An Extra Hour Every Day

Every room in your home shall have a purpose. Based on the purpose of the room you will be able to clearly distribute objects and activities to each room. The benefits are that you will:

Make better use of your space:

When you start thinking about the current functions of each room you might realize that certain rooms have no function at all or a function which is hardly ever used. You then will start assigning one or more functions to each room depending on their size, layout and the overall availability of space. Typical functions in a household can be:

• Home office
• Cooking & food storage
• Eating
• Personal care
• Playing, hobby, etc.
• Washing, ironing, etc.
• General storage
• In- and out of the place
• Representation and guests 
• etc.

After completion of this exercise many people wonder how much space they have in reality. This gives you a chance for a wider living or to reduce space (and costs) the next time you move your home.

Reduce clutter:

When objects do not have unique place where they belong to they tend to be flying around here and there. Once you have defined the functions of each room, you can easily define where many objects belong to and assign them a fixed place. If necessary you can add storage place like shelves, so that you have all objects you need there directly under your eyes. As a result you will see less objects being left at places they do not belong to.

Identification of unused objects:

You might not find a suitable place for some objects. For these you should honestly think if you really need them and if it would not be wiser to get rid of them, eliminating a potential source for future cluster.

It is also important that you involve your family since every member of the household needs to understand and support the concept. You also will get more ideas and achieve better results by involving others.

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