Clearing Up the Clutter Spaces in Your Home

Places that can quickly get out of hand in the home are the surfaces. Flat surfaces just begging to be covered in the daily mail, work papers, shopping bags, or child’s homework.

The problem is usually created by procrastination.”I’ll put it away later.” , “I’m going to use that so I’ll just leave it here until I need it.” Then these spaces can take a while to be cleared off and in the meantime build up to be even more of an eyesore and nuisance.

So let’s take action today and clear up those junky spaces.

We’ll just look at two so that can give you a nice starting point if you have anymore.

For every problem of organizing there is a solution that should neither break the bank nor require the services of a professional.

We can begin to set up different areas of our home so that they have adequate space for the activities that take place there.

The Front Area-

Your front entrance is not necessarily a room. There should be as little as possible in the way of furniture and decoration. Other than coats and umbrellas the things that can get out of place here are the mail and keys.

If you have the room a small table for mail and packages and a little bowl for keys is a perfect way to contain excess. Keep a small pail to dump junk mail.

If you have not the room (I meant to say it like that) a little key hanger on the back of your closet door or on the wall at the entrance takes care of keys. For mail, to keep the junk factor down, move it to another area of the home.

The Kitchen Counter-

Kitchen counters are also big junk magnets. Usually the excess place for mail. Especially if there is no space at the front of the house. You can come up with either a place to put the mail in the kitchen or in another part of your home. Simple solutions can be had for corralling clutter in the kitchen. Decorative boxes, in wood or cardboard as your budget allows can make a junky pile seem almost stylish.

These are only two places that can quickly become junk magnets in any home. It maybe be different in your home. In our home the bedroom dresser tops, office desk, and even my piano seem to call members of the family to “take a load off”.

Here are few other tips to taming these places.