Post on 26-Aug-2014
description
15-Day Chinese New Year Decluttering
Program
0
…to impress your relatives
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #1 – Gathering stray bottles
1
Preparing to host relatives from overseas? Try
this to neaten up your bathroom.
Replace your multi-sized and multi-shaped
shampoo and body wash bottles with uniformly
sized bottles to make your bathroom feel
organized, less cluttered and be the envy of all
your relatives!
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #2 – Be ready for leftovers
2
Get ready for leftovers. Tackle the Tupperware
lids in the kitchen.
Get them corralled and neatly organized by using
CD racks that you can easily get at Popular or
any homeware store. You’ll be able to whip them
out quickly and send you guests packing (with
leftovers of course!).
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #3 – Preparations for cooking
up a storm, part 1
3
Impress your relatives not just with your cooking
skills, but your massive collection of pots and
pans.
Get a few kitchen rails from IKEA and mount them
to a wall. Your pot lids will find a great resting
place on the rails, and you’ll get an art installation
too! Now, that’s killing two birds with one stone!
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #4 – Preparations for cooking
up a storm, part 2
4
Preparing to cook up a storm with your relatives?
Get your tools in order first – unless you want the
head chef to be shouting for the tools all the time.
Get a few Command hooks, categorize your
cooking utensils, and then plan out where the
hooks should go. Remember to test the
placement out with blu tack first.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #5 – Spice up your life
5
If you are itching to add some spice to
your cooking, first get them organized.
Put the spices into small glass or plastic
containers and write down their names
using a marker. That way, when no one
will mix up the ground cardamom with
the nutmeg.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #6 – Keep the kids occupied
6
To keep the visiting kids from running around and
screaming their lungs out, create a craft box for
them, filled with pencils, crayons, markers,
stickers, etc.
Get these inexpensive pull-out drawers from
Giant, and fill them with all sorts of craft goodies.
And then let the kids’ imagination run wild
(instead of their physical bodies).
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #7 – Hello kids, goodbye toy
clutter
7
Get a few colorful boxes from IKEA to hold all
your card games and toys. Better yet, cut out the
name of the games from their original cardbox
box and stick them onto the side of the new
colorful plastic boxes!
Now it’s easy for the kids to find what they want
and put them back afterwards! No more back-
breaking work for you when the guests leave
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #8 – Divide & conquer
8
Cut up cereal boxes and dress them up in
festive wrapping paper to turn them into
delightful drawer dividers.
Use them for the kids’ stationery, your
spices, or just for the miscellaneous
drawer.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #9 – Entertain your guests, the
old school way
9
When the conversation dies down, and a
newspapers or magazine is the best way
to keep your guests occupied. But the
last thing you want is to have them lying
around on the table, taking up loads of flat
surface area.
Get a tall and narrow basket, where the
magazines and newspapers can go to
rest after they’ve been read. Your guests
can even use it as a foot-rest while
reading.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #10 – Keep the keepsakes
10
Get some file boxes from Popular and create a
memory box for each kid. Place all the
keepsakes you’ve collected for each of your
children in it, including the pretty red packets that
they’ve received over the years (minus the
money, of course).
That way, you can give it to them when they’re
celebrating a significant milestone in their life
years later.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #11 – Stop t-shirt piles from
falling over
11
If your t-shirt pile keeps falling over, get
a few book ends and carve out spaces
for different types of t-shirts on your
shelves. No more Leaning Tower of
Pisa.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #12 – Ready, steady, pout
12
Do you have a sunnies collection to rival Vicky
Beckham? Hang them out (to sun) on a plastic
chain suspended between two hooks attached to
your closet door. Thread the side stem of the
sunglasses through the chain links to prevent
them from sliding around.
And remember to use Command hooks to save
you from drilling into the walls!
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #13 – Finding nemo (earrings)
13
Ice-cube containers has more uses than for
making drinks cold. Try corralling your earrings,
pendants, rings and any other small baubles into
the ice-cube containers and place them in a
drawer.
Having the bling greet you every morning like this
will make your heart sing the whole day.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #14 – Creating scarf-envy
14
Girlfriends coming over? Give
your closet a make-over by
turning your scarf collection into
installation art.
Use disposable drinking cups as
individual compartments for each
of your scarves. Just remember
to stick the bottom of the cups to
the drawer with some blu tack.
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Day #15 – Don’t worry, be happy
15
Finally, don’t worry if you
don’t have everything
organized. Just go with the
flow and enjoy the
festivities. Spending time
with your family and friends
are more important than
fussing over how organized
your home looks. The best
home isn’t one that is
organized, but one that is
full of love and laughter
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Need more help?
Get in touch with us at:
info@edits-inc.com
+65 9431 eight-zero-five-seven
www.edits-inc.com
16
www.edits-inc.com CNY 15-day decluttering
Happy Chinese New Year from Edits Inc!
17