Organize Your Home Without Spending A Cent
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Organizing your home doesn't have to cost a lot of money! Use common everyday objects that you already have to help keep belongings clean and neat. I've written other hubs about organizing our homes, so when I received these ideas in my email I thought I would share them with you.
1.) Sheets: Aren't you sick of trying to fold sheets neatly so they'll look nice when stored in the linen closet? Especially the fitted sheets! Sometimes my arms get so tired trying to hold them up and fold them neatly I think they are going to fall off. Well, it's time to quit trying so hard and start organizing my home to make my job easier. By keeping them in a matching pillow case, even when the folding job's not so great, you can hide the bulges and bumps! Look at this photo to see how neat they look! Not only that but the whole set is kept together so you don't have to dig through a stack of mismatched pillow cases and sheets looking for mates.
2.) Use a shower cap: For the traveler, try placing dirty shoes in a shower cap to keep your clothing clean when packing to go away. There always seems to be dirt on the soles of our shoes and packing them in a suitcase can result in dirty clothing. Put this handy hint to work to keep your clothes clean while traveling!
3.) Plastic bread ties: All of us who have computers, especially desktop PC's, put up with a mess of cords running here and there behind the computer. I dread moving my computer from one place to another because I never know which cord goes where! Here's a great way to solve that problem. Tag each cord by writing on plastic bread ties before moving your computer or even hooking up a new printer. This is a cost free way to avoid a big headache! I already save my bread twisters, so maybe it's time to save the plastic bread ties too.
4.) Velcro: Mom and dads, check this out. What a great way to keep those stuffed animals in order. Use velcro attached to the wall to hang babies buddy's up so there's no more stuffing them in a closet or toy box. All of your children's stuffed animals are lined up neatly in a row to keep them organized! For everything from stuffed animals to puppets or even slippers, this is a great idea.
5.) Muffin tins: Try this handy idea to help organize your home. Pull those muffin tins out of the cupboard and put them to good use! Place plastic cups into the muffin tins and store pencils and pens, paint brushes, scissors and other craft and office supplies. How colorful they look, and useful too! Just place them on a shelf or desk and grab when needed. Put an end to wasting time looking for these items when you're in a hurry.
6.) Wrapping paper: How clever is this? I've moved wrapping paper around in my closet when trying to get out a box of Christmas decorations. Every roll of wrapping paper falls down, flat on the floor. If it's not flat on the floor then it's tangles up in something else and ends up being torn. With the use of tiny screws and a wire, you can now keep your wrapping paper neat and tidy. This free organizational method works wonderfully and you still have room to place a box or plastic storage container in front of them, giving you more storage space!
7.) Gift boxes: Looky here! What a great way to serve cupcakes. You remember how messy they can be when placed on a plate or platter, don't you? By cutting an X in the top of a gift box cover you can easily serve cupcakes without the mess! Try this at a school function or birthday party! Great idea to cut down on cleaning time.
8.) Magnetic strips: This clever idea keeps bathroom articles organized! Simply glue the magnetic strip to the wall, inside a closet or even inside the medicine cabinet and attach items like bobby pins, barrettes, or even tweezers to keep track of them. They are not only organized but also easy to get to. There's no more digging through baskets and boxes looking for everyday bath items. It's time to start organizing my home so it's easier to find these small items that I keep in the bathroom.
Check out Other Organizational Hubs I've Written
- Organize Your House with Baskets!
Stay organized by using baskets! We use baskets of many sizes and shapes to store things. - Organize Your Home by Building Shelves
Creating more storage space in your home can help you become better organized by reducing unwanted clutter and saving time on housework. - Developing Organizational Skills
Developing organizational skills can keep the clutter from rising. Can't find anything? Keep digging! - Get Organized using Plastic Storage Containers
Fine tune your organizational skills and put storage bins to use in your home. Creating extra storage space is affordable and easy.
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Good evening, Pooilum! Thanks for the comment. I'm glad you found it useful!
Great Hub with some terrific ideas, and in my case, very timely as we are right now in the process of a huge re-organization and uncluttering project at our house, as a matter of fact, I am planning to use the sheets/pillowcases, and the velcro idea tonight! Thanks for helping us all stay organized! Shared and posted on my Facebook Wall. Voted up, useful, awesome, and interesting.
Very creative ideas.
Fabulous ideas and very well written! Bravo!
I love all of you! Thanks for the votes and kind comments. I appreciate it so much!!!
WOW!!! as a single mother of two, I am telling you, you have a knack for creative organizational ideas. love the hub voting this up!
I've been a single mother twice before, once divorced, once a widow. I'm praying for you! I'm so glad you could stop by to visit. I love your name, "Woman at the Well." Beautiful!
Lots of good ideas here. Enjoyed your hub.
Its really a great Hub with great ideas,as we are in the process of a re-organization of our house,I really discuss all these ideas with my family and use these ideas.Thanks for helping us all stay organized!
