Perla Reynolds
It is amazing how looking at a clean floor can help your ability to stay patient and zen-like. Now, while some of us live in large, luxurious houses with plenty of closet and storage space, others of us *cough, cough* live in smaller sized homes with little space to store all these toys. This means that aside from throwing them all into the Giant Toy Box Dumpster of Doom (where toys go to be buried and never again see the light of day) you’re left with the challenge of finding a useable place to put the books and the puzzles and the cars and the musical instruments and the dolls and the blocks and the Legos…
If you want to have a clean (looking) and well organized home, you have to find ways to motivate your household to keep it picked up!
Creating interactive and fun ways to motivate your KIDS to keep the house relatively organized. These toys are broken or in such bad shape that you would be ashamed for another kid to touch them.
Take the “discard” toys and put them in the trash (or recycle) immediately! These toys are in good condition, but your child has outgrown them or no longer plays with them (and no future siblings will either). If you’re donating them, take them straight to the garage or car to drop off on your next trip to town. If you’re going to sell them, snap some pictures to put up on Facebook Marketplace or eBay later in the week.
Snapping the pictures right away will make it most likely you’ll get them up to sell sooner. These toys are in good condition AND your children play with them on a regular basis (or you’re saving them for a younger sibling).
Make an old toy feel new by pulling in out next quarter, when your child forgot how much they loved it! It’s the room where you collapse on the couch to watch TV at the end of a long day.
I’ve found that my stress level goes up significantly when the living room is trashed. Here are some of my favorite ideas to keep my living room just a few minutes away from clean throughout the week. Imagine walking into child’s bedroom in the morning, without stepping on something and seeing everything neatly arranged! If you haven’t discovered the awesomeness and bathing your baby and toddler at the same time, let this article introduce you.
This means you need a system that will actually motivate your kids to put their toys away without you standing there telling him to.
