22 of the Best Organizing Tips And Ideas
                     22 of the Best Organizing Tips 
And Ideas
• A lot of organisers will be telling you about 
following their decluttering challenges for the 
new year. We all have enough going on in our 
lives right now, without facing challenges, so 
instead I want to share with you my 22 best 
organising tips and ideas to help you tackle 
your clutter this year. 
• Don’t declutter, do a mini-declutter - spend 15-20 minutes on one 
area say a shelf in the kitchen, your coffee table or a small 
cabinet in your bathroom. Get rid of everything that you do not 
use, like, wear, fit into and is generally taking up valuable real 
estate in your home. Do this every day and you will get rid of a 
huge amount of stuff.
• Categorise the items left in each area so that like for like items are 
together.
• Redo the mini-declutter in the categorised piles to see if you can 
get rid of anything else. 
• Decide what storing solutions will work for you based on what 
you have kept. 
• Label any boxes or areas to build the habit of staying 
organised. 
• If you buy one thing, get rid of two.
• If you really want to decant your laundry detergent 
into a drinks dispenser, ok, but really don’t waste your 
time creating more work and clutter unnecessarily. 
• If you buy online and it is a fail, give it back. Go to 
your account, order, return and organise for it to go 
back and to get that refund in cash. 
• To store your linen - put the full set in a pillow case. Saves you 
having to search for all the parts to do the bed. 
• See the clothes and not the hangers 
– Use black velvet hangers * to hang dresses, tops, shirts, trousers, 
abayas, dishdashes and light jackets. 
– Use wooden hangers to hang coats, jackets, suits and heavy abayas 
and dresses.
• Review your medicine every six months to see what has 
expired. If you have any new medicine that has not expired and 
not using, 
• Clear up space in your kitchen cupboards, but reviewing best 
before dates on food items every month.
• Declutter electronic devices in your kitchen that you don’t use. See 
if someone else will use it or donate it to charity. 
• Throw any broken electronics - toasters, kettles, etc - into the 
recycle bin rather than keeping them and taking up valuable real 
estate. 
• Collect all the pens in the house and sit in front of the tv watching 
a good movie whilst testing the pens to see which are to be kept 
and which are to go in the recycle bin. 
• Keep out of season clothing such as winter jumpers in boxes at the 
top of your wardrobe. 
• Store cashmere and other special wooly items in acid free tissue * 
when not in use. 
• Toys - declutter old, broken and unused toys out of the room. 
• Rotate the toys by leaving 1-2 box of toys within easy reach for the 
kids and the rest of the toys in storage. At the end of the month 
swap the boxes. 
• Use the acronym FAT to deal with paper and emails. FAT stands for 
File, Act and Toss.
• Review your books every few months and donate or freecycle the 
ones you have finished, not reading or just getting dusty to 
someone who may enjoy it. 
• Speaking of books, if you need more tips on how to organise your 
home, you buy my new book “Can you Find it in Five Seconds” by 
licking on the link here. https://www.decluttrme.com/