Simple Tips And Ideas On How To Get Organized At Home

Getting organized at home doesn’t mean being perfect or having a Pinterest-worthy house. It means knowing where things live, having simple routines, and feeling calmer in your own space.

If you’re wondering how to get organized at home without feeling overwhelmed, these are the realistic habits and routines I use to keep my home running smoothly, even when life feels a bit chaotic. So, these ways to get organized at home are here to help you find your own way to do things around your home.

Sometimes life is overwhelming for me, but to have things organized and in the right place makes me feel better and am able to manage things easier, including my anxiety.

Getting organized isn’t about perfection, it’s about simple systems that make everyday life easier.

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How Can I Get More Organized

Organization isn’t one-size-fits-all, and routines need adjusting as life changes.

I do still sometimes sit back and think about how I can improve on what I’m currently doing.

It’s easy to get into a rut and not realize it our Planner’s Guide To Decluttering can help you track your progress and help you staying motivated.

You might do the same thing everyday and it might not be working out the way you want. When this happens it’s a good idea to look at everything that you’ve got going on and see if there are areas you can change. Have you written out your daily plan in a planner or a to-do list?

Remember that a routine or a system isn’t going to last forever, you change and so to do your circumstances. It’s important to assess how things are working and what isn’t working.

This gives you the tools you need to make any changes to your daily life to make it work better for you and your family.

Get Yourself Organized At Home

You can’t organize your home if you feel overwhelmed and scattered.

Before you can take on the world, well your home at least, you have to feel in control of yourself first. You can’t organize anything if you feel overwhelmed and unsure as to what you should be doing.

Start by identifying:

1. Non-negotiable appointments
2. Must-do daily tasks
3. One or two extra tasks if you have time and energy

These must be marked on a to-do list or in your planner, you just need a place to record the non-negotiable tasks that must happen, only then are you ready to look at other things in your home.

You need to work out what you need to do each day for your day to go smoothly and for things to get done.

Tips On How To Get Organized At home

Good organization is built on habits, not big clean-ups, see my article for 5 Tips to Help You Stay Organized for practical ways to start.

When it comes to organizing you need to form habits that will help you do things automatically, but habits take time to build.

Build habits:

1. One habit at a time
2. Start small and build slowly
3. Add habits into the routines you already have
4. Let consistency do the work

You need to check out the book Atomic Habits if you want to learn more about habit building.

Creating A Morning Routine

A simple morning routine helps your day start on autopilot.

I don’t want you to think that a morning routine is something for other people, you will be surprised how much more you can get from your morning if you are doing things without thinking.

Sometimes if you’ve had a rough night, doing your morning routine automatically is amazing, it gives you more time to wake up but not missing the important stuff that you need to do.

Your morning routine will combine things that you need to do for you as well as some things for your home and family. Check out my morning routine tips for more ideas to structure your day.

You have to think about what needs to happen in the morning, my morning routine looks like this at the moment, remember this might change if my circumstances change.

Here’s what my current morning routine looks like:

1. Get up and make the bed
2. Go downstairs and drink tea with husband until he goes to work
3. Exercise
4. Shower and get dressed
5. Breakfast, at this point I’m starting to wake up, I’m really not good in the morning
6. Quick tidy up of the kitchen
7. Sort dogs out and go through to my office and start my work day

The goal isn’t to copy this exactly, it’s to build a routine that fits your life.

You can see that in this list I’ve already tidied at least 2 rooms before I’ve even started my day. The idea of building routines and habits into your day is to get things done without realizing you have done them. So, you don’t have to think about that item, it’s just something you do.

Create A Hot Spot Tidy

Hot spots are areas where clutter collects naturally.

If you are looking for ways on how to get more organized at home, you might want to try this simple activity to really help all family members taking responsibility for their own things.

This is an activity that you can get your whole family involved in, everyone tackles the areas that items get dumped in.

