5 Tips for Keeping Your Vehicle Organized
Posted: October 5, 2014 Filed under: Home Routine Planning, Office Organizing, Organizing Products | Tags: Business, car organizing, containers, office organizing, organizing with children, vehicle orgaznizing Leave a commentVehicles are used as mobile offices, restaurants, entertainment centers, locker rooms and homework stations. Keeping a car clean can be easy. Here are 5 tips to help you organize your vehicle.
1. Have a plastic garbage bag in the front and back seats of your vehicle. It can be hooked on the headrest or armrest. Make sure all garbage is put in the bag and not all over the floor. When the bag gets full unhook it and put it in your garbage can on the way into the house.
A plastic garbage bag can be hooked on armrests.
Place a garbage bag in the back seat by hanging it over the head rest.
A garbage bag can be anywhere in the car, just make sure it is used.
2. If you have a young child keep a backpack ready at the door to take with you in the car. Fill it with things your child can use to entertain themselves. When you arrive at home put everything back in the back and bring it in the house. This prevents toys, papers and video games from being left all over the car.
3. Cup holders are a great invention. Put a clean tall cup in the holder and use it to hold pens, pencil crayons, small toys, notes, papers, snacks. It will help to keep items confined to a space and prevent them from being lost in the vehicle.
Use a cup for your change. it will be easier to retrieve your change . Keep the cup in your cup holder.
Bring snacks from home and keep them in your cup holder
Use a cup holder for children’s toys
4. If you use your car for an office try using a bin, box, bag to contain all your supplies. There are a number of portable offices organizers available or make one that is personalized for your situation.
Customize your own portable office for your specific needs
This organizer keeps the seat clear for items while organizing your office supplies
This office organizer attaches to the seat so it won’t end up on the floor of your vehicle
This is a portable office that can easily be taken with you to the car, meetings, library or hockey arena
This mobile work station can help to keep your work organized
5 .Keep disposable wet wipes in the glove compartment for quick clean ups and always take everything out of the vehicle when you arrive at home. Use the car door pockets and seat back pockets for items that permanently stay in the car. If you start with a clean vehicle on every trip it is easier to keep it clean.
Take everything out of the car each time you arrive at home.
Keep disposable wet wipes for quick clean ups of spilled drinks, and dirty hands.
Be ready to jump in your car and go and enjoy your trip, short or long
Keep Clutter on the Run
Posted: August 13, 2013 Filed under: Organizing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: containers, decluttering, organizing, storage 1 CommentThree Steps to Organizing
- Consolidate items into groups
- Containerize groups in sturdy, proper sized containers that are labelled
- Condense items so you have the appropriate amount of items in each group
Follow Two Routines
- Do four things in the morning
- Do four things in the evening
Five Habits to Keep Clutter on the Run
- If you get it out, put it away
- Apply the 30 second rule – if it takes 30 seconds or less to do something, do it immediately
- Follow the camping rule – leave the room the way your found it or better
- Look, really look at your surroundings to see what is out of place
- Use “little minute” to clean – those few minutes while you are waiting for someone, on hold on the phone, watching a pot boil
Containers can be anything, this is a great way to use magazing holders in the kitchen
Swoop Bags
Posted: April 4, 2013 Filed under: Organizing Products, Uncategorized | Tags: containers, organizing with children, toys Leave a commentDo you have children in your family with Lego laying allover the floor? Here is a fun organizing tool to make cleanup of toys easy and fun . Check out swoop bags. www.swoopbags.com
Tips for Storage Rooms
Posted: March 14, 2013 Filed under: Organizing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: containers, decluttering, storage, storage rooms Leave a commentThere are a number of questions to ask yourself before you purchase shelving for your storage room.
stow your items behind doors
open shelving unit
Do you like things displayed on open shelves or stowed behind closed doors? This will help you determine if you want a cupboard or shelving.
Next measure the space. You need to get storage that uses all the area and not buy storage that leaves some of the area unusable because one storage unit is too large and another storage unit can fit into the remaining space.
Next ask yourself, will you open a lid to put things into a container, will you reclose the top of a box? If the answer is no then cut the flaps off the box or purchase containers without lids. You want to make it as easy as possible to get the items into the correct box.
- will you reclose the flaps
crate are great if you won’t put a lid on a container
Lastly ask yourself, if your bins are stacked will you unstack them to put something in the bottom container? Will you restack the containers on the storage unit? If your answer is no then buy large containers that fill the vertical space between the shelves so you can maximize your storage. It is usually good to have two or three containers on each shelf. One big got your storage units and bins.
- Store items you use frequently at eye level.
- Store heavy items on the bottom shelf
- Store items close to where you use them
- Store infrequently used items up high or in less accessible areas.
Trying to store hockey bags? Try placing two shelving units that are 4 or 5 shelves high, with 24” or 36” deep shelves, one in front of the other and securely attach them together. This will hold one bag per shelf with room to leave it open to air out and place some items on the shelf beside the bag to dry.
With the right shelves and bins it is easy to sort your items into categories, place them in a labeled container and locate them in your storage room. Remember to keep only what you need and love.
