6 New Years Resolutions for Your Home

As New Year rolls around,  we vow to keep our resolutions to improve ourselves, but what about improving the spaces we live in? They can have just as much of an impact on your life as exercising and eating right. Clutter, chaos, and stress in your home probably don’t bode well for your personal health!  Make these 6 resolutions for your home this year and really improve your living conditions!

1. Lose Weight: Cut the clutter! Having stacks and piles of old items you never use or no longer need doesn’t do anything but clog up valuable storage space and make finding the things you actually need harder than it has to be. Take time to separate the things you actually use from those you keep “just in case” and shed those extra pounds of clutter in 2016!
2. Save More: Find ways to make your home more energy efficient in 2016! Whether is it’s a big project like updating insulation or windows or something as simple as putting your home on a smart home system, like Nest, it’s a great way to create monthly savings for your family. You could even start by making sure you don’t leave lights on when you leave a room, every little bit helps.
3. Spend Less: Budget, budget budget! If you create a plan for how you want to spend your money, it’s less likely that you will walk into a store and drop more than you can afford on new items. Make a plan for upgrades for your home, budget and save for them, and in the long run it will help limit the amount of debt you acquire through home maintenance and updates this year.
4. Get Organized: Take time to create a space for everything in your home. If you can’t find a space for it, then maybe you need to add it to your “weight loss plan” from number one. Creating organization systems in your home might seem tedious or time consuming at first, but once you have created the system it will make cleaning up and re-organizing later SO much easier.
5. Plan Ahead: Create a chore and maintenance schedule for your home. Make a list of things to do weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually to keep your home properly maintained, and then schedule the items accordingly. By having a pre-made checklist, it’s much easier to stay on task and some of the semi-annual and annual projects won’t sneak up on you!
6. Be More Social: Take time to create space for entertaining in your home this year. There are so many easy spruce up projects you can find on sites like pinterest or realsimple.com to help you step up your entertaining spaces, so idea surf and see what catches your eye and how you can make it work in your space!