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Charm Asks: What's your best organizing tip?

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Charm asked our readers, "What's your best organizing tip?" Here's what they said:

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"My best organizational tip is three words: Sterilite and Rubbermaid! Organizing your attic and closets using these handy and stable storage boxes is awesome! Make sure you label your boxes."
Karen Fleet, 41, Hallsville

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"My children are responsible for hanging up their own clean clothes. To make things simpler for them, I have them move their empty hangers to the front of the rod as they wear the clothes. This keeps me from hearing the old tune ‘I don’t have any hangers!' "
Elizabeth Wilbanks, 38, Longview

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"After you are done using paper towels, don’t throw away the cardboard tube that holds the paper towels. Instead, use them to store the plastic bags that you may get from stores. Store the tubes in your pantry, or even in the side compartments or backseat storage areas in your car. You save space and get rid of clutter without looking at all those plastic bags all over your pantry or in your car, and you save money by not having to buy a plastic bag holder at the store. Furthermore, when the cardboard tubes get old or you accumulate too many of them, you could always reuse them again for a child to use as a sword."
Cindy Ezell, 39, Longvew

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"My best organizational tip is using see-through plastic tubs with lids. I use them for almost everything – crafts, seasonal items, clothing. They are cheap and easy to store!"
Amy Satterwhite, 30, Longview

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"Make a list of everything that needs to be done, go over the list and prioritize, then make one ‘pile’ of everything on your desk or in the room that you want to organize and take one thing at a time. Once you start working through your pile, you will come to things that can’t be completed immediately so write on your list (next to that particular thing) where you got to in completion of that task. That way the next day or next time you look at the list you know exactly where to pick back up. Having only one pile on your desk or moving everything over to one side in a room you’re wanting to organize gives you a clear working environment and a clear mind to visualize what you want to do."
Kat Owens, 22, Longview





 

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