Make 2024 an Organized Year

January is National Get Organized Month! Time to get organized, de-stress and de-clutter your way into 2024. Grab a pad and pen and walk through each room in your home. How does each room make you feel? Anxious, overwhelmed, nervous, stressed, calm, relaxed? Write down what you’d like to change in the room. Make a plan to organize and schedule it on your calendar as a reminder that you have to tackle it. You will feel revitalized, motivated and energized once the project is complete and organization has been restored! 

Here are eight tips to help you with your plan and get you motivated to just do it!

1. Declutter. Aside from clutter and disorganization being an eyesore, it’s also a distraction. Create a better flow and energy in your home by getting rid of anything that is weighing you down and is not aesthetically pleasing to the eye. 

2. Closets. Make a plan to take everything out of your closets twice a year when the seasons change. Toss, donate, or sell anything you know you will not wear next season. 

3. Kitchen. Take everything out of the kitchen that doesn’t belong there. Empty your pantry down to the bare shelves. Clean and reload everything back in the cabinets according to categories. Keep like items together. I guarantee if you haven’t gone through your pantry in six months, you will have expired food that needs to be thrown away. 

4. Garage. Tackle this once and for all. Throw out anything you haven’t used or don’t plan to use. This area can become a drop spot for things that you don’t have a home for or haven’t used in years. Organize, categorize, label, and itemize just like you would the rest of the house. Purchase seal tight containers for storing items. Keep paper out of the garage and anything else that you don’t want to get ruined by the weather. Stay away from storing items in cardboard. The heat and humidity will cause mold, mildew and will attract bugs. Yuck!

5. Drawers. Purchase drawer organizers for every drawer in your home. Drawer organizers will maximize your space and items will fit better these spaces. You can have that junk drawer but who says a junk drawer has to be disorganized? 

6. Lists. Make a list for everything. Have a running list for any type of shopping, food, clothes, toiletries. How many times did you forget what you had to buy because you didn’t bring a list? Making lists will help eliminate mental clutter.

7. Calendar. Utilize your calendar for everything. Write down your workout schedule, parties, appointments, bill due dates, etc. Refer to it often. 

8. Paper Management. Make a plan to get rid of the piles in 2024. Get the piles off your desk, off the kitchen counter and out of the bedroom. Develop a filing system and make it work for you.

 Most importantly, the key to having an organized home is having systems that work for you and your family. Create routines from those systems to maintain organization. 

Get organized in 2024 and reap the benefits of being organized. You will save money, have more free time, less stress, more energy, and people will have more confidence in you! Organize, Energize!