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Here’s How You Reuse Throw Away Items (50 pics. My Messy House » » Storage Room. If you’re lucky enough to have a storage room, you’re also “lucky” enough to know how easily clutter can build up.

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The storage room doesn’t necessarily need to be cleaned every week, but you should probably do some work on it at least once a month. If you can’t remember when the last time you worked in your storage room was, this weekend is the time to work on it. This is the perfect room to use the four-box method, because the boxes can stay there and wait for next time you’re working in the storage room.

You’ll need at least four boxes: keep, give away, undecided, another room. You’ll also need a garbage bag (I just take the whole box when I’m working in the basement) and a vacuum cleaner. A storage room can be overwhelming. Work until the timer goes off. Take the trash bag out to the trash. Emeeme: DIY Transformando una caja de bombones en caja de abalorios.

Hace tiempo que tengo guardada una caja de bombones de Godiva.

emeeme: DIY Transformando una caja de bombones en caja de abalorios

Era tan dorada, tan cuadradita y tan chula que me dió pena tirarla. Y el fin de semana pasado, me decidí a hacer algo con ella. Tenía medio localizados unos videos de como hacer cajas de origami, así que los busqué, compré cartulina negra, pedí que me la cortaran en cuadrados de 15x15 cm, y me puse a la tarea. Hice una caja. Y dos, y tres, y cuatro, y cinco.......hasta 16.

5 Tips for Organizing Dresser Drawers. We always focus on organizing your closet, which is definitely a vital storage area to keep clean and organized for easy dressing during the work week.

5 Tips for Organizing Dresser Drawers

But your dresser drawers are important too — save yourself just the smallest amount of time by cutting out the search for matching socks! Here are a few tips for getting your dresser drawers organized and keeping them that way. You know how it is — in the hustle and bustle of daily life you want to grab your clothes out of the drawer and go. Then, on laundry day, you drop your clean clothes in the drawer and promise you'll be back later to straighten up.

Well that day is today! 1. Clear Top Tin Containers. Oh-ho ho Pretty Beads… Craft Room Organization. Beader's Stash Contest Finalists, February 2008. Top Organization Tips from Readers - Daily Blogs. Organization Tips Large and Small Small Spaces = Organized Living?

Top Organization Tips from Readers - Daily Blogs

Another surprise for me was the number of contest entrants live in studio apartments, motor homes, or other small spaces. By necessity, these folks are masters at organization. Popular Containers for Beads Beaders love containers for other crafts like embroidery floss boxes and scrapbooking carts. And the winners are . . . Author Laura Levaas and I had a very challenging time selecting the winners from the 500+ entries in the Beader's Stash contest.

On the CheapElizabeth GormanI sticky-tape a freezer bag to the side of my beading desk to put all the rubbish ends of threads, broken pieces of wire, etc. On the RoadBetty NeveCurrent restrictions on what you can take on a plane have presented the beadaholic with the challenge of what you can use to bead with on a long flight. Bead StashChristine DeLioTo store my crystals, I purchased 100 10ml clear plastic lip balm jars with lids and small rare earth disc magnets.

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DIY Rotating Goal List. » 18 Five-Minute Decluttering Tips to Start Conquering Your Mess. “Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein I’ve written a lot about simplicity and decluttering (I can’t help it — I’m passionate about it!)

» 18 Five-Minute Decluttering Tips to Start Conquering Your Mess

And I’ve noticed that a lot of readers share my ideal of having an uncluttered home or workplace, but don’t know where to start. When your home is filled with clutter, trying to tackle a mountain of stuff can be quite overwhelming. So here’s my advice: start with just five minutes. Baby steps are important. Then take another five minutes tomorrow. For those who are overwhelmed by their clutter, here are some great ways to get started, five minutes at a time. Downsizing Days: Maximizing Your Closet Space/ DIY Coat Rack. Peter Walsh Blog. » How to Declutter an Entire Room in One Go. Post written by Leo Babauta.

» How to Declutter an Entire Room in One Go

Follow me on Twitter. My family is moving to another house this coming weekend, and to prepare for the move, we’re going through the entire house and getting rid of stuff we don’t need. The new house has much less storage, which I’ve decided is a blessing: it means we have to cut things down to the essentials. I’m pretty good at keeping things simple, but things tend to accumulate over time (especially in the kids’ rooms!). Moving day, btw, is a wonderful time to declutter.