Everything in its place, and everything has a place.

This is a saying that you hear all the time, maybe especially from your mother, am I right? well what does this mean to you? When you hear this you pick up, clean up, straighten whatever you want to call it. Well I'm sure that the majority of us have a rough idea of where things go and are supposed to go in your home, but if your not careful it doesn't take long for things to get a little cluttered and chaotic.

SOLUTION: Everything cannot go in its place if not everything has a place. Yes everything. I know this seems silly. You are thinking to yourself right now Dah lady! But if you think about it can you tell me that every single item in your home has a designated spot? A spot that maybe not just mom uses but everyone in the house because that place is that items known home.

GAME PLAN: Re organize! This is so helpful. We just moved in September and we got rid of a lot of things that we no longer had use for, so you would think that would help right? Wrong. Because when we moved everything got put in a place, but nothing seemed like it was in a well organized, permanent, really makes perfect sense that's there spot. So the game plan was to re organize! I started little by little one project at a time. The coat closet, baskets in the cubbies, other living room space, kitchen cabinets, top of the fridge (always gets cluttered in our house) spear bedroom, bathroom closet, bathroom cabinets, rest of bathroom and vanity, B's room, and lastly our room. I literally did one thing at a time. Its not so overwhelming that way.

THROW THINGS AWAY OR GIVE AWAY: As I was going through all of these steps and cleaning and re organizing these different spaces I was really being active in throwing things away that are no longer needed or giving them away to someone or some organization that could use them. If you haven't thought twice about it in over a year get rid of it. If you came across it cleaning something out and and forgot you even owned such an item get rid of it. Don't keep things just because. There is no need to keep items because you may one day need them if you haven't needed them in all this time.

BINS, BASKETS AND CRATES:  Use plastic bins, wicker baskets, crates etc. Whatever system works for you and in  your space. There is nothing better than having things organized and easy to find. Even get or make some labels that way no family member that can read can claim they didn't know where that goes :) My bathroom closet for instance has bins for different things. One for lotions and body powders, one for hygiene stuff like shampoos, toothpaste etc. and one for medicine items. This keeps like things together and easy to find. It also makes less clutter happen, Everything has a place and if it goes back in the designated basket then it looks like it did before it got taken out... Wonderfully organized.

Tomorrow I will be posting pictures of the newly organized residence! Hopefully this gives you a visual of what I am babbling on about and maybe even inspire you to whip your house into an organized shape! Until then ta ta for now! and remember Everything in its place, and everything has a place!