How To Organize Small Items in the Home

While we are home, we may notice areas of the house that need a little organizing. But, managing the work schedule, keeping the kiddos focused, and making sure everyone eats well needed to organize areas of the home may be overwhelming.

If you are desperate to have areas of your home organized, start small --small items. But it can be done. You can create a plan and execute it a little at a time over days.

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So, to begin, we must pinpoint the areas of the home that have “small things” in them. The kitchen, the bedroom, the home office, the garage (Affiliate Link), and the kids' rooms are just some of the areas with small things in them. I am going to share with you posts from the past about these particular areas. Let's begin.

Jump to:

• Organize Small Items in the Kitchen
• How to Organize a Freezer Like A Pro
• How to Organize Frequently Used Kitchen Drawers
• The Best Way to Make Drawers More Functional
• 14 Essential Items to Keep in Your Junk Drawer
• How to Make a Spice Drawer Organizer in a Small Space
• How to Install a Pull Out Spice Rack Organizer
• How to Create an Inventory Checklist for Organizing Spices and Herbs
• The Ultimate Guide To Organizing Herbs and Spices
• Bedroom and Clothes Closet
• Organizing a Teen's Nightstand
• The Best Ways To Do Nightstand Organizing
• The Best Way to Organize Clothing During the Fall Months
• Should You Fold or Hang Clothing
• The Ultimate Closet Organization Tips for Senior Citizens
• What to Keep in Your Organized Closet
• How To Store Clothing In Really Small Spaces
• Home Office Small Things Organized
• 7 Ways to Manage Papers Clutter-Free
• The best way to organize school papers at home
• 14 Easy Tips for Organizing Long Term Files in your home and business
• Effective Ways to Organize Incoming Paper Mail
• Easy Ways to Organize Manuals and Warranties
• Garage and Shed Small Things Organizing Tips
• How to Increase Space using Shed Organization Tools
• What to Keep in Your Shed
• 4 Areas of Your Garage to Keep Safe and Organized
• DIY Small Garage Organization Project
• How To Make An Effective Garage Organization
• Easy Tips to Organize an Outside Cabinet Storage on a budget
• How To Organize Felt Pads And Hooks Like A Pro
• 24 Useful Items For Your Family's Organized Car
• Car Organization Challenge
• 7 Essential Products for Organizing Tools
• Creative Ways to Organize Tools in a Closet
• Kid's Rooms and Playroom areas
• How to Make a Fun Kids Craft Room
• Affordable Board Game Organization
• Amazing Games to Help Kids Understand How to Organize
• How to Make a Fabulous Kids Playroom
• Super Easy Playroom Organizing Tips
• 8 Areas To Make An Amazing Child Playroom
• Organizing Small Sports Equipment For Kids
• 7 Creative Ways of Organizing Your Kid's Closet
• How I Organized My Kids Closets
• Incredible Tips on Labeling Kids' School Supplies
• Six Steps to Organize Kids Closets Fast
• Organizing A Boys Room In Just Two Hours
• 9 Ways to Use Mollie Ollie Mimmo Caddy to Organize Your Life
• Baby Room Organizing Ideas
• Where to Donate Baby Items
• Easy Tips When Organizing A Nursery

Organize Small Items in the Kitchen

The first posts give you tips on how to organize your freezer. Things can easily get lost there. Here's one tip: "BE CREATIVE WITH YOUR PLACEMENT OF ARTICLES."

Cooking Utensils

The following post is about organizing the drawers precisely how you want to by using customized dividers. A tip from this post involves using the top drawer for the most used utensils (Affiliate Link), and as you go down the set of drawers, the contents of the bottom drawer are used less frequently.

I did a couple of these posts over the 10 years of blogging. Here is the other post about frequently used utensils (Affiliate Link).

Junk (catch-all) Drawer

The next area to organize the small things is in the junk drawer. But what to place in there? The post below will help you determine the items to put in this drawer. A few small items to place in this drawer are batteries and a flashlight.

Spices and Herbs

The next area to organize is the spices (Affiliate Link) and herbs. If you cook a lot, you may have many small bottles that knock over in your cabinet or drawer. Read these posts to help you organize these smaller containers. I did several posts about spices (Affiliate Link) and herbs organization.

