What are your cleaning and organizing challenges, and what solutions

☎ Rotary Dial ☎ need help to clarify doubt about: : What are your cleaning and organizing challenges, and what solutions have you found?
It’s hard to organize some things! Tell me the clever solutions you’ve found to the cleaning and organizing challenges in your life.

I want to hear about anything and everything, including: crafts, kitchen, shop, garage, kids, shoes, jewelry, seasonal decor, firewood, etc!

Try this:

Answer by eskie lover
I am somewhat of a packrat and collector. So, I use what I have as storage and look at almost everything I own as clutter collectors instead of just taking up space. For example, I look at how something can be repurposed to store stuff. So an ice bucket holds rolled up towels in my guest bath. An antique teapot holds bathsalts, the creamer holds q-tips and the sugar bowl cotton balls. I keep my wrapping paper in old wine boxes, paint brushes upright in crystal vases, remote controls in vintage cigar boxes, CDs in wicker baskets, I use bisquit, tea and cookie tins in drawers to organize and separate things and in the bathroom on shelves to keep manicure implements, files, etc. Japanese teacups are great holders for makeup brushes, eye and lip pencils, toothbrushes, etc. and make those items appear neat and organized. Seasonal decor I keep on overhead racks above the garage door that hubby built and I use the plastic bins to be able to see what is inside. Under every bathroom vanity I keep lazy susans with lotions, mouthwash, and the stuff I don’t want seen, but need easy access to. That way I just spin the wheel to see what I have and nothing ever gets pushed to the back. I also keep totes with all of the cleaning items I need for that bathroom. I keep a spray bottle filled with 50% vinegar and water in the shower so that the person taking a shower simply mists it down before leaving to keep ahead of mildew and soap scum. I keep denture tablets in the bathroom drawer and toss them in the toilet a couple times a week to keep it shiny and clean until I do a weekly cleaning. We don’t wear shoes in our home, so I keep a basket full of slippers near the entry door in the laundry room and new ones in a basket by the front door for guests. We organize our shoes on shoe trees, so the shoes go someplace tidy when we take them off. I try to keep my pantry organized labels out by item so that when I need to make a grocery list I can see immediately what I need. Pasta, rices and beans I store in glass containers that are really recycled candle jars. I keep three wicker baskets in the closet so that the laundry is always separated and there is a bag for the dry cleaning that is ready to be grabbed to go. We keep the firewood on the hearth in an antique brass firebox and another open brass container for the kindling which hubby stocks nightly before we go to bed. The firewood is kept on a rack outside covered with a tarp to keep it dry. Jewelry is a bit of a problem for me because I’m lazy and don’t always get it back into the safe or armoire. But, my dear friend just gave me a handy lalique crystal container especially made for lazy butt people like me so I keep it near the sink so I can take off my jewelry put it in there and not leave it all over the house like she sees me do often.

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