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Labels are a great way to keep your mudroom organized throughout the school year so don’t forget to do that at the end! Make sure that everything that remains is truly what your family needs, loves or uses. Give each person a station for coats, book bags and extracurricular activities bags whether that’s a hook, a section in the closet or a section on a built-in. Make sure that only the shoes used every week are stored in the mudroom, try keeping the rest of the shoes in each respective person’s closet if possible. Create a bin for hats, gloves and scarves either for each person or by category depending on your family. Get the backpacks cleaned out or move in the new backpacks. Start by sorting and purging the space, getting rid of items that are worn, torn or too small. It’s a high-traffic area and can easily become cluttered with shoes, coats, hats, gloves and the like. This space in your home is usually off of the garage and the first and last space within your home that you see when going in or out to the garage. Make it streamlined and easy with drawer dividers or bins that fit the space you are utilizing. The goal is to eliminate stress caused by having to pack lunches the morning of or the night before school. Often a large pull-out bin drawer is best suited for this station. Then gather everything you’ll need to make this space complete: lunch boxes, water bottles, thermoses, food storage containers specific to your children’s lunches, plastic ware or silverware only used for their lunches and a notepad and pen/marker for writing them a note if you like. Make sure and purge any worn-out or stained lunch boxes that need to be replaced as well as any mismatched or broken food storage containers. You’ll want to house this close to where your food storage (baggies & containers) are located since those are typically used for packing lunches as well. If your children are old enough to help pack their lunch, creating this station low enough for them to be able to reach everything is the first step.
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