This year has left many of us stuck indoors for months on end. While you may have taken to learning a new skill or catching up on a new show or podcast, you might consider taking on a new task: organizing your apartment. This will not only lead to greater productivity but will also help you clear your mind as you rid yourself of clutter. Below are some actionable steps you can take to keep your apartment organized and to maximize the limited space you have.
Buy a Shower Caddy
Keeping your bathroom clean can be a real chore, but minimizing the clutter on your countertops and in your shower is a step in the right direction. A shower caddy can help you do just this. You know that you will need your soaps, shampoos, and other cleaning products every time you take a shower, but the bottles can really add up, especially if you have roommates.
A shower caddy can keep all your bottles and scrubbers off the floor or edge of the tub and will make cleaning so much faster. You will not have to worry about moving all the products out of the way and overrunning the bathroom floor while you clean. Additionally, if you have roommates, having a dedicated shower caddy for each person can show what belongs to who, and everyone can move their caddy in and out when they take a shower or bath.
Try a Peg Board
Peg boards are a godsend for anyone with a cluttered workspace or kitchen. Whether you’re an artist with twenty different kinds of pencils, have a kitchen with tons of chip clips, or work at home full time, a pegboard can help keep all your small items off the counters and in satisfying compartmentalized bins and shelves.
Many big retailers sell peg boards with plenty of options for containers, little cups, hangers, and anything else you might need. This is another great thing about pegboards; they are fully modular so you can build it around your needs and space. Additionally, if you have trouble finding a peg board at any local stores, you can use PVC tubes and other items from your local hardware store to build your own.
Manage Your Cables
We live in an ever increasingly technological world, which is wonderful until you realize that all these new devices come with their own chargers and cables to keep track of. Organizing your cables will not only help navigating your devices easier, but will also make transporting them an option.
There are many cheap options for ways to organize your cables; in some cases, you might not even have to spend any money. Next time you buy a loaf of bread or go to the grocery store, grab the twist ties keeping the bags closed and use them to wrap together wires. This will keep excess wire wrapped up and will keep wires to different devices separate.
Keep Similar Items Together
This one may seem like common sense, but it can really make a difference. For example, try to keep your baking ingredients in a special section in your pantry and your frying ingredients in another. Also be sure to separate your pens from your markers–and so on. This will help streamline all your belongings, making it easier to tell when you are running low on something.
Organization Can Be Easy!
Keeping your apartment clean and clutterless can feel daunting, but it does not have to be difficult. So whether you live in apartments in midwest city Oklahoma or in a cramped studio in New York, start organizing one section at a time and enjoy the benefits of having a clean and organized space.
