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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 kids and 2 dogs.  It takes a lot of daily clean up.  We have a housecleaner every week and hired a professional organizer to get the pantry, laundry room, mudroom and closets set up with a good system I could continue. I get stressed if the house is messy so it’s a lot of effort on my part - you just have to decide if it’s worth it to you or not.  [/quote]

OP here - thats the thing though, its totally worth it to me!  In general my house is clean. We have bi-weekly cleaners, the pantry, garage, fridge, closets are all organized and we have a good system. Its just the small random things that sit around that drives me nuts.  The mail that needs to be sorted, the Amazon return that needs to go to UPS store, the kids art work that came home from school, a random rubber band from one of the kids that got left on the counter, etc.  It just all adds up and to me it makes the house messy.  My husband is thankfully also a neat freak but we just don't have enough time in the day to keep everything as clean and organized as we would prefer.

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I can offer a solution for your returns. I have a dedicated shelf in a main level closet for returns, boxes I haven’t opened yet, donations, etc.  I realized I needed one empty shelf to house things that were on their way IN or OUT of our house, but needed a place in the meantime.  [/quote]

I have this too! There is an empty shelf in our coat closet just for unopened packages/pending returns/bags to be taken to goodwill. And I don’t have a big house (no garage or mud room). We’ve just learned to keep our coats and boots somewhat minimal so our entry closet can serve as a staging area for life stuff.[/quote]

Not OP but thank you for this idea! Never occurred to me but I’m going to put a basket in my coat closet for this purpose. Only wrinkle is not forgetting about the returns due to the ‘out of sight/out of mind’ phenomenon. [/quote]

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