Whether you're a homeowner or a renter, running a household and keeping your daily home life organized can be quite exhausting if there isn’t a set order in place.
However, you can ease some stressors of maintaining your home and utilize your time more efficiently by creating lists organizing household tasks and needs.
Make your bed as soon as you get your day started
Before getting your day started, it’s a great habit to make up your bed. Making your bed gives your room a cleaner and more polished appearance, and can also be a mood booster.
Studies have shown having a cleaner living space can increase your generosity, improve focus and decision-making, and even magnify your creativity.
Create a chore list & cleaning schedule
No matter the size of your living space, chores can amount quickly. Between the dishes, laundry, vacuuming, sweeping and other needed cleaning tasks - it’s easy to become overwhelmed with all that there is to do.
However, creating a chore list and schedule can help you prioritize areas of your home in need of maintenance and cleaning, as well as remember when these items need to be addressed. You can also use this list to assign certain tasks to members of your household to ensure duties are divided for maximum efficiency.
Make use of storage devices
Over the years, your belongings, such as gadgets, clothing and other goods can start to pile up. With proper storage in place, you can sort, organize and neatly keep items sorted away.
Consider investing in shelves, storage bins, cabinets, and other storage solutions to track where your items are and keep them off the floor.
Sort mail as soon as it’s brought into the house
With so much promotional content, bills and other material being sent to your mailbox, sometimes it’s easy to simply throw mail on the table to sort at a later time. However, if you take the time to sort through your mail as soon as it’s taken out of your mailbox, you can decrease the amount of clutter in your home and figure out which items to prioritize.
With excellent storage, checklists and basic upkeep - you can make your house feel like a home and keep your space organized.
About the Author
Carolyn Andrews
Carolyn Andrews has over 30 years licensed Brokerage experience in both California and Colorado. Born in England, Carolyn moved to California in 1980, then relocated to Denver, Colorado in 1991. Carolyn has also received recognition for Top Sales at RE/MAX Alliance Aurora in 2007-2008 and is a member of the RE/MAX Hall of Fame & Chairman’s Club, as well as a recipient of the ReMax Lifetime Achievement Award. Carolyn has sold over 2000 homes personally in her career. Carolyn has been actively involved in many aspects of the Real Estate business including investment property, luxury homes, mountain resort property, skiin/ski out, REO/default management, loss mitigation, valuations, and disposition. She has been a speaker and panelist at several conferences and has been consulted on many occasions by various organizations in the REO/financial industries for her expertise and served on many boards. She has attended numerous ongoing classes to stay abreast of changes in the ever-evolving Real Estate industry. She is the prior State Director for Colorado for VAREP(Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals). She is a member of 3 boards of Realtors including Metro Denver, Colorado Springs and Summit County mountain areas. She heads up The Andrews Group and is or has been an active member of NAR, CAR,REOMAC, CIPS, CRS, AREAA, NAPW, NAHREP, and is an original member of the ELITEReal Estate network. She was ranked #1 for most homes sold in Denver 2007 by Denver Board of Realtors, #2 for 2008, and #2 for 2009, #5 in 2010 and #4 in 2011 and has been consistently in the top 10 ever since. Carolyn Andrews has been a top rated Endorsed Local Provider for the Dave Ramsey Organization and also a Top Producing agent for 2018 for the Homelight Company.
