(Non-Math Post) 1 Pace Towards Organizing My House

Today's postal service has goose egg to practise amongst math, but it's something I desire to percentage because I'm proud of it.  One of the goals I've been working toward this schoolhouse yr is to larn to a greater extent than organized both at schoolhouse as well as at home.  I've written several posts virtually my efforts to larn organized at school, but I actually haven't blogged virtually my efforts at home.  

The majority that is helping me to reshape my thinking is The House that Cleans Itself by Mindy Starns Clark (affiliate link). The premise of the majority is to focus on why your family (or classroom) gets messy. If nosotros makes things easier for ourselves to hold construct clean as well as organized, nosotros own got a much ameliorate peril of staying construct clean as well as organized.

Today I only desire to percentage a brace of small-scale changes that own got resulted inwards our family staying much to a greater extent than organized.  The topic is hangers.  Here's what my hanger storage used to hold back like:

This handbasket sat on the flooring of the laundry room.  Everyday, I had a conclusion to brand every bit I was getting dressed as well as create for the day.  I could own got my hangers as well as walk across the family to the laundry room to position them away, or I could own got the hangers as well as hang them off 1 of the knobs on the cabinets higher upward the closet.  Once I made the latter conclusion once, I would croak on doing so.  Except, shortly I would own got to hang the novel hangers off of other hangers to brand room.  Eventually, these would cease upward tumbling to the flooring as well as laying at that spot until I went through the family inwards a cleaning frenzy.

I went looking on Pinterest for a solution.

Image Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/249879479305552765/

I practise own got to acknowledge that my hubby did all the operate later this point.  I told him what to purchase as well as showed him the picture, but he did the actual purchasing as well as hanging of the brackets.

Here's the finished product:

This solely solved business office of my hanger problem.  The hangers inwards my laundry room straightaway looked much to a greater extent than organized.  In a way, it was almost fun to position a hanger on the brackets.  This even then didn't cure the fact that oft I was likewise lazy to walk all the way to the laundry room each fourth dimension I needed to position away a hanger.

Enter the hanger hamper (affiliate link).  I purchased ii of these - 1 for each of our closets.

These hampers sit down on the flooring correct within (or exterior - it depends on the closet!) the door.  When I position on an article of clothing, the hanger goes guide into the hanger hamper.  No excuses.  This agency that my hangers are straightaway then tardily to position away that I don't dread doing it.

When the hanger hamper gets total or nosotros run out of hangers inwards the laundry room, it's tardily to carry the hangers to the laundry room as well as hang them off the shelf brackets.

Does my family remain magically construct clean now?  No.  I definitely own got a long way to go.  But, hangers are no longer a source of clutter as well as mess.  Now, I only demand to uncovering solutions for all my other problems.

Thanks for putting upward amongst a postal service that has null to practise amongst math or education!  Don't worry.  I'll hold upward dorsum to posting virtually teaching tomorrow!

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