Hint: It'll help wrangle all those lids to your food storage containers.

No one needs to tell you that this year is different than any other, but spring cleaning is just around the corner and, well, it's going to be different. In a good way.

If you've already broken down and recycled all those Amazon boxes, cleared out your closet, and gotten rid of your kitchen tool duplicates, what's next? One of these seven things.

You don't have to choose between a house without paper piles and your children's prized creations.

It's not over the faucet, under the sink, or on some expensive drying rack.

Maybe you have an overflowing bin of years worth of multiple kids' artwork you don't know what to do with. Or maybe you're just starting to realize that you need a plan for what's pouring in. It's never too early or too late to put a good set-it and forget-it system for kids' papers into practice.

Even if not for posterity, recording the details of your life in this context has value for you, right now.

If you've got the urge to get some stuff out of the house, start with this list of items you can say goodbye to right now with no impunity.

Left undone, these simple chores become a much bigger mess and a much more annoying task to tackle.