Common hot spots include:

1. Entryways
2. Kitchen counters
3. Coffee tables, check out this coffee table it becomes a desk too!
4. The spot where post gets dumped

So, when the kids come in from school and the first thing, they do is dump everything on the floor and it stays where it lands, or was this just my kids?

You call them back and you tackle this hot spot together, getting things to where they belong and tackling the chaos.

You do this for different areas of your home at different times of the day:

• like your kitchen after a meal
• that pile of post you just put down
• the remains of the snack that got left on the coffee table

Anywhere that collects items that don’t belong there and whom ever was responsible for leaving it there.

But always remember to help in the beginning!

Simple Organizing Tasks To Get You Started

Small daily actions are more effective than occasional big declutters.

With organizing I think it’s important to take things slowly. If you organize too quickly you don’t give yourself time to get used to a new system or idea.

So, starting small and tackle those small projects on a daily basis for no more than 5 or 10 minutes is a great way to get into the habit of organizing.

Some ideas that you can try are:

1. Getting rid of a few items each day, put them in a donate bag
2. Tackle one drawer in your kitchen each day
3. If you buy something new, something old has to go.
4. When you leave a room, take something that doesn’t belong there and put it away.

What you don’t want to do is to get stressed and worry about things, take your time it didn’t take a day for your home to become unorganized, it’s not going to take a day to sort it out either.

Multitasking Is Your Enemy Not Your Friend

Doing too many things at once usually means nothing gets finished. In fact, research from the American Psychological Association shows that multitasking can reduce productivity by up to 40%, because switching between tasks takes a mental toll.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that if you multitask that you will get more done. In fact, you are probably going to get a lot less done than you thought.

You will end up with more things half done and it will make your home look worse and not better.

Start one thing and finish it before you start the next task.

If you have multiple tasks that you need to do, then you need to create a list and cross of the items one at a time as you complete them, use a to-do list.

Don’t think you can multitask it will end in disaster.

One Bite At A Time

There’s no quick fix when it comes to organizing.

If you are hoping for a miracle then you are out of luck! The only way to get organized is one bite at a time.

There is no miracle product or thing that you can do that will make the process go quicker or easier, you need to go through your things one step at a time and to do that will be time consuming.

You need to find the area that you need the most to be clear from clutter and you just need to start organizing.

I know there will be things that you can’t put away because they need to go in another room, and you haven’t started that room just yet. But I always recommend moving them out of the current room because they are going to get in the way.

You can tackle them properly when you get to that space, you might want to move to that space next or just have that as a task to do soon.

You don’t want to get into the habit of putting off an organizing project as it can then turn into something that becomes bigger than what it really is.

It’s All About You

Lasting organization starts with personal responsibility, not pressure from others.

It’s all about you! This is quite a statement, but in the long-run it is all about you.

You can’t make other people in your home do something; they have to have a desire to do it.

Your home won’t get organized and look comfortable and homely if you don’t spend the time maintaining it in the way that you want.

No one is going to organize your life for you, unless you are super rich and can afford a personal assistant to help you with every aspect of your life.

Unfortunately, you have to take the action and put in the work to clean and organize your home and life.

You might hate how your home looks now but working at it every single day will make things happen and you will be able to see the results from being organized in your daily life and in your home.

How To Start Getting Organized At Home (Without Feeling Overwhelmed)

Let’s think about what we have learned:

1. Start by organizing yourself before tackling your home
2. Focus on small, manageable tasks instead of big clean-ups
3. Build simple routines that fit your lifestyle
4. Avoid multitasking and finish one task before starting another
5. Remember that progress comes from consistent daily action, not perfection

Getting organized doesn’t happen overnight, but small daily changes make a big difference. Want more simple, practical tips? Check out more of our articles on staying organized at home.

1. 5 Tips To Help You stay Organized
2. The Planner’s Guide To Decluttering
3. How To Stay Organized During The Holidays