New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Organize Your Home

The best New Year’s resolution ideas are straightforward, practical, and impactful. So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone to read that if there’s one thing you should be prepared to do as 2023 marches into 2024 is to keep your home organized.

Keeping your home clutter-free is an admirable goal. But we know it’s not as easy as other guides may make it out to be.

That said, staying clean and organized is easier when you don’t view it as one gigantic task as much as one made up of smaller undertakings.

So, we’ll do the same here. To help with your New Year’s resolution for 2024, we’ve broken up the work by room.

Maintain a Clean and Organized Bathroom Year Round

Everyone wants a clean bathroom, but no one really enjoys cleaning the space. It can be back-breaking, joint-aching work.

Of course, a cleaner is only as good as their tools. That’s why we recommend Wet & Forget Shower for your bathroom cleaning duties. 

It’s a weekly shower spray free of bleach, ammonia, and irritating fumes. A weekly application on your shower, bath, and sinks can keep away soap scum and shower grime. 

In fact, it’s safe to use on almost any bathroom surface except for natural marble.

Simply spray down your shower after the last shower of the day and rinse shower surfaces with water the next day. For use on sinks, toilets, or vanities, spray and rinse immediately after use.

Now, the goal here isn’t just a clean bathroom but an organized one, too. If there’s one area where almost any bathroom could use an organizational refresh, it is the vanity.

Luckily, there are plenty of options, both store-bought and homemade, that can assist with the project of counters without clutter. 

Boxes, trays, and cups all give your stuff a place to reside that isn’t just lying about in unoccupied space.

A bonus tip: if a box or cup is too tall for toothbrushes or other bathroom tools, pour some uncooked rice into the bottom of the container for an easy height boost.

(Finally) Tackle Your Closets

What lives unseen is left unclean. That’s why closets are often the last thing left to organize, even after every other nook and cranny of the home has received its due consideration.

So, of all the New Year’s resolutions ideas we offer here, tackling your closet may be the one that’s most worthy of your attention. 

There are plenty of ways to get started. First is to go through your bedroom closet and start making tough decisions about whether that sweater your niece bought you two years ago will finally get its day out in the sun.

Marie Kondo, the world-famous home organizer, offers a simple process to make this all easier: Touch each piece of clothing and ask yourself, “Does it bring me joy?”

If the answer is “yes,” then find a spot for it in your closet. If it doesn’t, then add it to the donation pile.

Should you still be stuck struggling for closet space, it may also be time to reexamine your current storage methods. Many people, for instance, can save space and make their shirts more accessible by simply folding them properly. 

Linen closets can also be another pesky spot to organize and de-clutter. As with bedroom closets, the issue is often one of trying to stuff too much stuff into too small of a space.

So, when it comes to bed linens, limit yourself to three options per bed. That allows you to have one in the hamper, one deployed to your bed, and a clean option that’s ready to go.

Use that rule of three for bath sets — towels, bath mats, and washcloths — to create even more space. Of course, if you tend to wash towels daily or young children who wreck towels with reckless abandon, feel free to give yourself an additional spare set or two.

Keep a Clean Entry Way

Your entryway is the first impression your home gives to most guests. Yet, when it comes to New Year’s resolution ideas, it often sits beneath higher-priority organizational tasks like bathrooms.

To get started, you’ll need to assess what’s in your entryway or mudroom to determine whether it actually needs to be there. Then, sort everything into one of four groups: donate, relocate, throw out, and keep. 

With everything removed from its spot, give all surfaces the deep cleaning they deserve. While shelves, floors, and other surfaces dry, decide what needs to go where.

Remember, too, that as good as you want your entryway to look, it will quickly return to its disheveled self if your new organizational system isn’t functional. Everyone in your family should have easy access to grab what they need and return it to where it belongs.

Tools like key racks, hanging baskets, and cubbies allow people to visibly see where things are. That will then make it easier to put them back in the right spot.

A simple three-sectioned magazine file can also give mail a proper place to sit once brought into the house. However, it’s often easier to sort and deal with your mail immediately to ensure that a surprise bill isn’t forgotten.

Launder Your Laundry Room

When it comes to unique New Year’s resolutions, it’s time to finally consider this timely question: your laundry room cleans your clothes, but who cleans your laundry room? 

Fortunately, we’re happy to answer that question for you. Wet & Forget Indoor and Wet & Forget Shower can clean, sanitize, and deodorize your washer and dryer.

Wet & Forget Shower is particularly effective against soap scum. In most cases, you’ll find those pesky stains on plastic agitators, fabric softener dispensers, and, in front-loading machines, around door seals.

Simply spray and then run a hot wash cycle the next morning.

If you’re dealing with musty odors, spray Wet & Forget Indoor inside the washing machine, making sure to pay specific attention to the rubber gasket around the opening. Wait 10 minutes and then wipe dry.

That said, a laundry room is more than just the machines that inhabit it. It’s a space that requires organization as any other in your home.

To make your laundry room more organized, try to make it functional. Make specific areas focused on a specific task: stain treatment, ironing, and folding.

Within each of those areas, keep the necessary tools nearby and grouped together. Keep stain removal sticks in a cup, store your iron safely, and keep surfaces free for ample folding space.

If you’re lucky enough to have a spacious laundry room, your only task here may be simply moving things around. If you’re like many of us, you’ll have to find creative solutions to solve your space issues.

Instead of looking horizontally for more counter and cabinet space, start thinking vertically. New shelves can add more space for clothes cleaning without dirtying your budget.

The Top New Year’s Resolutions for 2023, 2024, and Beyond!

Keeping your home clean and organized never goes out of style. So, no matter what year we’re approaching, there’s likely an area in your home that could use some cleaning, de-cluttering, and organizing.

With our organizational New Year’s resolution ideas, you’ll have everything you need to start January on the right foot!