Organization Tips

Organizational Tip #7

Place your extra roll of trash bags at the bottom of your clean trash can.  When you empty your trash can it makes it very simple to replace the trash bag.

You will have to orient everyone in the family that empties the trash can when you do this. I learned from experience.  When Dave and I got married and his family moved into the house I owned, his oldest son emptied the trash cans a few times – by dumping the whole thing upside down (bag and all) into the outside trash can.  He had no idea I stored an entire roll of clean trash bags at the bottom, so didn’t realize he was throwing them away.

I think it happened twice before he realized (when he could not find any trash bags to replace the ones in the can).

 

 

De-Clutter

Color Code Your Trash Bags!

When you are de-cluttering it is easy to mix up things.  Here is a solution that can help with that.

I suggest getting a box of black trash bags, and a box of white trash bags.  You can also use clear trash bags for recycle.

Trash Bags – Color Code Them

Black is for trash that goes right to the trash can outside.
White is for donate.
Clear for recycle

It is to keep from getting bags mixed up in the clean up and clear out process. As you are loading things into the bags it is easy to think that you will remember what is where….but after you have loaded up several and you happen to take a break and come back to it, its easy to get confused.
You don’t want to accidentally throw away something that was meant to be donated and someone else could use.
I suggest the white for donate and not clear , the reason being -  you don’t get that bag out of the house the same day, it may give you time to reconsider what is in it and you may find yourself pulling things out to keep. Then you are defeating the purpose and you may not get rid of all the clutter you need to.
The clear for recycle because you can then see easily what is paper, what is bottles etc. when you go to take it to the recycle location. (Or hopefully if you are lucky enough…just out to your curb…we aren’t so lucky in our town to have curb side recycle yet. Pain huh?)  Update on that – we now have curb side recycling at our house. Our town has come out of the dark ages!
This simple solution for loading up different colored bags can make things much easier on the “getting out of the house” end of the process.