind of the festive season is bound to have left a path of destruction behind it. With guests coming in and out, toys strewn across every floor, old clothes thrown out in favour of new ones, it can often resemble a battlefield, rather than a home.

Instead of getting bogged down with the winter blues, why not spend January restoring order to your home? These top five tips will help you restore some order to your home and in turn, make you focus more on yourself in the future.

Set aside a block of time

If you are planning to sort out your house in between feeding the kids and tonight’s instalment of Emmerdale, stop now. This level of organisation requires plenty of attention and it’s easy to get overwhelmed, so the first step is to set a decent amount of time to get the work done.

Stop rearranging

Unless you have a clear idea of why your stuff keeps getting backed up it is pointless rearranging, as in just a few days, weeks or months, the same thing will happen again. Tidying up is generally only any good for the short term, perhaps you have unexpected guests or your parents are popping around for a cuppa – that kind of thing.

Look objectively

If you want to really restore order, you need to look at why particular spaces end up clogged with stuff. Is your fridge door littered with post-it notes? Are you always tripping over shoes in the hallway? Is your coffee table covered in newspapers and magazines? Once you have identified the problems, you can work on rectifying them – buy a magnetic notepad for the fridge, a shoe rack for the hallway and a magazine rack for the living room.

Do those ‘odd jobs’

Every household has them, the jobs that have been started and never finished, or those that simply been postponed indefinitely. It might be the sealant around the bath or sash windows repairs. Whatever it is, draw up a schedule to get them done.

Donate unwanted items

As you start to clear the clutter taking over your home, you’ll need somewhere to put all the stuff you don’t want. Unless it’s broken, you could donate it charity – remember one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

 

 

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