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