Getting organized doesn’t mean spending hundreds of dollars you can easily use many of the tools you have at home or can purchase inexpensively.
Some of my favorite must have tools to get and stay organized are:
Ziploc Bags : Since I always have a supply of these in multiple sizes I use them to organize many things both at home and when traveling. Around your home such as cookie cutters, children’s hair accessories, small toys, bulk snack items or when traveling place your make-up in a sealed zip-loc bags, daily outfits for little ones, anything that needs corralling can be organized in a Ziploc bag.
Baskets/Plastic containers: Use a variety of sizes in your home to store and organize things that need a home such as craft supplies, toys, wrapping paper supplies, coupons and seasonal clothing. You can store them in closets, under beds, the attic and even use decorative ones around your house
Over The Door Shoe Organizers: Hang these through-out the house from pantry doors to hold snacks foods or spices to bedroom doors to hold toys, hair accessories and socks. Over the door shoe organizers hold everything from cleaning supplies to art supplies.
Binders: Use binders to store and organize those piles of papers sitting on your desk or kitchen counter. Create a binder for your children’s school papers, holiday planning, home decorating, meal planning and recipes, one that holds all the warranties and instruction manuals in your home. The ideas are unending as to what you can store and organize in a binder. Don’t forget the binder dividers.
Post it Notes: Use post it notes to jot down those must remember things: an errand you need to run, a phone call you need to make or a chore that has to be done. Keep a pad of post it notes in your kitchen and bathroom drawers, your car, on your desk or in your purse. So that when you recall those must remember things you can write them down and post it in an obvious place such as the front door, kitchen counter, computer etc.
Masking Tape: Use masking tape to label thins as it easily sticks to most surfaces and can be written on with both ink pens and markers. Use to label storage boxes, frozen foods, shelves, any place you need to label or leave a short message.
Permanent Marker: Use permanent markers to label everything from your children’s clothes, storage boxes, freezer meals and items that leave the home such as sports equipment, DVD’s, toys, etc. Keep a permanent marker in a kitchen drawer, on your desk, in your purse and one in the car glove box.
Files: Use files to file important papers as well as organize your family by creating a table top family file center as a go to place for everything from coupons to field trip permission slips.
Timer: Use a timer when cleaning, organizing, working on a project or even surfing the Internet. This will help you to limit how much time you spend doing something as well as motivate you to get a project done such as spend 15 minutes cleaning out your dresser drawers or kitchen pantry it’s amazing what you can actually accomplish in 15 minutes when you set a timer.
What are your must have organizing tools?