Quick Fixes to Get Organized
Do you dream of quick fixes to your organizing challenges? Don’t we all want to wave a magic wand and make all clutter go away? By nature, a quick fix does not accomplish your real goal of getting organized. However when you have just a few minutes, there are some options that will make a difference for your organizing.
Paper organizing
Paper comes in at an alarming rate. We have different papers we need. What do we do with all that paper? An accordion file is a quick fix for getting organized. This product has either 7 or 13 slots. Decide on your categories for paper, meaning group them together by what you plan on doing with them. This can be To do, To pay, To file, or Taxes. Another option might be Clients, Financial, or Administrative. Label the tabs and you have a quick fix for organizing these.
Quick fix for papers: accordion files.
Closet
Your closet is where you start your day. Why not make it easy to get ready in the morning with a quick fix of slimline hangers? These hangers are truly slimmer so more fits in your closet. Everything hangs at the same height. You will see the clothes rather than the hangers too!
Quick fix for closets: slim line hangers.
Time
There’s nothing like a timer to help us be more aware of time. Setting a timer helps us with judging how long a task takes or keeping to a specific amount of time to accomplish a task. Either way, your time awareness improves with a timer.
Quick fix for time: timer.
Just as overwhelming as paper, email grows to dramatic proportions daily. What’s the quick fix here? Hit unsubscribe as much as you can! With every shopping email or blog post, you have the option to let go. Take a minute to scroll to the bottom of the email and unsubscribe. Remember that minute will save you 5, 10 or 30 minutes later.
The quick fix for decluttering is spending 15 minutes at a time culling and eliminating. Use an energy spurt to eliminate what you have not used and don’t love in that quick fix. Get that bag into your car right away and drop it off.
Be careful with the idea of buying bins as a quick fix. It can be deceptive to stack up more bins with more stuff you won’t be able to use.
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This might sound silly, but a quick fix for the entry is to carry all of the shoes that you seldom wear back upstairs to the closets. Sometimes, this frees up a bunch of space!
@Seana – that’s a brilliant quick fix!