(Non-Math Post) One Step Towards Organizing My House

Today's post service has nada to practice 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 twelvemonth is to learn to a greater extent than organized both at schoolhouse too at home. I've written several posts nigh my efforts to learn organized at school, but I actually haven't blogged nigh my efforts at home.

The mass that is helping me to reshape my thinking is The House that Cleans Itself by Mindy Starns Clark (affiliate link). The premise of the mass is to focus on why your identify (or classroom) gets messy. If nosotros makes things easier for ourselves to maintain construct clean too organized, nosotros guide hold a much ameliorate guide a opportunity of staying construct clean too organized.

Today I merely desire to percentage a duet of pocket-sized changes that guide hold resulted inward our identify staying much to a greater extent than organized. The theme is hangers. Here's what my hanger storage used to await like:

This handbasket sat on the flooring of the laundry room. Everyday, I had a conclusion to brand every bit I was getting dressed too educate for the day. I could accept my hangers too walk across the identify to the laundry room to position them away, or I could accept the hangers too hang them off ane of the knobs on the cabinets higher upwardly the closet. Once I made the latter conclusion once, I would choke on doing so. Except, presently I would guide hold to hang the novel hangers off of other hangers to brand room. Eventually, these would halt upwardly tumbling to the flooring too laying in that place until I went through the identify inward a cleaning frenzy.

I went looking on Pinterest for a solution.

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

I practice guide hold to acknowledge that my hubby did all the run later on this point. I told him what to purchase too showed him the picture, but he did the actual purchasing too hanging of the brackets.

Here's the finished product:

This solely solved business office of my hanger problem. The hangers inward my laundry room at nowadays looked much to a greater extent than organized. In a way, it was almost fun to position a hanger on the brackets. This all the same didn't cure the fact that ofttimes I was also 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 2 of these - ane 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 right away into the hanger hamper. No excuses. This way that my hangers are at nowadays too thence slowly to position away that I don't dread doing it.

When the hanger hamper gets total or nosotros run out of hangers inward the laundry room, it's slowly to carry the hangers to the laundry room too hang them off the shelf brackets.

Does my identify remain magically construct clean now? No. I definitely guide hold a long way to go. But, hangers are no longer a source of clutter too mess. Now, I merely demand to discovery solutions for all my other problems.

Thanks for putting upwardly amongst a post service that has null to practice amongst math or education! Don't worry. I'll move dorsum to posting nigh teaching tomorrow!