Cluttering your apartment with odds and ends is not just messy but can be hazardous to your children.
Follow these suggestions to streamline your apartment.
- Use empty jars, margarine containers and ice cream tubs to store your buttons, threads, nails, screws and other odds and ends laying around your apartment.
- Cut plastic milk bottles in half and use them for storage to keep puzzles, marbles and other small toys off your apartment floor.
- Keep your kids’ backpacks in an easy-to-find location to reduce last-minute rushes when leaving the apartment. Backpack Racks sell online for about $5.
- Donate clothes to charity if your kids have outgrown them or if you haven’t worn them in the last year.
- Reduce paper clutter in the kitchen by hanging a bulletin board (or adding fridge magnets) on an unused wall in your apartment.
- Donate or discard multiple kitchen items, or items you haven’t used in a year.
- Buy a cheap wine rack to store your bathroom towels. You’ll be surprised to discover that rolled-up bathroom towels fit surprisingly well in a wine rack, creating extra space in your cupboards!
- Hang a rack in your shower to store soap, shampoos and conditioners. Make sure razors are kept out of reach of children.
- Throw out expired medicines and old makeup.
- Keep watch in your neighbourhood for free furniture. Many people leave unwanted furniture at the curb, particularly the night before garbage collection.
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