12 Practical Tips to Get Organized

Even if you’re short on time or money, there are many low-cost, fun, and creative organizing ideas for you to start using to conquering your clutter.

1. Use wicker baskets to organize your linen closet, medical supplies, or food supplies.
2. Plastic caddies are perfect for grouping cleaning products, hair styling products, or spices.
3. Use a binder to store instruction manuals, take-out menus, or pages torn from magazines.
4. Decoupage metal cookie tins and use to store craft items, office supplies, or beauty products.
5. Use small glass jars to hold cotton swabs, pens and pencils, or craft items.
6. Plastic shopping bags can be reused as a garbage can liner, lunch bag, or doggie poop picker-upper.
7. Use a lazy susan to keep spices, hair styling products, or facial cleansers easy to find. Put taller items in the middle and smaller items around the edge.
8. Store your matching sheets inside a pillowcase. This not only makes your linen closet look neater, but the next time you need to change your sheets, you can stop searching your closet trying to find matching bedding.
9.  Use a magazine holder, whether it’s cardboard, plastic, or metal, to store maps, envelopes, legal pads, take out menus, or coloring books. Put one in your kitchen to hold your plastic wrap, aluminum foil, waxed paper, and storage bags.
10. Use a mason jar to keep your cupcake liners from being crushed in your drawer.
11. A new paint roller is an innovative way to showcase your bracelets. Slide your bracelets on the paint roller and store on top of your dresser, on a shelf, or in a drawer.
12. Put a cake stand on your bathroom counter. Any items you use on a regular basis go on the stand for easy access and easy clean-up.

What’s another low-cost way you stay organized?

Nancy Roe
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