Can't throw anything away?

Can't throw anything away?

Storage solutions and organization tips from professionals for messy closets, clutter kitchens and unorganized homes.
Especially in cities or school dormitories, the upkeep of your wardrobe depends greatly on the available storage space. If you watch HGTV, you've probably seen the folks who end up keeping their shoes atop the kitchen cabinets, and entire families whose basements are buried in the accumulated toys, books, clothes, bedding and furniture of the modern consumer age.But that's them, and this is you. Even if you live in a shoe box-sized apartment, there are things you can do to maximize your closet space and put your stuff away.
Home Organization and Storage
One of the most underrated pieces of storage furniture is the captain's bed. Built ship-style, this bed has drawers underneath that pull out for storage. It's a brilliant use of space because the usual bed is up off the floor, with nothing but flip-flops and dust puppies underneath it.
Entire shelving systems can be created to fit alongside walls or in under-utilized areas. Closed shelves look neater than open ones, but both have their place. Things that get frequent use, like kitchen spices or coffee canisters, should be kept in the open for easy access. Winter bedding and sweaters can go on high, closed shelves in summer, and come down to open closet areas when they're needed.
Large armoires or cabinets can take up a lot more space than they return to you in storage. If you want a grand piece of furniture to hide a few things in, that's fine. But if you want to spend fifty bucks instead of five hundred, and you're looking for serious storage, open wire shelves, bracket shelves and free-standing fabric-walled closets may be more what you're looking for.
The right coat-hangers can maximize the space in your closets by hanging more than one item neatly in such a way that you can still find everything you need without having to dig through the bottom of the closet.
Kitchen Organization and Storage
Sometimes, great big appliances aren't the best choices for small spaces. If you're not a big fan of cooking, a slightly-larger than dorm-sized fridge can hold enough beverages and apples to keep you nourished in between trips for take-out. Hot-plates can be very useful for boiling water and cooking all sorts of stove-top delights, and can be crammed into a drawer when you aren't using them.
A second note about appliances: some of them are just stupid and wasteful. One example would be the potato peeler that works by shoving the tuber onto a spindle and cranking off a thin, winding coil of potato. Cheap ice cream makers don't work either: first, you have to keep the gel-insulated bowl in your freezer so it'll be as cold as possible when you get ready to use it. Then, you have to chill your ice cream mixture for hours in the fridge, then place in the bowl which the goes into the machine. The machine turns the mix, and while it does start to get icy, it doesn't actually freeze until you stop the machine and return the soft serve to the freezer for another couple of hours. The lesson is this" if you must have an ice-cream maker, get the kind that has its own built-in freezer. It costs a lot more, but you'll actually end up with ice cream.
Keeping an Organized Home Maintained
Organization is largely a matter of scheduling periodic maintenance. Some places in your house (e.g., the coffee table in the living-room) need to be de-cluttered daily. Kitchen food cupboards can be rearranged when you bring home new groceries. One way of keeping control of the fridge is to throw something away every day until the smell is gone.