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How To Organize Small Items in the Home

Last Modified: January 24, 2022 Sabrina Quairoli This blog uses cookies. It also has affiliate links. We earn sponsored content income.

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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, with 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 that is. But it can be done. You can create a plan and execute it a little at a time over days.

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, and the kids' rooms are just some of the areas that have small things in them. I am going to share with you posts from the past about these particular areas. Let's begin.



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Small Items in the Kitchen to Organize

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

Organizing a Freezer Like A Pro
ORGANIZING A FREEZER LIKE A PRO

The next post is how to organize the drawers precisely the way you want to by using customized dividers. A tip from this post involves using the top drawer for the most used utensils, and as you go down the set of drawers, the contents of the bottom drawer is used less frequently.

The Best way to make drawers more functional | Sabrina's Organizing #kitchen
THE BEST WAY TO MAKE DRAWERS MORE FUNCTIONAL

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 place in this drawer. A few small items to place in this drawer are batteries and a flashlight.

14 Essential Items to Keep in Your Junk Drawer
14 ESSENTIAL ITEMS TO KEEP IN YOUR JUNK DRAWER

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 then 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 a place that you enjoy waking up to in the morning. Piles of stuff laying around will just make getting up, that much more difficult. Below are some areas of small things you can declutter to make your room more relaxing.

Bedroom nightstand organizing essentials
BEDROOM NIGHTSTAND ORGANIZING ESSENTIALS

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

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what to keep in your organized closet
WHAT TO KEEP IN YOUR ORGANIZED CLOSET TIPS AND TRICKS

Remember, use the same way to fold the clothes in your drawers and on shelves in the closet. Hang your clothes in the same direction. If you button the shirt and hang them and face them to the right, make sure all your shirts are hung and faced to the right.

Now let's move on to the home office. We are using 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 important in any home office. And, for this post, the paper is the small things! The below post talks about how to create a long-term file system for your home and if you have a small business.

14 Easy Tips for Organizing Long-Term Files in your home and business
14 EASY TIPS FOR ORGANIZING LONG TERM FILES IN YOUR HOME AND BUSINESS

Now onto the incoming paper mail that 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 better manage the papers coming in.

4 ways to organize incoming paper mail
4 WAYS TO ORGANIZE INCOMING PAPER MAIL

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

Garage Small Things Organizing Tips

The next area to organize is your gardening supplies. Below, I talk about how I organized my cabinet on a budget. But, you can easily use these tips for your garage gardening supplies area. Click-through and read more.

Amazing and Easy Tips to Organize an Outside Cabinet Storage on a budget
AMAZING AND EASY TIPS TO ORGANIZE AN OUTSIDE CABINET STORAGE ON A BUDGET

You probably have small items to help keep your furniture from damaging your carpets and rugs. 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.

How To Organize Extra Felt Pads And Hooks Like A Pro
HOW TO ORGANIZE EXTRA FELT PADS AND HOOKS LIKE A PRO

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

24 Useful Items For Your Family's Organized Car
24 USEFUL ITEMS FOR YOUR FAMILY'S ORGANIZED CAR

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

Creative Ways to Organize Tools in a Closet
CREATIVE WAYS TO ORGANIZE TOOLS IN A CLOSET

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

Kids Rooms and Playroom areas to Organize the Small Stuff

Let's first start out 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 craft room small things organizing.

How to Make a Fun Kids Craft Room
HOW TO MAKE A FUN KIDS CRAFT ROOM

And, if your child love to play make-believe or games. The post below will help you organize the play area for your kiddo.

How to make a Fabulous Playroom
HOW TO MAKE A FABULOUS PLAYROOM

Now, onto those kids who love them 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 too.

Organizing Small Sports Equipment For Kids
ORGANIZING SMALL SPORTS EQUIPMENT FOR KIDS

Now, on to the bedrooms of the children.

Organizing Small Things in The Kids Closets

Below is an example of how we organized my kids closets.

6 Steps to Organize Kids Closets
6 STEPS TO ORGANIZE KIDS CLOSETS

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.

organizing a boys room tips
ORGANIZING A BOYS ROOM IN JUST TWO HOURS

And, if you have a baby, you can use some of these small items organizing tips for their room as well.

Organizing the Baby Room #baby #room #organization
EASY TIPS WHEN ORGANIZING THE BABY ROOM

Well, there you have it! There are other small items to organized in a home, so I plan on sharing it 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.

How To Organize Small Items in the Home
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  1. Ronni

    April 27, 2020 at 11:22 pm

    Just last week I worked on our freezer. It was a mess. I hated opening the door fearing food would fall out. My husband went grocery shopping and my son thought he was helping by putting everything away by the shoving in method. So I took everything out and decided to organize the freezer into three sections: husband, son and myself. Two of us are vegetarians, my husband loves meat. My son could eat pizza seven nights a week and I love vegetables.
    The system seems to be working for us. Even the small items.

  2. Janet Schiesl

    April 27, 2020 at 2:40 pm

    You always have such great content. The small things can be hard to organize, but if you don’t I’ll just become clutter.

  3. Linda Samuels

    April 27, 2020 at 10:54 am

    Your post is a deep dive of ways to handle smaller organizing projects- a wealth of information! While it might feel overwhelming to select which project or projects to do, once decided, a small task can be so satisfying. It has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. And the total timeframe is usually manageable- from minutes to under an hour. If someone doesn't know where to begin, I can envision creating a small organizing project jar. List each mini project on a slip of paper, fold, and put them in the container. When you're ready, pull one out and go with that project. That could add an element of fun and surprise to the process.

    • Sabrina Quairoli

      April 27, 2020 at 12:19 pm

      Great idea, Linda! I love the organizing jar idea. =) Thanks for sharing.

  4. Seana Turner

    April 27, 2020 at 10:25 am

    Wow - this is a ton of content. Someone could just park on this page for the remainder of the quarantine:) Lots of great links for finding tips on the project you are "in the mood" to tackle!

    • Sabrina Quairoli

      April 27, 2020 at 12:22 pm

      Lol, that's so true. I wanted to bring all the small items organization posts into one place instead of visitors looking for them. I know it is overwhelming, but hopefully, people will pick and choose the one they want to work on and leave the rest for later. =) Thanks for commenting, Seana!

  5. Hazel Thornton

    April 27, 2020 at 9:29 am

    Nice "Small Things" blog post roundup, Sabrina!

  6. Janet Barclay

    April 27, 2020 at 6:18 am

    This is an amazing compilation - something for everyone!

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