Smart tips To Organize Your Home With Minimum Stuff
Are you aware that a week before Thanksgiving Day offers you a great opportunity to learn how you can organize your home with minimum possible stuff? Yes, Use Less Stuff week falls on third Thursday of every November. This means that it falls a week before Thanksgiving to allow you to organize your house by utilizing less possible stuff. According to ULS reports, a considerable amount of waste is generated between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. In addition, ample of waste is witnessed even during rest of the years. The waste that is generated in just span of a month prior to New Year’s Day is estimated to be around 6 million tons.
If you wish to reduce this record of waste generation then you need to learn to organize your home with less possible things. Try to get rid of the stuff that you do not wish to use. Here are some tips that can help you to have less clutter around your house and maintain a more organized home by employing some easy techniques. By beginning with your kitchen and dining area during the period of Use Less Stuff Week, you can organize your sweet home in less possible time.
Here are some effective tips to help you in organizing your kitchen and dining area with less stuff.
1. Discover the forgotten stuff for right use: Work on organizing your pantry. Have a thorough look at the stock of canned goods, which you have at present. Separate the stuff that you will be using for the upcoming meals and feasts, which you are planning to organize in the coming holidays. Throw away the spices that you have not used in the past six months. Once you get to know what stuff you have got in your kitchen, you need not buy the same from the market. This will help you to avoid unnecessary purchase and you can even cut down your food expenses to a great extent. Moreover, you can even discover some forgotten stuff such as plastic utensils, party napkins, separate paper cupcake holders, by having a look in the back of your pantry. Such stuff can prove handy while organizing meals and parties during the holidays.
2. Use extra stuff to gift the guests: Make a list of all the glass bowls, tins, plastic bowls and other things that you have accumulated during the year and have preserved them thinking that you will use them sometime soon. If you have not used such items throughout the year and if you do not have any particular intention to use them then try to use these bowls and tins to give gifts to your party guests. Try to make them more attractive, while you plan to gift them to the guests. Fill these useful items with some leftover potato salad. This way you will not only use your preserved bowls in a right manner while organizing your home but also make your guest happy by gifting them an extra bowl for their kitchen use.
3. Use accumulated stuff in a fruitful manner: Gather the stuff that does not have any particular application and yet you have retained it over the year in a good condition. Such stuff includes place mats, potato mashers, extra peelers, cloth napkins and others. Why not make fruitful use of such things? You can give these useful items to your college going kids, cousins or their friends to organize their student apartment with such useful items. Such stuff can prove greatly useful for their living in the apartments and can even help them to save some amount of money. On the other hand, your drawers won’t be full of clutter anymore and you won’t contribute to increase the record of waste by throwing away these things
4. Useful applications of accumulated bags: Have you gathered plenty of plastic bags and now facing a dilemma whether you should get rid of them or not? The upcoming holidays can prove to be a great time to reuse such bags. Try to offer these accumulated bags to your guests to carry their doggy bags. You can even use these plastic bags to cushion gifts inside a box, which you wish to post by means of mail or some parcel service. Thus, you can make use of accumulated plastic holders without adding them to the heap of waste.
Thus, you can organize your home with minimum possible stuff and make right use of accumulated stuff rather than adding such stuff to the ever increasing list of waste. Practicing such usage of unwanted stuff through entire year will help you to decrease the amount of waste not only during the Use Less Stuff week but also throughout the year.
If you wish to reduce this record of waste generation then you need to learn to organize your home with less possible things. Try to get rid of the stuff that you do not wish to use. Here are some tips that can help you to have less clutter around your house and maintain a more organized home by employing some easy techniques. By beginning with your kitchen and dining area during the period of Use Less Stuff Week, you can organize your sweet home in less possible time.
Here are some effective tips to help you in organizing your kitchen and dining area with less stuff.
1. Discover the forgotten stuff for right use: Work on organizing your pantry. Have a thorough look at the stock of canned goods, which you have at present. Separate the stuff that you will be using for the upcoming meals and feasts, which you are planning to organize in the coming holidays. Throw away the spices that you have not used in the past six months. Once you get to know what stuff you have got in your kitchen, you need not buy the same from the market. This will help you to avoid unnecessary purchase and you can even cut down your food expenses to a great extent. Moreover, you can even discover some forgotten stuff such as plastic utensils, party napkins, separate paper cupcake holders, by having a look in the back of your pantry. Such stuff can prove handy while organizing meals and parties during the holidays.
2. Use extra stuff to gift the guests: Make a list of all the glass bowls, tins, plastic bowls and other things that you have accumulated during the year and have preserved them thinking that you will use them sometime soon. If you have not used such items throughout the year and if you do not have any particular intention to use them then try to use these bowls and tins to give gifts to your party guests. Try to make them more attractive, while you plan to gift them to the guests. Fill these useful items with some leftover potato salad. This way you will not only use your preserved bowls in a right manner while organizing your home but also make your guest happy by gifting them an extra bowl for their kitchen use.
3. Use accumulated stuff in a fruitful manner: Gather the stuff that does not have any particular application and yet you have retained it over the year in a good condition. Such stuff includes place mats, potato mashers, extra peelers, cloth napkins and others. Why not make fruitful use of such things? You can give these useful items to your college going kids, cousins or their friends to organize their student apartment with such useful items. Such stuff can prove greatly useful for their living in the apartments and can even help them to save some amount of money. On the other hand, your drawers won’t be full of clutter anymore and you won’t contribute to increase the record of waste by throwing away these things
4. Useful applications of accumulated bags: Have you gathered plenty of plastic bags and now facing a dilemma whether you should get rid of them or not? The upcoming holidays can prove to be a great time to reuse such bags. Try to offer these accumulated bags to your guests to carry their doggy bags. You can even use these plastic bags to cushion gifts inside a box, which you wish to post by means of mail or some parcel service. Thus, you can make use of accumulated plastic holders without adding them to the heap of waste.
Thus, you can organize your home with minimum possible stuff and make right use of accumulated stuff rather than adding such stuff to the ever increasing list of waste. Practicing such usage of unwanted stuff through entire year will help you to decrease the amount of waste not only during the Use Less Stuff week but also throughout the year.