Decluttering Your Bathroom

Hello to all my fellow readers.  I am so proud of you..  I have heard from many of you and you are excited about what you are doing in your living spaces.  Today I want to direct our attention to our bathrooms.  I know what you are saying.  Our drawers and linen closets...forget our cabinets beneath our sinks.  It is okay, I know that you will attack this area just as you have been working through your closets and piles.

First, remember Rome was not built in a day.  Nor will you declutter in a day, sometimes not even a week.

Let's start small...your drawers.  There are some great websites that you can order from or stores that you can visit that have wonderful storage accessories.

Go through one drawer at a time. If yours is like mine, how we collect a lot of face products. Let's start by separating the ones that you REALLY use everyday.  Then onto the ones you use once a week.  When you are finished look at what is left.  If it is older than 6 months, throw it out.  You can do this.

Next go to the second drawer, and go through the same process with hair products, hair equipment, etc.  If you have an array of hair equipment as I do, I keep the current hair length that I use.  Take the others and place them in a storage bin, remember to label or purchase clear containers.  Store these either in the linen closet or beneath your sink, neatly on top of each other.

As you complete each drawer, think of how you use them.  There are some great organization accessories for drawers that will keep your makeup, products and jewelry separated for easy recognition.  It's that what irritates us the most when we have to go through 4 bottles to get the one we need at the moment?

Now let's move to the cabinet.  Follow the same process as above.  I found a perfect storage bin at Target that has drawers.  I can keep my makeup bag and toothpaste in the top drawer for easy access.  The second drawer is products I use about once a month.  I place the products I use frequently at the front of the cabinet and items that are used rarely at the back.

The linen closet can be very overwhelming.  How about those towels?  Do you have some that are so old that you are not sure what their true color was?  Go through and keep the ones you ONLY use.  The rest can be cut up for rags.  I organize my towels by size so that I can reach in an grab just what I need.  Remember our conversation about the storage bins when I lived in a 900 sq. ft. house.  Use that same technique here no matter what size closet are you have.  I chose clear for visual purposes.  But there are some beautiful and fun storage bins that you can get.  Try TJ Maxx or Tuesday Morning.  When you open your closet that should be pretty too, right?

I hope these will help.  And as always I enjoy your emails, comments and posts.  Thank you for following me and enjoying my blog.  I am really having so much fun.  I forgot how much I like to write.

Decluttering Your Living Space

Good morning.  It is a beautiful sunfilled day here in Atlanta. I hope that you are moving through your piles of stuff and clearing out.  As you keep going, you will find how much lighter you feel when you walk into the room.  I know that when I came from completing (along with my team) a 100,000 sq. ft. furniture showroom each market, I would walk into my small decluttered home and I instantly felt comfort.

In my earlier blogs, I have talked about decluttering your closets and starting with small areas of space.  I believe by now you are getting the hang of it.  So let's look at ways to organize what you still want to keep.

Do you have a good bit of  framed family photos that are sitting on furniture?  Or lying in a drawer or book somewhere?  Do you want to display them but do not want one more thing to dust?  I would suggest that you pick your favorites first.  A great way to display them is on the wall.  If they are family photos I usually prefer to hang them down the hall or in a home office.  I would choose at least 3 different frame styles to use.  First arrange them on the floor in front of the wall area you want to use.  Try placing them 2-3" apart and grouping them together.

With the remaining photos, scan them into a computer and save them on a disk.  Or you can take them to a shop that will do this for you.  I suggest organizing them by family members, events or dates. Label the disk and purchase a disk storage for them.  I would place them in a fireproof safe in the attic or basement.

I hope that these suggestions are helpful to you.  Less clutter will free you.

Til tomorrow.....