Voted up and Awesome.Keep writing.
Susie,
This was so helpful the sheets one got me..I loved it..boy do I hate wrestling with those sheets..alot of great ideas..bookmarking for sure..going to go read your others too..thanks so much.
Sunnie
Thank you, Moon Lake! I'm so glad you could visit!
Sounds like you're not alone in the reorganizing effort! Must be a winter thing. Thanks for commenting!
Sunny, Yes, me too. I hate folding those sheets too. Appreciate your visit. Nice to hear from you!
A couple of these I will definitely use. What great and easy-to-do ideas! The magnetic strip is great - I will put this inside my bathroom cabinet door; I'm always looking for those darn tweezers! And the sheet idea - so simple, it's fabulous. Thanks!
Thanks for visiting, Rosie. I think the magnetic strip is great too! Tired of the mess? Time to take action!
I love the muffin tin idea. My granddaughter loves to paint and has an easel with all the trappings. Her dad is at his wits end in trying to help her contain everything. I definitely will go buy a muffin tin with the little cups to fit and a few of your other ideas and take it to her. I know she will love it and her dad will too. Thanks. Voted up and useful.
Good idea, huh? I like that one too, along with all the others. I hope the muffin tin idea works for you! Thanks for visiting. My appreciation goes to you.
Many, many excellent tips! Voted up and useful! :)
Some great tips and money savers. I'd have never thought of the shower cap for that, but I have used plastic bags for the same job.
Thanks for your ideas, paying it forward! ;-)
These area great tips! I'm going to put the sheets/pillowcase one to good use. My linen closet is a disaster:) I'll be passing you hub onto my followers and I think Brett for sharing it (I ran across it in my feed from him!)
Thank you, Suzanne for visiting. You are appreciated!
These are terrific ideas - that pillowcase idea is going to be used at my house as well, and the wrapping idea. Voting up.
Brett, you and I both! We're all full of great money saving ideas. We just have to put on our "thinking caps," in addition to our shower caps! God bless.
Yes, the pillowcase one is good. If only I could get rid of all the "if onlys." Thanks for the visit!
Good morning, Millionaire Tips! Yes, they are both great ideas. I need to get out the wire for my wrapping paper. Thanks for stopping by!
I found all of your tips to be great and useful. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I'm using some and saving some...for a rainy day, that is. God bless and thanks for stopping by.
I am so glad that this was shared! I love all the ideas and plan to try many of them. Bookmarked and voted up!
These are some of the most creative ideas I've seen for organizing household items without spending a cent! There are several that I think I could put to use right now. I love the muffin tin idea - what a great way to organize little craft items that seem to get lost in the junk drawer! Voted up and shared.
Putting sheets in the pillow case is a fabulous idea and simple too. I'm always trying to find the right set for the right sized bed. If I fold them in the pillowcase and make sure one tag is hanging out I won't have that problem.
You have some really clever Ideas here. Thanks for sharing.
These are awesome ideas. I love being able to re-purpose regular items in the home. Thanks for sharing these great ideas. I wonder what would happen if they brought back McGuyver as a female (you)?
Nice hub with some fantastic ideas. My friends are planning to reorganize their house and I'm sharing this hub. I think these ideas will be useful to them. Rated up and useful.
I hope they work to your advantage, Instantly Family! Thanks for the visit and the bookmark and the vote.
Yes, that is a good one. I love the pillowcase idea! Glad you could visit. Much appreciation!
That Grrl, you are so right. What a simple idea, yet we don't think that way do we? We think of the difficult ones that cost money. Oh well...
These ideas didn't come from my head so don't give me too much credit! They came in my email from who knows who??? Anyway, I will accept your compliment. Thanks for visiting!
Ah, interesting thought! I appreciate your visit, Stephanie. Stop by again sometime; who knows, I may have some more to share!
I have other readers who are reorganizing right now Dinkan. They are trying some of them too. Hope they come in handy for your friends!
What great creative ideas these are, especially the fitted sheets in the pillow cases. They always drive me nuts. Not anymore. Thanks!!
I agree! I hate folding fitted sheets. Back in the day we used to use flat sheets with knots in the corners to keep them from coming untucked!
Very Nice Ideas. In other words the money saving ideas. Magnet Strip idea is great. We often lose Hairpins, common pins and needles as well. Using this idea we will always know where to get common pin or needle.
True! Anything that will stick to a magnet will work, except objects that are too heavy. Glad you could use some of these suggestions! Thanks for visiting!
I'm always looking for great organizing tips and I LOVE the sheets in the pillow case idea. Great hub :)
Thank you, Nwonderlin! Me too and I love writing about any ideas I wander across.
What fantastic ideas! I always need a bit of inspiration when it comes to organising! I'm going to try all of these.
