Check out these organization tips from today’s guest author, Tim Eyre, of Extra Space Storage. He shares strategies for just about every room in your home.

Faced with trying to keep myself and my own household organized, I’ve developed a strategy that seems to work for me. Depending on your lifestyle, particularly if you have a large home with children, the task of keeping an orderly house can be daunting. I’ve learned that focusing on one specific room at a time can help make the process more manageable. These are some of the things I’ve learned along the way.

Kitchens. In my experience, the kitchen can be one of the most difficult parts of the house to keep organized, but it’s also one of the most important. Making sure to remove expired foods from the refrigerator and pantry will help you organize your food so it’s easier to find, thereby minimizing waste. However, it’s also important to do so in order to avoid the risk of someone ingesting food that’s gone bad.

Although the refrigerator and the pantry require the most vigilance, you shouldn’t ignore the freezer. Freezers can extend the useful life of many foods, but items shouldn’t be stored there forever. Instead, make some time every once in a while to organize your freezer and throw out food that’s been there a long time in order to make room for fresher options.

Bedrooms. Bedroom closets are another common obstacle in the pursuit to get organized. However, making some time at the beginning of each new season or at the same time each year to go through all your home’s closets and collect garments that haven’t been worn in about a year will help keep things orderly and neat.

Bathrooms. While bathrooms aren’t typically major storage areas for most folks, I’m often surprised to learn how many people hang on to expired medications and empty pill bottles for no apparent reason. For organizational and safety reasons, those items should be disposed of on a regular basis.

Living Rooms. Like bathrooms, living rooms and dens aren’t the most common rooms in the house for clutter to accumulate, but it’s a good idea to survey the items adorning bookshelves and tabletops from time to time. For example, while a well-worn book may look nice on a shelf, donating it to a charity once you’ve read it can make room for that new novel you’ve been wanting to read.

Office. Regardless of whether you have a separate office in your home, chances are you have a desk, a counter, a drawer, or some other area devoted to storing important papers and financial materials. While there’s nothing wrong with that, a good strategy is to go through and actually read all the documents that you’ve been saving.

If something isn’t important, get rid of it (but make sure to shred or otherwise destroy anything that has personal information on it). For other older documents that are, in fact, important, box them up and store them away in a file cabinet or some other safe place so you can keep newer records neatly organized and easily accessible.

Garages, Attics & Basements. Garages, attics, and basements often get neglected because most of us don’t spend much time in those areas, so we tend to let things slide when clutter accumulates. However, if things get out of hand, eventually you won’t be able to find the items stored there. Therefore, it’s prudent to go through these spaces on a fairly regular basis and purge things, like tools that no longer work.

About The Author

Working with self storage users all over the United States, Tim Eyre helps customers store their stuff in places like a self storage facility in Brooklyn and a Sacramento self storage location. In his spare time, Tim likes to get outside for a game of basketball or a round of golf.

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