In-between the lost shoes and your two and five year old fighting, the warm summer months can quickly turn to chaos. When you aren’t chasing a kid down, you’re rescheduling a piano lesson after an emergency arose.

Keeping your home organized during the summer!

Disorganization is a part of the lazy days of summer, but here a few small things you can do to help stay sane during the rest of summer.

To start with, get a shoe organizer. Whether it’s a shoe rack, or a closet shoe organizer, keep it by a main entrance in your home and have your kids store their shoes in the caddy. You won’t regret shelling out twenty bucks for it. Now, the trick is getting your kids to understand that putting their shoes  inside it isn’t a complicated task.

If you’re doing a big declutter or remodeling during the summer, don’t shy away from hiring professionals who can help. For instance, you may rent a dumpster that you can use to collect the trash after cleaning or remodeling your home. You can enlist the help of roll off container services that offer roll off containers and dumpster rental services to get rid of the clutter and debris so it will be easier to tackle.

Use a Rubbermaid tub for wet laundry. When you have wet kids coming inside from the pool and needing a break from the sun, it’s helpful to have a tub in the bathroom that they can place their wet clothes inside. This will save your floors from mildewing and your sanity in the process. And while you’re at it, keep all your bug spray and sunscreen inside a small basket on the bathroom counter for easy access.

Enforce the ten item rule. While you’re prepping lunch or cooking dinner, enforce the ten item rule by having every child pick up ten items laying around and put them away. If you have four kids, or even three, that’s thirty items that were put away!

Create a chore chart with a reward system. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just make up a list of daily chores and the weekly rewards that can be earned by doing them. Think in summer terms, ice cream from the ice cream truck, a trip into town to watch a movie on Saturday, extra video game time, figure out what will motivate your kids to help and go from there. Motivated little hands can be quite helpful when it comes to picking up the yard and living room! If you need help with your major cleaning tasks, you may consider hiring professionals like Birch Cleaners. And for professional cleaning services, trust Keep Cleaning Services to do the job for you.