My son believes that all of his stuffed animals are alive and secretly play at night when he is at sleep or during the day while he is at school. I chalk it all up to one too many screenings of Toy Story. The downside of this is that we are not allowed to get [...]
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Don’t start organizing without making a plan for your space first. Take the time to sit down and write out a list of all the functions the room has to serve. Otherwise, how will you know what should stay or go? Don’t expect to get your entire room organized in a day. Can you say [...]
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Today’s topic is neither sexy nor glamorous (but you know that the rest of organizing is!), yet it is something that I think most of us struggle with in our homes: our tangled mess of wires and cords hanging behind our appliances. How best to organize them? Here is a round-up of some great ideas [...]
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When it comes to keeping your home organized and getting all your family members to put things back where they belong, labels are essential. Labels communicate to everyone “hey, this is where this thing belongs!” and keep us from having to rely on our own puny brains to remember those homes. They eliminate your child’s [...]
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I want to invite all of you local readers to come to the Get Organized Conference this Saturday, January 28 to hear me speak about organizing children’s spaces. I will explain step-by-step how to organize a children’s space, and I will give you my recommendations for storage products that work well in these spaces. I [...]
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Yes, people, THAT is how you file! Divide your files into six categories (eg. finances, health, home, personal, education, kids), assign each category a color and keep those colors lumped together in the drawer so you can instantly find what you are looking for. You will feel so proud of yourself every time you open [...]
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Storing Tupperwear and Gladware containers in just one drawer — and finding the matching lid — universally enrages us all. Place an old CD holder sideways in the drawer to make finding the matching lid infinitely easier. Find old CD holders for pennies at Goodwill. Then group your Tupperwear containers so all of the square [...]
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It’s amazing what a difference a frame makes in a small corner of your house. Here is the mirror in my reading nook before: And here is the mirror after installing a frame using Moen’s Mirrorscapes 1000 kit. I think it makes the reading nook look much more classy: To get a kit of your [...]
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With all of the frenzy of activity occurring now until the end of the year, it’s easy to let your home slide into what I call Home Orderliness Hiatus Over HOlidays (HO-HO-HO for short). HO-HO-HO often means people get so busy they stop taking the time to do a little bit of clean-up each day. [...]
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Do you have a junk drawer in your house? How about a messy drawer? My very unscientific research (which consists of me nosing around in other people’s homes) concludes that most of us do. Here’s a cool new product for organizing your drawer that can also work as a bulletin board or an art board [...]
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