There are days when you are too lazy to tidy up the bit. You come back from work (or finish work if you have an office in your own home) and all you want is to rest a bit to regain strength and energy for the next day. And so day after day, until you realize that your house has turned into a real jungle.

Did you know that mess at home can have fatal consequences for you?  By the author of the book ‘Order your house, your mind and your life’ Leticia Pérez Serrano, we are going to discover some consequences of disorder as well as benefits of ordering. And we even go over how to organize your home. Are you ready? Let’s start!

Different consequences of disorder at home

Normally, when there is a mess in our house, it is because we have a big mess inside. Clutter can have consequences in many areas: physical, emotional and economic. Let’s see them!

Physical consequences

Disorder has physical consequences, since a disordered space is located as soon as it is seen. You don’t have to be an expert for that, but it also goes much further. When there is disorder there is accumulation and not only of things, dust, bacteria and germs also accumulate, making us more prone toallergiesand even increasing the risk of fires.

Emotional consequences

The anxiety, stress and lack of peace that we all yearn for so much is caused by the disorder at home. We feel that everything is out of our control, we don’t know where to start, we are ashamed to show our house and we become antisocial. We forget birthdays, we don’t have time to rest, and when we do, we feel bad because our house is dirty. We arrived late to the places because we couldn’t find the car keys…

Economic consequences

In addition to the two previous ones, the disorder at home can also cause many economic consequences. For example, buying twice, renting a storage room to store all those things that we accumulate but never use… Or even late payments due to poor organization of the letters or the whole issue of paperwork.

What are the benefits of having a well-ordered home?

• Now that we know the consequences of clutter, it remains for us to take a closer look at the many benefits that a more organized home can have. Leticia Pérez Serrano tells us about all those benefits that make the consequences, little by little, disappear.
• Order is more important than we think. It has many benefits and not only on a physical level. Of course, seeing an orderly room is much more pleasant than a messy space, but the magic of all this is the benefits it brings us on a mental or emotional level.
• Order simply simplifies our lives; it provides us with that peace that we may need in our day to day. It makes us feel much calmer, happier, have a better relationship with the rest of the inhabitants of the house… And it also provides us with greater security and a higher level of self-esteem. What is the greatest benefit that order brings us? He gives us a lot of time. Time to enjoy the things that really matter.

Order at home: what is the best way to organize your home? 

Your house surely has different rooms: the living room, the kitchen, the bedrooms, the bathroom… How to have all this organized correctly? In any room in our house, the most important thing is to keep in mind that less is more. The fewer things we have, the less time we will have to dedicate to cleaning, repairing or maintaining.

Organization of the room: the closet

• Surely it has happened to you more than once: you open you’re and you don’t even know what clothes you have because everything is disorganized. That ended! What you should do is pick a day when you have all the time in the world and get down to business. Take everything out of the closet and group it in different piles (shirts with shirts, pants with pants…) after placing the clothes in sections, we recommend that you use the same hangers to create harmony and reduce visual noise and vertical folding.
• It is important for a good wardrobe to have basic garments that can be used for everything, for more than one occasion. Neutral colors (white, black, beige…) that are highly combinable with each other are essential. The important thing is that there is not too much accumulation in your closet.

Kitchen and bathroom organization

• Of course, the rooms that cost the motto in a house are the kitchen and the bathroom, don’t you think? For this reason, we must take into account some organization tips so that we have everything more or less organized and know what we have and what we don’t. In this way, we will avoid the consequences that we have explained a few lines above.
• Both in the kitchen and in the bathroom, it is best to clear the countertops as much as possible. This simple gesture will create a before and after in the order of these rooms, because in addition to having more clear space, it will facilitate the task of express cleaning.
• In addition, it is essential to organize the products a bit with the corresponding drawer organizers or fridge and pantry trays, in the case of the kitchen. In this way you will know exactly what you have and you will not have duplicate products, just like in the bathroom.
• In the, for its part, you can also organize everything by sections (just like in the closet) but this time depending on the care products you have: for example, hair, body, face, makeup… As well as a section of things that you use daily, in this way it will make your life much easier.
• Now that you know all the fateful consequences of mess at home, all that remains is for you to get down to work and organize your home well.