Now that your small kitchen things are organized. We are going to move on to the bedroom and closet space. This may take some time, so pace yourself. If it feels overwhelming, stop, take a deep breath, and start up again. Remind yourself that you can do this!

Bedroom and Clothes Closet

The bedroom should be your oasis, not your dumping ground. The closet and the bedroom need to be where you enjoy waking up in the morning. Piles of stuff lying around will make getting up much more difficult. Below are some small areas you can declutter to make your room more relaxing.

Nightstand Organization

Closet organization

The post below discusses grouping items and whether they should be hung or folded. Visit this post for details on the small things to organize in a closet.

Remember, use the same way to fold the clothes in your drawers and on shelves (Affiliate Link) in the closet. Hang your clothes in the same direction. If you button the shirts, hang them, and face them to the right, ensure all your shirts are hung and faced to the right.

Now let's move on to the home office. We use this space a lot more these days while working from home, so it needs to be organized.

Home Office Small Things Organized

Paper management is essential in any home office. And, for this post, the paper is about the small things! These posts below discusses creating a long-term file system for your home if you have a small business as well as short term paper filing.

Now, let's move on to the incoming paper mail we all have some form of. Do we need to keep all the junk mail that comes in? No, I think not! So, here is a way to organize this drop zone area to manage better the papers coming in.

Another area to look to organize is your manuals and warrantees, here is a post that talks about how to organize these items.

If you need to organize your Home Office supplies, Sabrina's Admin Services blog talks about an affordable way of doing this: How to Organize Office Supplies with Minimum Expense

Now that all your home office small items are organized, let's discuss the garage (Affiliate Link)! This area is the first place you see when you pull your car into the garage (Affiliate Link) and can make coming home frustrating if disorganized and cluttered. So, let's minimize the small items in this area next.

Garage and Shed Small Things Organizing Tips

The next area to organize is your gardening supplies and garage (Affiliate Link) things. Below, I talk alot about these topics. I am a big fan of gardening so these areas can get cluttered very easily if not managed. But you can easily use these tips for your garage (Affiliate Link) and shed (Affiliate Link) gardening supplies area. Click through and read more.

You probably have small items to help keep your furniture (Affiliate Link) from damaging your carpets and rugs (Affiliate Link). Let me guess, are they shoved in a drawer or bin somewhere? Ours were until we organized them in a divided container. Check out this post below to see all the items organized and displayed.

Now, onto the cars! We also have small things in the car, and they need your attention. Check out this post for details on the valuable things that you need in your vehicle.

Tools

Now, let's move on to the small tools (Affiliate Link) that are most likely in your garage (Affiliate Link). We chose not to place them in the garage (Affiliate Link) because we were concerned with rust in our cold garage (Affiliate Link); we decided to put them in a basement closet. However, you can easily apply these tips to your garage (Affiliate Link).

Now, the next area to organize is your kids' space. We all know they have a lot of small stuff to manage. Hopefully, most items will be designated for their bedrooms and the play/craft areas. Below are posts about organizing the kids' rooms and small playroom items.

Kid's Rooms and Playroom areas

Let's first start with the kids' craft room area. If your kids are like mine, crafts are the main part of their day. The below post talks about tips for small craft room things.

And, if your child loves to play make-believe games or have a playroom, you may want to visit these posts. The ones below will help you organize the play area for your kiddo. There are lots of them I posted over the years in a variety of areas of a playroom.

Now, onto those kids who love some sports. This area has a bunch of small items. Visit this post below to read how to organize those sports equipment. These items do not need to be placed in a playroom; they can be placed in the garage (Affiliate Link) too.

Now, on to the children's bedrooms.

Organizing Small Things in The Kids' Closets

Small things are everywhere in a kid's closet. Below are examples of ways to organize a kids' closet.

And, the bedroom of boys. Their area can usually be done in a few hours like the before and after the post I am sharing here.

Start your baby's room with well-organized small things. Your baby may not appreciate it now, but you sure will. Below are some of these small items organizing tips for their room as well.

Well, there you have it! There are other small items to organize in a home, so I plan on sharing them in a future post. What small items area do you plan on tackling shortly? Please leave a comment below. I would love to hear from you.