Hiding Clutter in Less Time 2014 Ideas

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're short on time, targeting your efforts to a specific organization task can work wonders for overall decluttering in your home. Try these tasks  which can be done in as little as five minutes  to start conquering clutter. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6b3CBvZCwciyg_v2YDL5BkNsA5u4oQOXqtDnQ_TT5HwyfgHTXYkouEzuHMoayMzJ_jesALusRp595Xwz9Q7DrVmXGigu6Y2fstvGeVmrhX4MeDClpuuv6LIq724S7pP9r4yCnnBQCZP4/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Declutter the Bathroom </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 5 minutes:</b> Put away anything on the countertops, and pull the shower curtain closed to conceal any bathtub clutter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 10 minutes:</b> Straighten any open displays, and relocate items that don't belong in the bathroom. Don't worry about what's behind closed doors.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 15 minutes:</b> Dive into the vanity cabinet and any other storage space. Toss items that are outdated or unused. Corral items by type into baskets or bins. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUBc1AbqJ_0n7BsPc1b33eSCcHpYilrS8TlVVUtA6x0djofk_F5Jsp0AKw0gVUOGZW7vEeOmVCXwyuqbyud-t2YzE2QcYh_0S3stcArocrfq4pI10K6mqCjE6jlmOHtxFUdDuVr2TO10/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas-2.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Declutter Your Pantry </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 10 minutes:</b> Stack and store items as they are, but align rows of cans and boxes for a neatened appearance.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 15 minutes:</b> Regroup food by item type. Toss anything that is expired. Wipe away any spills or dirt on shelves.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Take an hour :</b> Pull everything out of the pantry and do a deep reorganization. Look at your pantry configuration and what you need to store to determine what should go where. Keep the items you use frequently in the most accessible places. Give the shelves a good scrubbing before re-placing items. As you put things away, make a list of any storage accessories (such as trays or baskets) that would make your storage more efficient, and keep your eyes peeled for those items when you are out and about.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgajm2GUx1tlovzYOJxDeNIFW7kmCy6izraQaLZnTwFDfq8REeHNW78zodFLoH8HfbAxtoYDg7Fy0e9Sc0zDkUd-6RzT-aeOZ1PTkNevv5KwZQIVdWrQqf-10dNOmFspZhCOthaYG_8z-s/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas-3.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Declutter Your Message Center </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 5 minutes: </b>Take a quick glance at the place where you stash all your important reminders, such as a bulletin board, magnet board, or refrigerator. Pull down anything that you immediately see as outdated or no longer needed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 10 minutes:</b> Dig a little deeper if your message center is overflowing. Spend a little more time going through the items.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 15 minutes: </b>Take everything off the message center and sort into piles: keep on the board (telephone numbers, etc.), move elsewhere (paid bills, pictures, etc.), and toss (anything you don't need).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZ0w1jEB_odUaBWpi8Wl4P0LHAAk_EEmc1fRc5KcpbhaEe6yiXM2wVIjirMxmVTANxyOhjwnzturO5NJ1PCQE80TDqTD3v3lZ9jCUherTi2IS5_MchT7eX4Y3JbyVpmJ_pnhU76vszVM/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas-4.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Declutter Your Plastic Container Collection </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 5 minutes:</b> Separate lids and containers into their own spots.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 10 minutes:</b> Organize lids and containers by size.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 15 minutes: </b>Pull out the lone lids or containers. Pair up lids and containers that match, and discard anything that doesn’t have a match. Place the items back in an organized fashion.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIlx0mlQ_5kvOFaBtDhcS8bLH67Wjzv4W44moe6e95IHXvNG_wxmgvaHJszbvtp0ca5ehXrtMSATIFxrlkuzi67ibP83BY1DjfxSzUpofszHGik27dqvj042qV3qFV5W16YovGZsYz20/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas-5.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Declutter Your Bookshelves </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 10 minutes:</b> Straighten books, and dust the very edges of the shelves and any items on display that look dusty.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 15 minutes:</b> Do a quick sort. Recycle magazines that are out of date. Pull books that you know at a glance need to be donated. Dust the shelf edges and around empty space, and move display items to dust around and under them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Take an hour :</b> Pull everything from the shelves. In addition to recycling magazines and pulling books to be donated, reorganize books in alphabetical order, by subject, by color, etc. Dust the full shelves before placing books back in their rightful spots.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-M5GAzfF7aB-Pu6-pi2xhx1qMVG8ONDwFdan5mhvl6GaoJZOEWzCCFqYL3wIIrwQXLSc5Ybli_eQXS1_aWfpUYem6QFzf72CpqS6UbyBR7XIEhxae-Y-xVQIUp_EwxefZWkWpSZdg2qc/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas-6.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Declutter Your Kitchen Cabinets </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 5 minutes:</b> Simply straighten the insides of your most disorganized or most frequently accessed cabinets and drawers. Bringing order to the things you use most often will make daily routines easier.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 10 minutes: </b>Spend a little time doing the organizational tasks you always think about when you're cooking but don't have time to do in the moment, such as relocating your cooking utensils to a drawer closer to your range.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Take an hour : </b>Do a quick sort and toss. Put items you never use into a donation box, and toss gadgets that no longer work or are past their prime.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMQkyefkAXXT5o_huKaUISS04Z0Cn3Z65MuqpgxO9sJ68R-F8CZD0gjdRUOBocD1umyuwJ0CvX1xMiXNUBSGBlKUFWkJMlapy1V_2iqQj3I97NVlcTWumID4hB5XLby73nXHaf_wuFXk/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas-7.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Declutter Your Jewelry </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 10 minutes: </b>Place earrings and rings in small divided trays and bracelets and bulkier necklaces in shallow bowls. (Delicate necklaces are easily tangled and should be hung up or laid aside, if you're in a hurry.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you have 15 minutes:</b> Do a purge and sort, eliminating things you no longer wear.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Take an hour :</b> Hang fabric covered memo boards for hanging necklaces. Place a piece of grating in another frame and hang earrings from the grill.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibi_RxCoegoaXQwXq6NCoLWk5-CAvaENSpepzyNMaMEA7Vu-cnJhN6G3F3qGIXRSRxtvn-j6KIAvxDO8_N3ov2IgMxXOIzuRq4vj-U21ldEA8kc_yehFOjZc8-o9Rlb68F_N3pEDknhIM/s1600/Hiding-Clutter-in-Less-Time-2014-Ideas-8.jpg" width="480" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>5-Minute Decluttering: The Nightstand </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remove items that don't belong, and place everything else in a pretty box or basket.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div>

Hiding Clutter in Less Time 2014 Ideas

If you're short on time, targeting your efforts to a specific organization task can work wonders for overall decluttering in your home. ...

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