Keeping Your Home Organized (Part Three)

Wow! Believe it or not, we are almost done. Welcome to the final edition of organizing your home.

Let’s get to it, shall we?

Maintaining the Laundry

Depending on the number of people in your home, laundry can pile up if not attended to on a regular basis. This being the case, here are some suggestions to help you keep on top of the laundry and guarantee the availability of clean clothes.

For example: laundry for babies is cleaned in a different way than adult laundry. It is not advisable to use fabric softener for baby laundry, but it’s fine to use with adults’ clothes. So choose a day to do only baby laundry so it will be kept separate from laundry done for adults. Other than that, consider purchasing a laundry hamper that separates the colored clothes from the dark and whites. Then, wash clothing based on the fullness of each type clothing in the hamper.

While you are sorting and addressing any potential stains by pre-treating them before washing, take in some TV or listen to some music to take your mind off the drudgery.

Keep in mind that it only takes a moment to pluck a piece of clothing out and check it for stains, squirt it with pre-treater, and then put it in the dirty basket, ready for the wash. Folding can be done the same way.

Once you have folded the clothing from the dryer, instead of placing the clothes in a basket, place them in the individual bedrooms on the bed. This way, it must be put away before retiring for the night and you won’t have a laundry basket full of clean clothes all the time.

As much as most clothing is wrinkle-free and needs no ironing, there are still those items that will need the touch of an iron to remove wrinkles. If you have things that need ironing, do it when the laundry is clean and hang it up immediately to avoid them becoming wrinkled all over again.

Maintaining Your Sanity

After you have gotten your house in order and the goal is to now keep it that way, maintaining your sanity may not be as easy as maintaining an organized home!

However, what I’ve discovered is that if you put your home on a schedule, things won’t overwhelm you. This way, you’ll know that vacuuming will be done on one day and that laundry will be done on another. You’ll find yourself walking in to any room in the house and smiling to see such a clean and organized room whenever you turn on the light. And you’ll know that YOU are just as special as the company coming to visit are when it comes to having a clean home.

You’ll have peace of mind knowing that if the phone rings announcing that company is coming, or there is a knock at the door, you can rest assured that your entire home is ready!

Most of all, you’ll have the appreciation of your family, and know that you’re setting up good habits for your children to observe and repeat when they grow up and move into homes of their own.