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I cannot comprehend how someone could work in this clutter. It would eat me. Photo courtesy of sindesign. Licensed under CC BY-2.0.
I'm not sure if y'all can tell by now, but I dislike living in dorm rooms. It's kind of been a recent theme of my posts recently. In the past few weeks, I've given tips about how to make living in dorms bearable, such as the best ways to clean your room, ways to get to sleep in a noisy environment, and wrangling those pesky cords.
So, today I'm going to talk to you about some organization techniques that you can use to help make your room a little more livable. Dorm rooms are small. Some are itty bitty. In such a small space, when a room gets even a little bit messy and disorganized, it seems to take over the entire room. For me, keeping my room organized helps me not only feel more at home in a dorm but helps me work better too.
White Boards and Bulletin Boards
If you don't have one of these babies, you should go out to Target or some local megastore and get one. They are fabulous and I will tell you why. First of all they take up wall space and make your walls look less blank. My dorm walls have always been this kind of horrid prison grey and so I've always been eager to fill the space up. White boards and bulletin boards do just the trick. Obviously, they can do more than just take up space since you can tack on little decorative things as well.
As far as organization goes though, they're a great place to keep important sheets of paper. Unlike keeping things on your desk where things may or may not fall off/behind/under/into Narnia, magnets and thumbtacks keep your papers in place. Keep your boards in a place you often look at like next to your desk or the wall in front of your bed, and you'll have to look at them every day which will be a good reminder that you need to take care of whatever paper you've tacked to your boards. Additionally, I use my white board to organize not only my papers but my day-to-day activities. Every week, I make a long list of things I need to do by the end of the week. Seeing it every day reminds me what I need to do and so I keep myself organized and on track.
If you ever have trouble hanging up bulletin boards or white boards you should simply refer to my next point.
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