Healthy Home Newsletter April 2014 - Volume XVIII, Issue 4 | Page 5
5 Home Organization Tips
To Make Your Spring Cleaning Easy Breezy
Crafting Corner
Don’t you just feel better when things are organized? I mean who
can function when their desk is stacked high with papers or their
pantry is so jam packed with bags from Bob’s Red Mill that they
keep buying more flours they already own 3 bags of?….Oh wait
that’s my pantry not yours. Well heres a few tips for getting your
home organized and streamlined from the pantry to the home
office:
1. Kitchen: Grab some of those fun drawer organizers from
IKEA or Target and get your spices and Tupperware under
control. Also, clean up the family junk drawer (everyone
has one) and vow to keep it organized this time.
2. Pantry: Use glass jars or bins (or try bpa free plastic) to
organize and stack cereals, pastas, and dry baking
supplies. (i.e. 10 different kinds of flours from Bobs Red
Mill.)
3. Bathrooms: Go through the drawers and cabinets and
throw out all expired products. (Keep it “green” by recycling
what you can!) Buy some cute colored bins and separate
out the hair products from the medicine cabinet and the nail
polish from the face wash. When you’re done you’ll be
surprised how much easier it is to find a band-aid when you
need it.
4. Closets & Drawers: Go through and donate any clothes
you haven’t worn in the past year or that don’t fit. (If you
are hanging on to a dress you wore to prom in 1989 for
sentimental reasons that’s fine just make sure it has a nice
spot that’s not causing clutter.) Then organize the hanging
clothes by section i.e. sweaters, dresses, blouses, skirts,
suits. You can also go short sleeved to long and keep them
in color blocks. Drawers can go in groups i.e. underclothing,
pj’s, t-shirts, jeans. If your shoes are a problem get some
shoe racks so you can see all your shoes and keep them
neat.
5. Office: There is no better office organizer than a filing
cabinet. Pick up a stack of those manila folders and a
sharpie and start organizing your life away. Keep important
documents like birth and marriage certificates in an easy to
access area. Shred what you don’t really need and file
away the rest. If you are really fancy you can go paperless
with an electronic storage system. Very cool and very
uncluttered.
Don’t get overwhelmed! Start with one small project and work off
lists and you might want to invest in a simple label maker to make
things even more “Martha Stewart” around your house. And if you
don’t have the time yourself you can either higher a professional
organizer or simply pay your best friend’s teenager who needs to
make a few bucks and has a knack for organizing things to do it for
you. Now let’s get organized!
A Spring Kid Craft For
Earth Day!
“Fluffy Trees”
Craft Supplies for One Fluffy
Tree:
1 cardboard tube (from inside a
roll of toilet paper or a paper
towel)
1 sheet of green construction
paper
10-20 cotton balls (depending
on how fluffy you want your
trees)
glue
glitter
green marker or paint
brown and/or black marker
Take the brown and black
marker and go to town
decorating the cardboard tube
like a tree trunk. Then trace and
cut out a nice shape for the top
of the tree from the green paper.
Use the green marker or paint to
color each cotton ball then glue
it to the green paper. Use glitter
liberally. Then cut 2 slits in the
top of the cardboard tube and
insert your treetop. Voila! Fluffy
trees. Happy Earth Day!
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