Organizational tips

jemasa33

With the holidays coming up, I figured it would be useful to share any ideas about organizing toys, puzzles, games, and whatnot. What have you all found that has been useful?

jemasa33

Right now we are building a play room with a closet in our basement. I am really excited, but I think it is going to turn into yet another room that I have to clean. Our current debate is whether or not to build shelves in the new closet for toys or to leave it as a regular closet.

We also have a few of floor puzzles with destroyed boxes. I am thinking about mounting some office document holders on the door of my closet to put them in. 

I also have the Melissa and Doug puzzle organizer. They sell one at Target that comes with three puzzles. It keeps the majority of my smaller puzzles organized. I bought it about 6 months ago and I've loved it ever since.

The rest of my house looks like ToysRUs exploded.

jemasa33

@econmama when SD was a baby, we would do all of those things. Our tiny apartment was so clean and organized! I miss that!

jemasa33

@lizbethann06 that looks really nice! You did a good job!

andrea0418

I just bought shelf/cubbies like @lizabethann06‌
Most of his toys are in the living room so I liked that this stores all the little toys nicely.

arlingirl

andrea0418 said:

I just bought shelf/cubbies like @lizabethann06‌
Most of his toys are in the living room so I liked that this stores all the little toys nicely.

We are going to do this. Is that from target?

KMRR86

We have the same cube/shelf things with fabric storage cubes. They're great and hold a ton!

MRads

I just try to not buy toys for my kid. Just kidding.

Kind of. I only keep a few toys in rotation in the living room at a time. But we don't have a separate play room and I don't want the living room to be a constant toy zone. But I'm also not a sahm and we really aren't home that much, so it works.

beckyanddon

We just live in the chaos of a toy store.... Over my christmas break I'm doing a massive sort and sell

jemasa33

I have the cubes also and I love them. I have the 2 by 3 one, but I wish I would have bought the larger one! We have so many large toys in our house that don't fit in those bins though! They are great for the smaller stuff! 

new2011mommy

We also have the cubes from target. We bought two of the largest size they sold and stacked them. I think they are 6 cubes across. They are in our family room because we do not have a play room. We also have a toy box filled with toys.

andrea0418

arlingirl said:

andrea0418 said:

I just bought shelf/cubbies like @lizabethann06‌
Most of his toys are in the living room so I liked that this stores all the little toys nicely.

We are going to do this. Is that from target?

I got them at big lots. The 9 cube shelf was $40.