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When we were in the midst of our kitchen reno, for example, I gathered up all of my kitchen items– gadgets, small appliances, plates, cups, utensils, everything– all in one place so I could see exactly what we had. When I go about decluttering a space, I am absolutely ruthless. Since we don’t have a ton of space to work with, every inch has to be used well. If you can push past that mental block of being afraid to throw things away, it is seriously so freeing once you’re done!ĭecluttering our garage last summer… it had to get worse before it got better! And I’m not even using my teaching degree!īut eventually I realized that I wanted a calm, peaceful, uncluttered house more than I wanted to have random notes lying around because I might need them “sometime.” And you know what? There hasn’t been one thing that I’ve thrown out while I was decluttering that I ended up absolutely needing later. I so hear you on this one. I confess: I held on to binders filled with my hand written notes from every college class for 7 years after I graduated. It’s hard to let go of things sometimes because we think, “Well what if I need that someday…?” The problem is that I have too much stuff. Declutter often.Īfter years and years of organizing and re-organizing in different homes, I’ve often found that the small space isn’t necessarily the problem. For more information, see my disclosures here.

Organise your home how to#

SIGN ME UP! How to Get Organized When You Live in a Small House I am so thankful for our home, but there have definitely been times where I have said, “We just need MORE ROOM!!” It’s kind of a tight squeeze with four of us, especially as the boys get older, but we have managed to make it work and we even all still love each other, so I feel like that’s a win! 🙂Īfter hearing from my readers, it seems like many of you are dealing with small spaces too, so I thought I would compile a list of some of my favorite small space living tips to share.

SEVEN! Though we hadn’t planned on being here for that long, it has been fun to have the time to transform the space and truly make it ours. It was just the two of us, so it wasn’t terrible, but it was definitely cozy to say the least!īy the time Connor was born, we were living in a teeny tiny two bedroom townhouse where we had to push our dining room table back into a corner to make way for a pack-n-play.Ĭurrently, our family of four lives in a three bedroom townhouse, which is where we’ve been for nearly seven years now.

Right after we got married, Donnie and I lived in the obligatory one bedroom apartment. Good thing I loved my roomies– it was close quarters! During my first year of college, my dorm room was what they called a “converted triple,” meaning that it was actually made for two people, but they stuck three of us in there. Make sure your devices are protected by appropriate security software, wherever possible.I have lived in a lot of small spaces in my lifetime. To minimize this risk, practice good security principles at home: Keep all your devices up to date with the latest software, be picky about which apps, programs, and browser extensions you install, and protect your devices with long, difficult-to-guess passwords that are all different from each other. With that in mind, one of the highest risks to your router is that it's compromised by a device that it thinks it can trust-in other words, something on your phone or laptop gets access to it and causes some mischief, perhaps by secretly opening an entry point to your router that can be accessed remotely. They now handle lot of the key security settings for you. Manufacturers appreciate the importance of router security and reliability more than ever, so the products are much more user-friendly than they used to be. Despite decades of relative neglect, most routers launched in the last couple of years come with excellent security built in.