The Best Summertime Areas to Organize when It Is Hot Outside

You may wonder if it is a good time to declutter and organize in the summer. I'm here to tell you yes! It's a perfect time to clear out and lighten up your home. And, with kids, it's a great time to clear out your kids' school things, too. Today, I will share summertime areas to organize in your home to stay organized when it is too hot outside to do anything else. These practical tips will help you enjoy sunny days and outdoor areas without wasting too much time.

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Benefits of organizing your home in the summer.
Expert Advice: Supplies Needed to Declutter in the Summer
Clean out Your Kitchen cabinets.
The Best Way to Make Drawers More Functional
How to Make a Spice Drawer Organizer in a Small Space
How To Create A Fabulous Custom Silverware Drawer Organizer
How to Transform A Refrigerator Drawer Like A Pro
14 Essential Items to Keep in Your Junk Drawer
10 Kitchen Organizing Essentials You Need
Declutter Bathroom drawers
Beautify Powder Room Sink Cabinet Idea
Vanity Organization Revisited
Easy DIY Tips to Customize Vanity Drawer
Go through winter clothing.
How to Easily Organize Family Coats in a Coat Closet
DIY Affordable Weekday Clothing Organizer
How to Make a Masculine Days of the Week Clothing Organizer
How to Make Chalk Paint Days of the Week Clothing Organizer
How to Make Repurposed DIY Day of the Week Closet Dividers
Gather all your beach supplies.
Review and reorganize your tool area.
7 Essential Products for Organizing Tools
Creative Ways to Organize Tools in a Closet
Easy Tool Closet Organization To Create More Storage Space
Go through the files and papers.
Gift Myths That Keep You Stuck in Clutter
Organizing Memorabilia Challenge
Amazing Family Memorabilia Ideas to Honor Loved Ones
Easy Ways to Transform Bad Memories into Good Ones
15 Keepsake Items to Toss for a Stress-Free Home
What to Keep in Your Bill-Paying Station
How to Organize Digital Receipts in Your Home
Other areas you can visit during the summer
Meal planning system
How to Make a Meal Planning System that Works
Delicious Weeknight Dinner Soup Recipes
50 Delicious Weeknight Spring Dinner Ideas for family

Benefits of organizing your home in the summer.

You may wonder why I need to organize my home in the summer. It should be more fun, and I want to relax. I understand; it is not a great time. But in actuality, it is the perfect time to organize and declutter. Below are the benefits of decluttering and organizing during this time of year.

Longer days—Since there are longer days, you can organize and declutter and still have time for other fun things in the evening.
Establishing new routines—Since the summer is slower and you have fewer obligations, you can easily create new daily routines to instill in your children before school begins.
Decluttering the areas you use during your kids' school year will help you find things more easily, resulting in less time looking for them during the year.
You can get rid of stuff quickly—decluttering your home in the summer can help you hold your yard sale immediately instead of waiting until fall.

There are so many more benefits. Let's get down to the summertime areas to organize and declutter to help you create a plan before the summer begins.

Expert Advice: Supplies Needed to Declutter in the Summer

Let me first share with you the things you will need to be able to declutter quickly and get the stuff out, so you do not have to spend too much time and feel overwhelmed.

Trash Bags (Affiliate Link) -Yard bags work best for clothes since they are thicker and larger and can be tied easily.
Recycle Bins - sturdy so they can hold heavier items
Storage Bins - various sizes
Permanent Marker (Affiliate Link) and sticky notes (Affiliate Link) - for labeling where things are for donating or recycling
Label maker (Affiliate Link) and labels (Affiliate Link) - for long-term storage bins, if needed

Family members can also help you declutter these areas of your home. Be sure to get them involved. Offer a reward for clearing out areas of the home, like going to the pool after they clear out their desk in their bedroom.

Clean out Your Kitchen cabinets.

Pick the areas you don't often visit first, then move to the places you visit often. This will give you the momentum to clear the areas quickly. When reviewing these areas, ask yourself, "When was the last time I used this item?" The other day, I did this and found several things I could toss. It was so freeing. The worst thing is to cook and not fit everything in the drawers.

Visit these posts to help you reorganize your kitchen drawers.

