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Tips and Tools To Organize The Family Room
Hello, and welcome to the fourth day of the decluttering and organizing challenge!
How are you doing on the challenge so far? Do you love coming home and welcoming guests in your newly organized and refreshed entryway and formal living room? Great! Let’s keep going with the challenge.
Today’s challenge will focus on the family room. I know what you are thinking, yikes. If you feel this is one of your home’s messiest and most cluttered areas, you are not alone.
Unlike the formal living room, the family room is a space we live in. There is a lot of clutter and messes that can gather here.
Our declutter and organize checklist will help you eliminate unnecessary things in this space so any messes that happen moving forward will be a breeze to control.
Feel free to alter the tasks on this checklist to fit the age of your children and the kind of “stuff” they have in this space.
How To Organize The Family Room
Let’s get started with the checklist for decluttering and organizing the family room!
- Set up four totes or boxes and label them “Toss”, “Donate”, “Keep” and “Relocate”. Place items that will stay in the family room in the “keep”, items that need to be put away in other rooms go into “relocate”, the “Toss” bin is for items you no longer need, and Items you want to donate will go into the “Donate”.
- Once your bins/boxes are set up, begin in one area or your room and work through it, emptying and sorting. Remember to be very strict with what you want to keep as you do this. Do you still need those toys your kids have outgrown and hardly ever play with? Do you even have a VCR anymore to warrant all of those movies in an outdated format? Is that board game still functional with so many pieces missing? You get the idea.
- Once you have each area cleared and sorted, go through the family room and wipe and dust all the surfaces.
- Vacuum and/or sweep the floor
- Now, you are ready to return the things you will keep in the family room where they belong. Empty your “toss” tote and move your “donate” tote to your car trunk- better yet, go ahead and drop it off at the donation center today (we’ve all had that box or bag in the trunk for way too long, right?) Rehome the items in the “relocate” bin.
Family Room Organizing Checklist
Grab today’s Family Room Declutter Checklist and let’s get started!
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