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Busy lives and an ever-increasing amount of accumulated belongings makes staying organized difficult. After moving into a new home, you may feel especially disorganized and frustrated as you struggle to unpack. If you feel like you exist in an endless pile of clutter and spend most of your time trying to find things, check out these helpful hacks to keep your home neat and organized!

1. Reuse cans and jars. Saving old tin cans and glass jars is a great way to keep items organized in any room of your home. Store art supplies, cooking and baking ingredients, cosmetics--the possibilities are endless. You can paint the jars or cover the cans in colorful contact paper to match your decor.

2. Make an earring rack. Jewelry can be one of the most challenging things to keep neat and organized. Long necklaces become easily tangled, and earrings scattered across your dresser top are often misplaced. Save space by storing your jewelry on the wall with a a large picture frame and some chicken wire. Cut the wire to fit and staple it to the back of your frame. Mount it on your wall and hang earrings, necklaces, scarves, sunglasses and more! (Note: attach necklaces, scarves, and other hook-less items with small clips).

3. Keep bathroom items on a magnetic strip. Ever spend a half hour digging through a drawer under the sink searching for a pair of tweezers or a bobby pin? Keep these small items neatly organized and easily accessible by hanging a magnetic strip on your bathroom wall.

4. Keep accessories organized with a painter's palette. Is your bureau or vanity in chaotic disarray? Use a painter's palette to keep your rings, small earrings, hair clips, and other accessories neatly organized and displayed.

5. Divide drawers with shoe boxes. Dresser, cabinet, or vanity drawers can easily become a disorganized mess. Divide the drawers with old shoe boxes to create compartments and keep items inside neatly separated and easy-to-find.

6. Color code your keys. Too many keys cluttering your key ring? Select several different nail polish colors and paint each key a different shade. You will easily find the one you need when your arms are loaded with shopping bags.

7. Make magnetic spice jars. No space in your kitchen cabinets or on your counters for a fancy spice rack? Fill small glass jars--such as baby food jars--with various spices. Glue magnets to the lids and stick them to your fridge.

8. Create a closet. Insufficient closet space--or worse, no closet at all? Create your own installing by a high shelf on your bedroom wall. Beneath the shelf, install a tension rod or hooks to hang clothes, handbags, scarves and coats. Attach a piece of fabric in a vibrant color or print from the bottom of the shelf to hide your homemade storage space. Use the shelf to store shoe boxes or folded clothes.

9. Create a wall-hanging cabinet out of a drawer. Limited cabinet space in your bathroom or kitchen? Lack of storage in your bedroom? Mount a drawer from an old dresser on your wall to use as a charming cabinet/shelf for storing a variety of items. Line the bottom of the drawer with pretty contact paper to give your shelf an attractive background.

10. Hang a tiered vegetable basket for bathroom storage. Three-tiered wire vegetable baskets are not only handy for storing produce. These fun and convenient hanging baskets can also increase your storage options in a small bathroom. No floor space required--hang it from the ceiling and use the baskets for storing lotions, soaps, bath beads, hand towels, loofahs, and other bathroom necessities.

Nicole La Capria  Posted by Nicole La Capria on April 9, 2013

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