YOUR CLOTHES

Clear your bed or floor space
Begin by grouping like pieces together, for example shirts, pants, suits, dresses, etc.
Then go through each pile and separate the clothing into one of the following categories:
Keep—these items will return to the close

1. Donate—give these pieces to a charity. Make sure they’re still wearable (no stains or missing buttons)
2. Consign—This pile will go to a consignment store. Check the local store’s guidelines for consigning.
3. Give away—These items go to friends or family members

Next, zone your closet—choose specific areas for each category of clothing/shoes/purses. By placing like items together, you gain a clear perspective on what you actually own.

Load clothing into established zones in the closet

Color separate—this gives you a good perspective on how many black t-shirts you actually own and whether or not you really need to keep all of them.

TOYS

"Turn unused wall or door space into storage with peg, Velcro, and hanging-bag systems. They can clear the floor of everything from stuffed animals to backpacks to scooters. A plastic chain is workable for children who are old enough to use the attached clips. A shoe bag can hide inside a closet door or serve as wall decoration. Affixing a Velcro strip to a wall and Velcro pieces to stuffed animals makes cleanup fun for toddlers. " (photo by Bob Hiemstra, from here)

"A Basket in Every Room Place a bin or a sturdy basket in each of the main rooms where your children play. Teach your kids to deposit their toys there when they move from one room to the next. Your nighttime cleanup ritual will be quicker and simpler as the kids will need to go to only one place in each room to retrieve the toys they've played with during the day. "

(from RDLiving)

Label, Label, Label.
"When it comes to keeping kids' rooms organized for the long haul, labels save the day! Use a computer printer to make simple graphic labels for young children. Pictures of socks, shirts, dolls or blocks help remind the child where these items belong. Enhance reading skills for older children by using large-type word labels.

Slap labels everywhere: inside and outside of drawers, on shelf edges and on the plastic shoebox storage containers that belong there, on boxes and bookcases and filing cubes. Playing "match the label" can be fun--and turns toy pickup into a game" (from here)

Kid's ART

Under the bed storage container. All artwork can be saved there. When it gets full, we'll have to weed out what we don't want.

Take digital photos or scan the artwork before we toss it.

Can we cropp it to 12x12 and put in an art scrapbook. Many times art is more appealing when cropped.