This week Fall softly came to our city with the sound of rain drops on my window. I was happy with the thought that cooler weather was here with the hope it was here to stay. Then I watched the weather forecast and she said we would be back to summer temperatures by the end of the week. Softly summer is creeping back to keep us hot for awhile longer.

Isn’t this just how it is with clutter in our homes? It softly creeps up on us until one day we say “Where on earth did all of this clutter come from”? Here are some tips on how to avoid the clutter creep:

In the kitchen:
•Keep the dishwasher unloaded. This way when something needs to be loaded it can be.
•After using a utensil, bowl, or pan load it in the dishwasher right then. This saves you time later on having to come back and loading. It also keeps the kitchen cleaner looking as dishes don’t pile up in the sink.

In the bedroom:
•Hang up clothes as soon as you take them off, or put them in the laundry.
•Make your bed every morning.

In the bathroom:
•Toss (recycle) bottles when they are empty, don’t hold on to them to clutter your space.
•Get rid of soap slivers. Decorative soaps can also be clutter if they are never used and just take up space and become dusty.

In the office:
•Get rid of pens you don’t like or don’t use. You do not have to keep every pen that comes into your life. Keep all pencils sharp so when you need them you can use them.
•Create a working filing system so paper doesn’t scatter all over your desk.

It is the little things that add up to big things to make our homes unorganized. Doing the little things in every room every day will help us be organized and stay organized.

What tricks do you use to stay organized?