Think about what happens in your home each and every day that results in messy build-up…
People eat – resulting in dirty dishes
People wear clothing – resulting in dirty laundry
People make messes – resulting in dirt/crumbs etc. Paper will enter your life – piles will build
Developing a habit of tending to a few routine tasks per day will ultimately save you large amounts of time and stress that will result when allowed to build up over time.
If you’re new to building routine home maintenance tasks into your day, don’t forget to ‘start small’ with this goal as well…
Now that we’re about midway through the 31 days, I thought it would be helpful to to add in a few additional doses of ‘Motivation’ before moving onto the next phase…
What is feeling ‘all mixed up’ in your world currently?? Begin focusing your organizing efforts there.
Are you running out of options to assign ‘homes’ to your belongings? Perhaps more clutter needs to be cut out… If you’re still feeling stuck in the process of cutting through the clutter, consider these questions:
The key to keeping magazines under control is to give them a ‘home‘ that specifically limits the number you can have. The space you dedicate to these materials should realistically relate to the amount of space you actually have as a whole to store them.
The smaller the space you live in, the smaller the space you’ll have to dedicate to non-essential items like magazines.
A great solution for small spaces is a wall-mounted unit like this:
Take some time to establish some realistic boundaries or limits to amount of magazines you plan to store at any given time. This is especially important if you have subscriptions to one or even multiple magazines – it is always a guarantee that MORE are coming.
Maybe you’ll be really strict and establish a one-in, one-out rule where when you receive a new issue, you part with the older issue. Or, maybe you’ll decide to keep up to 3-5 total back issues. The key is is to establish at least some kind of boundary or expectation. Even if you do have the space to dedicate nearly completely to magazines like this shelving unit:
The key is to take plenty of time to really consider the ‘why’ behind the desire to keep multiple issues of magazines. Are you actually taking the time to look through all those back issues? Do you need to keep the entire magazine, or would one or two pages really be sufficient for the purposes of your retention? Let the answers to those questions be the start to help guide your limits and boundaries plan for magazine storage.
