The holiday season has come and gone, but households can be left with a clutter hangover. With new toys coming in and taxing storage space, how can families best organize kids' bedrooms, basements and playrooms?
Long Island professional organizers and savvy parents offer these 10 tips to regain order and keep things organized in 2019:
GET THE KIDS MOTIVATED Make the task of clearing out what's old, broken or unneeded a positive instead of a negative. If you say to your kids, "You have to get rid of this stuff," their response isn't going to be, "Oh, OK," as they start throwing things away, says Jean Linder, an East Quogue-based professional organizer. More likely they'll grab toys back or try to hide them, she says. Instead, recommend you sort the toys together so they can find them easily and casually suggest getting rid of some they don't play with as you sort.
