Save Time With an Organized Mudroom
Do you feel that you are constantly misplacing your keys, wallet, loose change, etc.? Do you enter your home from more than one door? Well, if that’s the case I can help you save time with an organized mudroom. A place to keep things a bit more organized and can give you the time back that you lost trying to find those items.
First things first- decide which door works best to enter. Will it be the front door, garage door, side, or back door? You can determine this by where you have the most room to set up your system. One that your entire family can follow through with.
My family and I enter from the garage into our mudroom (yes, I feel very fortunate to have a mudroom). This is the area we keep everything we will need every morning-Kids included. Shoes, keys, coats, etc. it’s all there!
This handy mudroom is our drop spot. Kids know to take off their shoes, hang up their jackets, and drop their backpacks off as soon as they come home from school.
Take a few minutes as a family and organize the space together and talk about the new system and how it will work for your family. It might take a couple of weeks before it is running smoothly, but don’t give up.
You can make your space organized with some items that you might already have or check out Walmart, or the dollar store – you don’t have to break the bank to organize your home. You can add and take away see what is working and what your family needs to function best.
Happy Organizing!
This post was written by Basic Organization team member Stacey Bromberg.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a choice of doors to enter by, but that tip makes a lot of sense! It would be very frustrating – not to mention time-wasting – to have to look in two places for things!
Yes! Simplicity is the key. Having one entrance and creating the habit of leaving everything there makes your next exit so much easier.
I like that you mentioned talking over this strategy with your family, as well as giving them some time to get used to the routine of using the mudroom. It sure helps when everyone knows the why and how!
Thanks Olive. It takes about 30 days to create a habit, so if the whole family practices using the mudroom for a month it should become routine.
These are great tips! I agree that having a place to sit down to take off and put on shoes is very important. Having one door as the main entryway and setting up storage near that entryway can lead to a much more organized space.
Thanks Nancy. A launch/landing spot near your entrance is so important. I don’t have space in my home for a a place to sit to put shoes on, but I do have wall space where I have lots of hooks for coats, bags, umbrellas, hats, scarves, etc. It helps keep this stuff out of the next space we enter, the kitchen!