The Best Way to Make Drawers More Functional

The kitchen is the heart of our home. I love to make it the heart of my clients' home as well. Though if your kitchen drawers aren't organized, it can be a struggle finding things. As a result, it will make your time cooking and preparing meals longer than it needs to be. Here is

How to Make a Spice Drawer Organizer in a Small Space

Organizing a small kitchen can be difficult. Finding the right places for the right items becomes a crafty challenge. We had this situation in our kitchen where the drawers on the side of the range (when fully open) are hard to get to. Basically, when you open the drawer, your backside will hit the fridge

How To Create A Fabulous Custom Silverware Drawer Organizer

Many silverware drawer organizers just don't fit in the drawers properly. And, if you have a large drawer, it is even more challenging. Doing some research, I found that getting a custom drawer organizer can be quite pricey, and frankly, I had the tools to make one myself. So, that is what my husband and

How to Transform A Refrigerator Drawer Like A Pro

A recent refrigerator purchase gave me a new dilemma - what to do with the wide deli drawer? If you look at refrigerators now, some have a super-wide "deli" drawer that usually has one or two dividers in it and not a lot of flexibility. Adding items to this drawer can be quite annoying -

14 Essential Items to Keep in Your Junk Drawer

We all have that kitchen junk drawer; you know, the one. The one that holds all the little items that are not large enough to have their designated space. These little things can be challenging to store and usually get stored in several places in the home. This place can easily be a dumping ground for

10 Kitchen Organizing Essentials You Need

The kitchen is the heart of the home, and it can be very messy if not well organized with some planning and some necessary organizers. This post will cover different kitchen organizing essentials and what is needed to keep those areas organized. This area has a lot of things to organize. To help you know

Declutter Bathroom drawers

Another area to revisit in the summertime is the bathroom's drawers and under-the-sink area. These areas can easily get very cluttered during the busy season. I like going through the first aid kit and seeing what I am missing, as well as the vanity drawers and under-the-sink area.

Beautify Powder Room Sink Cabinet Idea

Did you ever feel embarrassed about what your family and friends see under your vanity in your powder room? Well, this post is for you!

Vanity Organization Revisited

If you haven't read my blog for a while, you may not know that I share a vanity with my daughter in our shared bathroom. It's a great place to sit and take care of morning activities, and it saves space having only one vanity in the bathroom, but with a shared space comes a compromise.

Easy DIY Tips to Customize Vanity Drawer

Recently, people were asking me about my do-it-yourself vanity. You see, I share this vanity with my teenage daughter. She has her side, and I have mine. Guess which side is mine? I think my side of the drawer tends to be more organized than hers.

Go through winter clothing.

Go through your winter clothes in your closet and remove torn winter clothes and summer clothes that don't fit.

I have done this every summer since my kids were little. Since it is the end of the school year, it frees me to eliminate things they didn't use this year. Get the kids involved and have them try on the winter items. Make a list of stuff that you need to replace and keep it for the fall. You can take advantage of the discounts if you purchase these items early in the season. Cha-ching. =)

You can even go through your coats and reorganize the hallway closet. Here are some additional posts to help you with this.

How to Easily Organize Family Coats in a Coat Closet

We all have a closet that holds all the coats for the entire family. When you are looking for a particular jacket, shuffling through tons of coats that are not yours. Getting frustrated, you pull the next coat, and as you place it on, you realize it wasn’t yours. Today, I am showing you a

Try something new to make your mornings less crazy.

Summer is excellent for establishing new morning routines. With a flexible schedule, you can work on the kinks before school begins again. It is also a great time to create day-of-the-week tags so you and your kids can add them to already-set-up outfits for a more relaxing morning during school.

DIY Affordable Weekday Clothing Organizer

With my kids and my busy schedule, we have gotten into the habit of doing laundry weekly. Here are a few posts about my laundry room process. Laundry Room Closet Organization Laundry Chore Organized and Finished! To help my kids and me prepare faster in the morning,

How to Make a Masculine Days of the Week Clothing Organizer

Women are not the only ones who like to organize their clothing during the days of the week. Men also prefer not to think about what to wear during the week. Many famous people rather wear the same thing each day than organize clothing.

How to Make Chalk Paint Days of the Week Clothing Organizer

If you don't know by now, I love to use closet organizer days of the week to organize the week's clothing. I'm about to show you another set I made for my child's closet.

