Organizing a teens bedroom?

Question

I'm a teen (or pre-teen) and my room is always cluttered. What are some fast, simple ways to get it de-cluttered?? Also, I'm going into 7th grade next year. (First year in middle school) and I know I'm ganna have a lot of homework because I signed up for an honors class. Plus, I'm signing up for basketball. What are some ways to stay on-top of it all??!

Thanks!

Answer 1

First of all, decide what you want to do in your room.  If you want to have a nice place to do homework and be organized with schedules and such, I would suggest making a nice area with a desk, an outlet for computers, music and so on, a place for supplies for school, like paper, pens and pencils, and a calendar for tracking games, social engagements and what not and a nice comfy chair to sit in to do it all.  I would go through my closet and see what fits, what doesn't, what is ratty, torn, missing buttons and so on, and what can just hit the trash bin screaming!  I would donate what I didn't want that was good usable clothing and start with a fresh closet with clothes I love and wear!  I would also have an area for my jewelry, my purses and shoes and a mirror for making sure its all in place and I look good before I leave the house, but you may want to organize it differently according to what YOU need!  I'd have a basket to throw my dirty uniforms and clothes into and to take to the laundry room.  I'd have a nice place to sleep, with comfy pillows and nice clean sheets and a nice bedspread, a night stand with an alarm clock with a really loud alarm.  Being organized from the start will help you make it through your first challenging year at middle school, and help you to feel confident and ready to face the challenges coming your way.  If you are having to fish daily for your shoes for school and for practice and find your homework, you will soon tire of things, simply because it is such a chore to get ready.  Organize your room as you plan to ACTUALLY use it and the rest will start to fall in place!  Hope this helps you!  Good luck!

Answer 2

The best way to stay on top of it is to make yourself hang up your clothes before going to bed. And on weekends do a more thorough cleaning. It's great you want to do the cleaning. I'm impressed.

Answer 3

Try the following.1. put all laundry in the hamper as soon as you take it off 2 put your clean laundry away right away 3. make your bed  in the morning 4 if you have a desk ,keep clutter on the desk to a minimum  so you have a clean work surface 5  designate each drawer for a purpose ( computer paper,pens,file folders etc.6 put storage baskets in your closet so out of season clothing  can be stored on the top shelf , hanging bags to store shoes or keep the shoe boxes and put a photo on the front of box so you can tell what the shoe looks like.7. have furniture serve more than one purpose .for example a window seat can also serve as storage  a storage cube can act as an extra seat 8 have a waste basket and empty it routinely 9 use under the bed storage containers.

Answer 4

lol thats weird...im going into 7th grade too. If your room is old, ask your mom if you can get the walls pained and get like a new theam for your room and then when you pauint it...yuou have to take all the furnature out so therefor, you have to clean your desks, dressers, ect. out. Im re-doing my room and its really clean now! hah and im really messy too (:

Answer 5

if you have heaps of homeworks sheets, get a cork board and just pin all your notes, homework sheets, reminders and stuff on it.

Answer 6

This is what I do, especially with my clothes. Go through each of your dressers/drawers/etc. and pull EVERYTHING out! Then organize two piles. One for throwing it away/giving it to charity, and then stuff you want to keep. Then get some small baskets or whatever and organize it like put all pens/pencils/erasers/etc. in one baskets, batteries in another, accessories in another, etc.  Then for your clothes, take everything out of ALL of your drawers! Organize those into casual clothes or fancier, nice clothes. Usually I try to hang my nicer clothes in my closet so they won't get wrinkled. Pretty soon, your room will be as clean as a whistle!

Answer 7

Shove it all under the bed =]

Thats what I do!

Lol

Answer 8

Depending on how much money you have, you can either buy organizers at places like the Container Store, Ikea, or Wal-mart.  First, sort your things to get an idea how much you have.  Get rid of all the things you no longer wear. Wait until after school starts before you buy new clothes, as you may decide to buy completely different things.  Decide how often you will use things.  You want items used daily to be out and handy.  We used to cut up cardboard boxes and used them to customize storage in the shelf of the closet and in the drawers.  Cover them with pretty wrapping paper or shelf paper.  Put drawer organizers in a lattice pattern, or run front to back to make rows for your socks,etc.  Put hair ribbons or items for hair in a plastic basket.  Do the same with all your other toiletries. Find a logical place to store them.  Do you have a dressing table or desk that can double as one?  Mount a mirror over it, and a small shelf under the mirror for the smaller items.  Many toiletries are less than 3" wide.  For the school things, a shelf up high for the less used items, another one lower for the daily things, and if you can put one under your desk you can store your printer paper and desk supplies.  Put things in their logical places according to use.  

Can you put in a closet organizer for your clothes?  It is fairly easy to put things away if you know where it goes.  Then it's just a habit.  Shelves for your sweaters, shoes, etc.  Shoes only need 4-5" between shelves, and you can get additional shelving material from the lumber store.  If you don't have a saw to cut to length, Home Depot can do it for about $1.00 a cut.  If you get 18" wide material, all you need to do is give them the right length, but remember to make it about 1/4" less than the opening.  Out of season clothes can go in underbed organizers or large boxes at the top of the closet.  If you have room, you might be able to add a second shelf in the closet, or around the room near the ceiling about 14-18" below the ceiling.  Your nightstand can help organize by putting study materials in it if you are short on desk space.  Get a day timer to organize your schedule.  Good luck and have fun!

Answer 9

These are just three i use

1- have a desk in your room!!

2- have a folder for each class ( you can put last term papers in it.) That keeps you school locker clean.

3-  If your room gets messy at all just take 5 min of the day to pick stuff up. ( This will help alot because that way you dont keep puting more, and more junk in you room)

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Answer 10

how about tossing out the c**p you don't want ...envision what you want your room to look like and start at it. Do the 5 minute tidy..5 mins to tiday clothing, 5 mins to tidy books ect. Then all it takes is 5 mins a day to clean the whole room.