I love my desk that has slots for mail! I feel like the postal worker delivering mail. Thanks for visiting. I'm glad you can use some of these ideas.
What a bunch of great ideas. I hate messiness. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! Hope you'll come back again sometime. God bless, Susieq42
SusieQ42, I came back to let you know that I have included this hub in my list of favorite hubs I've read this week. Congrats!
I shared this hub on my facebook. Great tips. Voted up!
Millionaire Tips, I'm so proud! Thank you very much. Maybe I'll get lots of visitors, huh? Come back any time and we'll have a cup of coffee.
Urmil, I really appreciate it! Thank you!
Love these solutions. Will definitely implement the bedding idea and also the wrapping paper one.
Thanks.
I love both of those too. My rolls of wrapping paper are a mess! Thanks for the visit!
I like the pillowcase and muffin tin ideas. Thanks for posting.
I appreciate the visit rmcrayne. I especially like the pillowcase idea. I also like the magnet for the bathroom.
This is quite possibly the best and most useful advice I could have hoped to find today! I am so bad about spending money in the hope of getting organized and then not using the things I buy b/c they weren't really what I needed. This advice will help me with that so much because I have everything on hand to get me started and if it doesn't work out (but I think these tactics all will!), I'm not out a single dime. Great job!
Thanks for reading, Jenscott. That's what I like about it too. We already have most of these things on hand.
ah! the pillow case trick and the magnetic strip! pure gold I tell ya!
I'm so glad you found some ideas here that you can use, Gypsy! I like both ideas and thought the velcro idea for stuffed animals was a cute way to display cuddly animals on the kids walls. Thanks for the visit. Much appreciation!
What absolutely wonderful ideas -- I particularly love the wrapping paper one -- I've stumbled over it or torn it for years -- definitely gonna do that one. Great Hub and voted UP. Best, Sis
Great ideas! I love the sheets in the pillowcases. I'm stealing that this second! Another thing that I do is that I keep all my spices in little metal tins, all labeled. I have magnetic strips above my stove and all my tins neatly aligned. Saves precious cabinet space for those of us with small kitchens and my spices are convenient.
Good morning, Angela and Julie. I appreciate your visit. While I haven't used all of these ideas myself, I too am working on setting them up. I like the magnetic strip and pillowcase ones too. (among others!) Thanks for the visit!
some useful tips. thanks for sharing
You're welcome. Thank you for visiting!
SusieQ42, Great ideas! I am all for organization! These are some good practical nifty suggestions! Thank You for sharing, Peace & Blessings!
You're welcome, Deborrah. So glad you could visit. I enjoyed writing this hub. Such cool ideas! Take care and God bless.
We are in the process of selling our home and keeping things organized is a challenge. Thank you for the tips. Your hub takes a lot of the stress out preparing my house for sale.
I've been there, done that. It is stressful to sell a home and try to keep it organized during the process! I'm glad you could use some of these tips to help. Thanks for stopping by. God bless!
Great tips to use. I love the pillow case idea, definately using that. Great article thanks for sharing!
Great tips on home organization. Everybody can do this :) Thanks for sharing
Great tips on home organization. Everybody can do this :) Thanks for sharing
Thanks, rls8994. I'm so glad you can use at least one of the above ideas. Have a great day! Susieq42
I appreciate the visit, cebutouristspot! This hub has proven useful for many. So glad you enjoyed it.
SusieQ42 great hub packed with wonderful and useful ways to utilize everyday things around the house. Thanks for sharing
Great post thank you. Im going to get right on with the sheet idea I hate the fitted ones and trying to keep them tidy.
Thanks, Cookies! Love your name; we are fans of cookies.
Top rated juicers, there are many who found that idea the most useful. We are all reorganizing our sheets! Thanks for visiting! God bless, Susieq42
I love these ideas. Thanks for the useful, low-cost information. So many low-cost ideas seem kinda...cheap-looking. These ideas actually seem like they would look good in the home.
Hi Natashalh! I think so too. The ideas here are nice to look at and are so useful. So glad you could visit! God bless, Susieq42
What terrific ideas. :) I love them all. I also search the local Good will on a regular basis looking for plastic storage crates or bins, little square plastic trays, and so forth. Finding them for 10-25% of their original price is great fun and then using them to organize the contents of my closets and cabinets is a lifesaver.
Great ideas, phdast7. I just purchased a plastic storage crate for my Christmas decorations a month or so ago. I was using cardboard boxes. I love the idea of running a wire to keep wrapping paper sorted.
I love these kind of ideas..using things for different purposes and saving money.
I love them too, Kathryn. They are inexpensive and original. Thank you for visiting!
These are amazingly creative ideas. In these time where we have to be very aware of money/budget these kids of ideas are wonderful. Voted up and useful.
pooilum Level 2 Commenter 4 months ago
This is real creative!! never thought of it! thanks for sharing!