| Home organization tactics include sorting items now, or | | | | them to the bank now---the real bank.SORT MAIL - In |
| ongoing, to save you time later on tedious chores and | | | | the old days, professional organizers suggested sorting |
| mundane tasks. Here are three items you can sort in | | | | your mail over a trash can. In today's world, you'd be |
| your home as you lay them down or put them away | | | | more secure making that "sort your mail over a trash |
| along with the home organizational details of how to | | | | can that's beneath your cross-cut shredder." That'll |
| do so.SORT LAUNDRY - Speed up your laundry | | | | prevent strangers up to no good from searching |
| chores by pre-sorting your dirty clothes. Use a | | | | through your trash to find credit card applications |
| three-compartment laundry sorter for this method | | | | pre-filled with your name and mail order catalog |
| (although you could substitute laundry baskets or bins | | | | pre-approved credit order forms (especially around the |
| too). These laundry sorters are usually comprised of a | | | | holidays when you get more of these).When you find |
| lightweight metal frame that holds a | | | | an invoice or bill, put it in a "daily organizer". A daily |
| three-compartment mesh or canvas laundry bag. | | | | organizer is a small rectangular box style gadget |
| Many online and walk-in retail stores sell them. | | | | stores sell. It has 31 slots to hold your bills, appointment |
| Designate a compartment for 1) whites, 2) gentle wash | | | | slips, timely notes, greeting cards to mail---whatever |
| and 3) regular color fabric washes.When you put | | | | you need to do or know on that day of the month. Put |
| clothes into the laundry sorter or hamper, immediately | | | | each bill as it arrives into a slot that's a week before its |
| put them into one of those three designated | | | | due date. Check this 31-day bill organizer daily to see |
| compartments. If you gently compress the dirty laundry | | | | what's due to send that day. Some of these pre-made |
| in each compartment, then when full it averages about | | | | bill organizers also contain drawers at the bottom to |
| a single full washing machine load. So you can easily | | | | hold pens and stamps. If you don't want to buy a |
| see when it's time to drop a laundry load into your | | | | 31-day bill organizer, consider using 31 manila folders. |
| washing machine. And it takes just seconds since | | | | Label one for each day of the month. Hang them in |
| you've pre-sorted the laundry ongoing. You can use a | | | | your home office drawer using some green hanging |
| separate laundry hamper to hold dirty towels and | | | | folders or put them in a portable file box and store it |
| linens.SORT COINS - If you're tired of finding loose | | | | somewhere convenient.See how sorting items now |
| coins in the washing machine and you're tired of | | | | can save you time later? You can apply this home |
| sucking them up accidentally with the vacuum, give | | | | organization technique to other items that need |
| family members their own own piggy bank. But not | | | | organizing in your home too. For instance, a little time |
| just any piggy bank. You need to give everyone the | | | | spent setting up a system to pre-sort hand tools and |
| grown up version of the piggy bank which is called a | | | | hardware in the garage or sewing items in your home |
| "Coin Sorting Machine". It's a miniature version of what | | | | will benefit you when you get ready to enjoy a project |
| you see in some banks where you drop coins into the | | | | using these items. Look around your home and you |
| hopper and the machine sorts it all out.The at-home | | | | may find other areas that you can apply this home |
| version is the "coin sorting machine" gadget. One | | | | organization method to.Karen Fritscher-Porter publishes |
| version seen in stores is a coin sorter that allows you | | | | where you can read hundreds of free tips with home |
| to dump up to 20 coins at a time into the hopper, push | | | | organization solutions, shop for home organization |
| a button and it sorts and counts them into wrappers | | | | products and subscribe to free home organization |
| that you place inside the tubes. You're ready to take | | | | newsletters. |