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Welcome back to 30 Days To An Organized Home (also known as the 30-Day Organize-athon)!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to express-organize your bed linen, towels, and table linen.
Think: clarity, freedom, and order. Let’s start.
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Done, placed some in the rag bin and donated some towels and sheets to an animal shelter
5 Boxes or Bins marked: keep, laundry, repair, repurpose & trash
Sort items & place in appropriate bins. Finished sorting return keep items to their proper location.
If you have a linen closet with shelves; place shelf liner/paper before returning items to shelves including cleaning products.
Out of date: keep
Stained: laundry & if stain is removed keep otherwise toss
Torn: repaired
Tatty: trash or cut into square to be used for quilts would be cotton fabric or rags would be terrycloth
Bed linen, table linen & towels that are surplus to your general needs (allow for guests & keep a couple of old towels for spills & leaks).
We suggest you keep the surplus to replace the tatty or worn out linen.
Do not purchase clothes that need dry cleaned if you cannot afford it.
My linen closet was done when I did the last program ” 21 days to simplify” so I did the bathroom closet instead. I had hair products in three different areas of my bathroom and consolidated all the toiletries and hair things into a shelving thing and consolidated all my cleaning supplies from all over the house and put them in that closet. I have alot of duplicates when it comes to cleaning supplies – I will try and use them up or if If it’s not getting used toss it. I can see it’s getting easier to put things away because I’m making a home for everything and putting everything in it’s place. No guessing games. ( lightbulb moment )
Our group suggests the following:
One large bag or bags and toss out the following:
Stained or tatty = trash: Old sheets & pillowcases; tablecloths; cloth napkins; and blankets.
Cut up for cleaning rags: old towels.
Old Quilts cut up for patchwork for new quilt.
Keep a couple of old towels for spills and leaks.
Take out all of the products & items from your bathroom cabinets & place them in a single pile.
Discard any old or expired items, including medicines, toiletries & makeup.
Assess the remaining products, & decide if there are some things which you can do away with.
Segregate & group together the remaining items into categories as follows: Facial skin care products; Body care products; Bath products; Hair care products; Makeup; Medicines; Oral care products; Nail care items; Shaving products; Perfumes.
Get some storage containers that will fit your cabinet space.
Label the containers of the segregated products to make things easier to find.
Put the containers in the cabinets. Place containers of products that you use often in the front, and lesser used products at the back.