Colour-Code your Fridge

If you have lots of little ones (or any combination of big and little ones) it can be a little difficult to keep track of which items in your fridge belong to which family member.

Assign everyone a unique colour that will help them grab their lunches and snacks on the fly. You can use anything from post-its or elastic bands, to stickers or pieces of electrical tape. Re-use this colour throughout the house to help organize other rooms.

Stack Family Shoes in Boxes

Empty wine boxes (or any box with dividers) are a great way to keep everyone’s shoes separate and avoid a messy pile. You can even give your impromptu shoe racks a new do by wrapping them in coloured paper.

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Make a Rotating Chore List

Dividing household chores can help make your family life a little less chaotic. But there are times where your chore-mates will need to switch around their to-do lists to keep up with changing schedules, or to keep them from getting too discouraged with repetitive tasks. Create a page for each family member, placed in a visible spot (the fridge door is a top contender) and create different post-its for different chores.

Older kids will appreciate the option to physically trade their post-it chores, and your significant other will be grateful for the heads up when something needs to be added to their list.

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Keep Hairpins in Plain Sight

Long hair complicates things, especially when it belongs to toddlers. Most of us need a collection of bobby pins, headbands and elastics to keep hair out of tiny eyes, or tiny mouths.

A simple magnetic strip could save you a lot of time looking for the pins that hold your kids’ hair-dos together. Add a binder clip or two to hold their favorite elastics.

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Scoop the Toys Away

When kids need to settle down for homework time, keeping toys out of the way is a necessity. Tiny toys such as legos, toy cars or doll accessories don’t always come with their own containers, and leaving them loose in a toy crate means there’s a risk of losing them.

Empty plastic milk or juice jugs are a good way to scoop and store all of your kids’ bits and bobs. Cut off part of the top with an x-acto knife while keeping the handle intact to create a perfect scooper.

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