How To Organize Your Home In 30 Minutes or Less: 5 Tips From Professionals

by John Griffith
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You might think we’re crazy. Organizing the home in just half an hour? Yep. It’s actually more achievable than you may think. While yes, you won’t deep clean and declutter in depth for just 30 minutes, you’d be surprised how some small things can make a big difference to the space. So, let’s see some tricks on how to organize your home in 30 minutes or less.

You’d be surprised how some small things can make a big difference

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How To Organize Your Home

Whether your bathroom or kitchen drawers and cabinets need organizing, we’ve got you. No part of the house is safe from our organization tips. You’ll have a decluttered and tidy space in no time!

No part of the house is safe from our organization tips

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One Room At A Time

Organization is a stressful task. And it can very quickly become way too overwhelming. Which then leads to you leaving it for another time. And then the cycle repeats itself until you’re stuck with a ton of stuff to do. That’s why organizational experts suggest to start small and tackle one space at a time. Take a good look around, what space needs to be organized first? The co-founder of Neat Method, Ashley Murphy, recommends choosing a space that you use the most and tackle it first. This is because it will make a big impact on your daily life. After all, a tidy space equals a tidy mind.

Organization is a stressful task

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Hang Clothes In The Same Direction

This one may seem lame, but you’d be surprised what a huge change it can make. This is a simple, but clever trick for a quick closet organization which goes a long way and takes no more than ten minutes, depending on the size of your closet. All you need to do is hang all your clothes in one direction. Another good rule to have for the long way, according to Corrie Jackson (Co-founder of Maison Haven), is the following. Each time you wear something from the clothing rack put it back, but in the opposite direction. If anything has been left in the original direction after six months for example hasn’t been worn, and it’s best to let it go.

This is a simple, but clever trick for a quick closet organization

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Grab And Go Space

We love this tip! It’s personally saved me up a lot of unnecessary clutter at home and can be used for a variety of things. Have a designated space for things that you need to grab and go. For example, get a cute bowl to keep your keys, wallets, and sunglasses. These are all things that you need to just grab and go, and it creates a space you can easily return them when you come back home. Prompting you to keep them in their designated space and not thrown all over the home. It also saves you the headache of wondering where your things are.

Have a designated space for things that you need to grab and go

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Don’t Put It Down, Put It Away

We’re all guilty of this one. Have you ever picked something with the intent to put it away, but you just end up carrying it a long time only to place it somewhere even more out of place than you originally found it? Yea, we’ve been there. That’s why remembering this rule is essential. This bad habit not only creates clutter, it also creates quite the unpleasant situation when we finally need that thing and have no idea where it is. Take a moment to return something to its place, don’t just put it down.

Remembering this rule is essential

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The 10 Minute or 60-Second Rule

What these rules mean essential is to break down your time. When we here it’s time to organize and declutter, we get overwhelmed. You start thinking how now you’ll have to spend hours rummaging and pacing to place things where they are supposed to be. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are plenty of instances during the day when you have at least 10 minutes. Dedicate those 10 minutes to tidying up. No more, no less. This will help keep you sane and make the place a lot tidier. And you’d be surprised how effective and productive you can be when you know it’s only going to be 10 minutes of your time. The 60-second rule is kind of the same. Take one minute of your time to put things back in their place. Don’t let anything distract you. Just put things away for just a minute.

You’d be surprised how effective and productive you can be in 10 or 1 minute

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These were our tips on how to organize your home in just half an hour. We hope you found this article useful. Now you can have a beautiful, organized home without even breaking a sweat.

These were our tips on how to organize your home

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John Griffith

John Griffith is a young, passionate journalist. Writing has been John’s hobby ever since he was a boy. He has worked in some of the UK’s most successful news portals over the course of his professional career but found his forever home at Archzine.