![]() ![]() (If you have minimal stuff and the space for storage, then storing toys on open shelves, Montessori style, is great.)Įven a 1-year-old can tidy away their toys into boxes or baskets it’s quick and easy, and then everything looks amazingly neat and tidy.īaskets look pretty, and there are always lots of second-hand baskets at op-shops, but I store plenty of things in old fruit and veg boxes (free) and even some old beer boxes. The easier your storage solution, the quicker the pick-up job and the more likely it will get done. This is where baskets, boxes, and containers are great, especially for kids, but for adults too. When everything you own has a home, it takes minutes to pick things up and put them away because you know exactly where it goes. Not having a place for things makes it hard to tidy the house.Īfter getting rid of the clutter, the next step is to find a home for everything. Or we’ve run out of room to put it anywhere. We don’t know what to do with it or where to put it. Have a Place For EverythingĪnother big cause of mess is when the stuff we own doesn’t have a home. Recycle old magazines and junk mail straight away and avoid your home being a random dumping ground for stuff. Help your knick-knacks shine by displaying a few favourite pieces. Removing some stuff will not only cut your workload your house will instantly look uncluttered, tidy, more spacious and fresh. How many sets of sheets do you need? Towels? Toys? Do you need to keep all that paperwork? Do you remember what’s in those boxes at the top of the cupboard? Me neither. When I have a big declultter ( ‘no, we don’t need to keep ten empty egg cartons, my dear’), it’s a lot easier to keep the house tidy. Part of the reason we spend so much time tidying is that we have so much stuff to tidy. Couple that with the fact we live in a small townhouse and clutter is probably our biggest issue. We are a family who routinely keeps boxes because they might ‘come in handy,’ keep egg cartons out of the recycling ‘ for crafts‘, and bring home other people’s junk because we could probably use it. The number one most important thing you can do to keep your home tidy and yourself sane (and save money) is to keep clutter to a minimum. But it’s a lot easier to vacuum and wash floors, sanitise benchtops, and otherwise clean when there’s not a lot of stuff in the way.īelow are some simple tips we’ve found useful to keep the house tidy (or restore it to a presentable level, without spending a huge amount of cleaning each day. Of course, a tidy house isn’t the same as a clean house. ![]() ![]() But we work from home, which means the kids are at home all holidays (and then there was that time we were all home for a pandemic), so our house is very lived in. ![]() If you’re out of the house all day, it’s easy to keep it tidy. So for us, it’s not so much about keeping our house clean but resetting it after a day of crafting, baking, sewing, photography, painting and all the other things we get up on a weekend. One of my kids is a walking explosion of clutter (truth be told, they take after me… shhh.) Sometimes shoving things into drawers and cupboards to make the house tidier is good for our sanity. This article is titled keep your house looking tidy for a reason. There are too many books in the world waiting to be read to be wasting time scrubbing baseboards. The science of neuroarchitecture shows that our home affects our moods, and if you’re feeling a little down or overwhelmed, a quick tidy might just give you the lift you need.īut we don’t want to spend all our time cleaning. While you’re busy cleaning up one room, they’re busy creating a cyclone in another room.Īnd then a visitor drops by, and you mumble a quick ‘sorry about the mess ’ as they step over toys and push a load of laundry off the couch to sit down.īut having a tidy home isn’t about impressing people. “ Cleaning with kids is like shovelling snow in a blizzard.” ![]()
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