5 Ways to Simplify Your Home Today

Simplify your home today with these five quick ideas.

When you simplify your home, you are able to breathe and actually enjoy your everyday life. Instead of living in a cycle of frustration and stress, we can take steps to cultivate. simplicity.

Sometimes it is hard to know even where to start in your home. You may feel completely overwhelmed which then leads to frustration and defeat. However, I have learned there are a few things you can do today to help simplify your home and alleviate the stress.

5 Ways to Simplify Your Home Today

Put cleaning supplies where you use them.

Keep the cleaning supplies you use plus a rag or paper towels under the bathroom sink. Due the same for under the kitchen sink. Also, put some trash bags under there. When the items are already there, you are much more likely to do a quick wipe down of the surfaces.

Do a nightly pick up.

Starting the day with a cleaned up house helps me feel ready to go, but this means there has to be some clean up the night before. Often this can be hard because everyone is worn out by the end of the day. However, we have found that a quick family clean up helps us clean up in no time. The point is not to dust during this time but to just put what is out of place back in place.

Emily Ley suggest to grab a laundry basket and put anything that is out of place in it. Then dump it out and have everyone put things back.

Have landing zones.

Find homes for your items. You could have a hook for your keys, hooks for boo kbags, basket for socks, etc. When you create homes for your items, then train your family and use these landing zones!

Start a simple meal schedule.

If meal planning is wearing you down, decided to go for something like: Monday- Italian, Tuesday- Mexican, Wednesday- Crock Pot, etc. This will give you a framework to build off of.

Do a load of laundry a day. 

Laundry can be extremely overwhelming. One thing that I have found to be helpful is to do one load of laundry a day. Most days I end up doing more than that but focusing on the one is keep to beating laundry overwhelm.

While the list could on and on, these are 5 ways to simplify your home today. Ready?! Get started!