How to Make Repurposed DIY Day of the Week Closet Dividers

Whether you call them day-of-the-week closet dividers, closet dividers, Monday through Friday clothing organizers, or anything else, these little day-of-the-week closet dividers are so useful to help you manage your daily clothing. I am going to show you how I made these in just an hour of your time.

Gather all your beach supplies.

Visit your beach towels, remove the oldest four towels, and give the rest to an animal hospital. Organize your pool supplies and outdoor toys. Check various areas of your home for these items. They could be in your outdoor shed (Affiliate Link), laundry room (Affiliate Link), closet, drop zones, attic, bathroom, and garage (Affiliate Link).

Review and reorganize your tool area.

Visit the paint cans and remove any unused paint in your home. Buy a paint drier mix to quickly harden the remaining paint so you can trash the entire can. Never trash wet paint, it isn't good for the environment. For more advice on organizing your tool area, visit the links below. If you store these items in the garage (Affiliate Link), make this a project for after 7:00 pm so you won't be overheating in the space.

7 Essential Products for Organizing Tools

How do your tools look right now? Are they organized in a way that makes the best use of your time when you need them? Or do you spend a lot of time looking for a particular thing and never get around to doing the initial task?

Creative Ways to Organize Tools in a Closet

Update: It has been five years since we organized this closet and there were some updates in the last year that I wanted to share with you. While a lot of the shelving, bags, and stuff are available to use, we have updated several things that made the tool closet much more user-friendly.

Easy Tool Closet Organization To Create More Storage Space

Over the years, our tool closet has transformed and expanded its usability to hold EVERYTHING we need to improve our home, complete home craft projects, and repair stuff. Today, I will share with you the next evolution of our tool closet organization.

Go through the files and papers.

If you have projects that need to be done but don't have the time right now, make folders for each home project and place all the scraps of inspiration, magazine articles, etc., inside so when you are ready to do the project, you have everything together. I like to use plastic top-opening folders, like these Amazon (Affiliate Link) Picks below, to keep all the papers together for projects.

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Go through your memorabilia.

Many keepsake items, especially kids' school papers and artwork, can be weeded out this time of year. Make it a game and have your children do this with you so they can enjoy revisiting their favorite keepsakes. If they see an item they can not recognize, it may be an opportunity to eliminate or donate it. Below are some posts about keepsakes and helping children let go of things.

Gift Myths That Keep You Stuck in Clutter

Now that the holidays are over and we are starting to get back to normal, it's time to figure out where those gifts you were given should go in your home. Gifts have different purposes. Some may be able to help you. Others may be to provide you with support.

Organizing Memorabilia Challenge

How much memorabilia (keepsakes) do you have in your home? Are they stored in boxes in your closet or displayed in cabinets? I challenge you to get these items reduced by at least half. Do you think that is impossible? Follow along and take these first steps in organizing memorabilia. Whether the memorabilia is

Amazing Family Memorabilia Ideas to Honor Loved Ones

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Easy Ways to Transform Bad Memories into Good Ones

The great thing about organizing with clients is that I learned many things about human behavior. One particular action I come across often is the customer's bad memories. Many of these experiences come to the surface because of an object they encounter while purging clutter.

15 Keepsake Items to Toss for a Stress-Free Home

One of the most challenging items to get rid of in a home is memorabilia. It is one of the last areas we all declutter in our home and one of the first that gets accumulated. It is hard to get rid of these items. Don't believe me?

Bill Paying System

Going through your bill-paying system is another summertime area to organize. It could be a great time to review your paper receipts, decide on a new process to go digital, and maybe set up a new bill pay system to streamline the process. Below are some bill-paying posts to help you make a fresh start.

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Other areas you can visit during the summer

Below are some other areas you can revisit this summer while you are enjoying the summer season.

Meal planning system

Decide on your go-to dinner recipes and create customized Grocery Lists. My posts below will help you create your own meal-planning system.

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Delicious Weeknight Dinner Soup Recipes

A great collection of weeknight soup recipes is handy during a busy week. Today, I will group my soup recipes by the pressure cooker, slow cooker, and stovetop options for your family. Pick the section that works for your family and situation. Happy cooking! What are some options for soup recipes for dinner?

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Whatever you decide to do this summer, pick any or all of these summertime areas to organize your home for a stress-free new school year. After all, it's the only time of the year we get a break from all the hustle and bustle. I hope your day is cool and breezy.