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Discover Simple Step-by-Step Strategies to Remove Clutter and Cut Stress. |
home -- home organization -- helpful household hints Helpful Household HintsThere are many places to find helpful household hints on the web, in the library, in the bookstore, or possibly from your family and friends. Here are some of the most helpful household hints I know about. Helpful Household Hints for Electronics After dusting your electronics, rub them with a used fabric softener dryer sheet. They will repel dust, making them last longer. You will still need to dust them at least twice per month. Organize your video games and movies by rating, and keep the mature or R rated items on an upper shelf or locked cabinet. This eliminates arguments between parents and younger children, because accessibility isn’t an issue. Helpful Household Hints for Organization Use toilet paper or paper towel rolls to hold unused appliance cords such as cords for electric skillets, electric griddles, blenders, mixers, computers, and other appliances. You can even mark the rolls with a marker so that you can keep track of what appliance the cord belongs to. Minimize disastrous foot falls by putting your children’s small toys like match box cars, Barbie accessories, and game cartridges in a vinyl shoe bag hung on the back of their bedroom door. Free up shelf space in your medicine cabinet and make finding tweezers, nail clippers, and safety pins easier by attaching a magnet strip or square to the inside of your medicine cabinet. Avoid paper trails in the kitchen by getting rid of those refrigerator magnets and hanging a bulletin board in your children’s bedroom, in the kitchen, or in the family room. Post notices, reminders, and artwork on the bulletin board with tacks, and never worry about papers falling to the floor from magnets again. Keep appliances used less than once per week in a drawer or cabinet to reduce clutter in the kitchen, and open up more counter space for food preparation. Helpful Household Hints: Time Savers Run the shower with straight hot water for ten minutes, or until you see steam on the mirror. Then, take a washcloth and wipe everything down well. If things cool off too much, you might have to steam things up again to finish it off, but you’ll definitely use less elbow grease, and less time! Keep a squeegee or shower spray cleaner in the bathroom and train everyone in your household to use them after each shower or bath. This will cut down on the amount of time you spend scrubbing these fixtures later. Instead of spending ten minutes trying to get one coffee filter off the stack, turn the stack inside out and back again. This will loosen up the filters and separate them making it easy to grab just one. |
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"You've given me inspiration to start a clutter free life." Madeleine Andersson Just to say big thanks. I am definitely slowly making a major effort to clear...I am not tempted to even think about what I have just gotten rid of. It is a case of out of sight out of mind. Thanking you. My mind even feels more organized and it's a good feeling! Yours faithfully, I was able to get rid of a lot of things that I hadn't touched or used in 8 years!" Thank you, I wanted to write and thank you not only for your tips, which are helping me, slowly but surely... You are the best. Kathy Velas I've been able to focus and take everything one step at a time, which helped me clear a great mess that seemed so overwhelming before... Matthew J. Zuchowski, Utsunomiya, Japan
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