I grew up in a house that was not at all
organized. There were some rooms that were just “junk” rooms and became
the catch all for anything that needed to be moved out of a main room or no
longer had a use in the house but my parents couldn’t stand to part with the
item. We also had a lot of “junk”
drawers that were full of things that needed to be put away but they didn’t
have a normal place to go so it was thrown into that drawer. When I got married, I decided that I didn’t
want my house to be that way. I wanted
everything to have a place that is belongs or it needed to be given away. I wanted others to be able to come to my
house and walk into any room and not feel ashamed for the mountain of stuff
that didn’t have a place to go. My house
is far from being always clean but I do know that I can tell my boys to clean a
room and they know exactly where every item goes. I am also a fan of using bins for organization. My kids can open up the cupboard with the
school supplies and pull out any item that they need. They can grab the container for crayons, grab
a pencil out of the pencil box, or grab an eraser from its container. I don’t have a drawer just full of junk. Everything has a place and when I open up a
drawer that might have a few different items in it, they are marked and placed
together. I like walking into a space in
my house and not feeling overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that always accumulates
as we go through life. We have lived in
some small spaces. Sometimes it can be
hard to give everything a designated place.
That is when I use some tricky organization skills or just take a look
at what I have and see if I really need it or if it is just taking up space. I really feel like it helps a house to feel
more like a home when there are not piles of stuff taking over. I know that I probably am giving my kids a
complex and now they will become hoarders when they are adults but we all have
to scar our children in some way, right?
