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As your kids go back to school, crazy schedules challenge
your ability to keep up and mountains of school paperwork
begin to take over your home. There are some simple
home
organization tips
and strategies to help you keep track of
it all and keep your home in order.
1. Make a master schedule. It is a lot easier to keep
track of everyone if there is just one place in your home
where everyone’s schedule lives. My personal preference on
this one is having a whiteboard calendar where I can easily
put in appointments and erase them as necessary. If everyone
in your family has a different color on the calendar that
can help keep straight who is where. This is one of my
favorite home organization tips because it helps immediately
streamline scheduling for the whole family.
2. Create some organizational routines into everyone’s
day. Taking time every day to get organized is a great
habit to instill into your kids. Take some time to help them
organize their schoolwork projects. Help them figure out how
they need to plan out their day and their week so they can
get everything done that they need to do. Who knows, with
this home organization tip, maybe you will even pick up some
things that will help keep you organized every day.
3. Make sure that schoolwork that comes into your home
has a place to go. Because if it does not, chances are
that it will end up in all sorts of odd and unusual places
in your home. If you want to keep clutter at bay, this is
one of those vital home organization tips. You need to make
sure that your kids know where their schoolwork belongs and
what the consequences are if it is found elsewhere in your
home. Making sure that schoolwork has a place in your home
will save you headaches and wasted time looking for
schoolwork at the last minute in the morning.
4. Have a “needs action” board or place in your home.
If your kids need permission slips signed, a doctor’s note,
a picture for a class project, money for lunch, etc, having
a board or place where all of these kinds of things live is
a great time saver. Make it a house rule that everyone
checks the board daily. That way you can make sure that you
kids get what they need from you and you do not have to try
to track them down to get them what they need. Home
organization tips like these can not only be great time
savers but also help eliminate last minute headaches for you
and your kids.
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