Tips on Decluttering Your Home – The Humble Basket is a Great Storage Solution


Here are a few more useful tips on decluttering your home to reduce stress. Today’s article focuses on the use of storage baskets to create low cost storage options around your home.

Laundry Storage Baskets

The laundry in your house can get messy, with dirty clothes strewn around the laundry area, and clothes that have been washed, and ready for ironing or to be placed back in your closets.

Create at least two baskets, one for dirty laundry, and one for fresh clothes. If you live in a larger house with a big family, you may need to increase the number of baskets that you use, and assign baskets to individual family members. That way, family members can be responsible for taking their dirty clothes to the laundry, and for placing new clothes back into their closet.

Magazine Baskets

In your living room, use baskets to place all your favorite magazines in. It helps to keep your living room well organized, with no mess scattered on the sofas, on coffee tables or on the floor. You could also be creative and decorate your magazine baskets to complement the décor of your room.

Enticing Fruit Baskets and Lovely Food Baskets

Have you noticed how enticing fruits look when placed in nice woven baskets? The baskets seem to make the fresh fruits much more enticing to try, and also adds color to your kitchen or dining area.

Using baskets is also a great way to monitor whether you need to buy more fruits for the week, and to make sure the kids are eating plenty of fruits throughout the week, and taking enough fruits for their school lunches.

You could also use baskets to hold other food items such as snacks for the kids, ie. muesli bars, and other food items that they can easily grab to take with them for sports events and the like as they are heading out the door.

Choose the “In Basket” Option

If you work from your own home office, try using a basket in the study as your “in tray”. Its much more appealing than using those traditional “in trays” that you find in the office cubicles of most companies.  Choose a reasonable sized basket to meet your needs. Though keep in mind, that your “in-basket” needs to be regularly sorted, and any paperwork filed away. Taking regular action to clear your “in basket” will pay dividends when it comes to improving your work productivity.

Stay tuned for more household organizing tips about organizing your home and being productive so that you can get things done quickly.

Hope you have enjoyed these tips on decluttering your home by using versatile baskets for storage around your home.