What is your best organizing tip?

[didispunk]

I am doing a huge clean out, clean up and throw away before bub gets here..

What is your best organizing tip, do you use drawers, shelves, etc

Kids toys.. Our house is covered in them and well they dont play with half of them and I dont buy them things..


Help!!
Thank you!

[~Kim~]

DD's toys are in two of those 5 plastic drawer thingies. Each type of toy has it's own drawer (potato heads, puzzles, barbies, kitchen stuff etc) and is labelled so she can put the stuff away.
DS has 2 wheelie bins and some hidden tubs which I rotate into the bins.
I'm also a huge fan of tubs with lids that roll under stuff and stack.

[Epacris]

A place for everything and everything in its place. AND, this is the clincher for us, volume for volume replacement – any new things get put away and the same volume of things must be donated to charity. It doesn’t work perfectly, I know we have more stuff now than we used to, but it does help enormously to keep it in check (the grandparents tend to go a bit crazy with “stuff” and drive me totally insane ).

All the best!

[Kazbah]

When I sort, I don't sort stuff to toss, but I sort which stuff I want to keep. The rest goes.

[AnyDream]

When I sort, I don't sort stuff to toss, but I sort which stuff I want to keep. The rest goes.

That's a gem.

[Roryrory]

Along the same lines as what the others have said, my best organising tip is to get rid of as much as possible. Less stuff = less mess.

With kids toys, I rotate them. For example, at the moment all the jigsaws are packed away with the blocks and Mr Potato Head. I'll bring that stuff out when the boys tire of the toy food set, Thomas train set and etch-a-sketch.