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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I got to preach the Gospel of Organization on morning TV this last Friday! I was asked to present 5-6 tips for saving time for our local ABC affiliate KATU’s morning talk show called AM Northwest. Click on the image above or on this link to watch the video. It’s about 5 minutes long, and [...]
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Sometimes our disorganization isn’t caused by a lack of motivation or organizing know-how — it’s caused by a lack of time. Some of us may be looking around at huge piles in our house and wondering when we are ever going to have free a afternoon to tackle them, especially if we have children underfoot. [...]
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How often have you hit the January sales at places like the Container Store and bought a bunch of products, determined that THIS time you would get and stay organized? How many times have you promised yourself you would get your home organized once and for all, only to find the clutter has creeped back [...]
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I’m drooling over this chalkboard wall calendar from MarthaStewart.com. It’s a 6-week calendar painted on a blank wall in a home office with chalkboard paint. Family members write their appointments on the wall with chalk. When 6 weeks is up, the wall gets wiped clean and new dates and appointments are written in. I’m in [...]
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You probably already know how unrealistic it is to diet down to a runway model-size 0 and achieve that “perfect” figure. Similarly with organizing, none of us is ever going to be able to achieve and maintain a perfectly organized home. Don’t let those glossy home magazines try to convince you otherwise. Instead, the goal [...]
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This ingenious to-do list/calendar is the brain child of Kristy at Next To Heaven. (See her entire post about it here.) She simply framed scrapbooking paper in eight frames and writes the week’s activities directly on the glass with a dry erase marker. Seems like you could also write the meals for the week on [...]
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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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On Friday, I wrote about tasks you can do in less than a minute to make your living room, kitchen and bedroom look more organized. Of course, these tasks will not get your room completely organized. But sometimes you just don’t have 6 hours available to sort through an entire room, and you just want [...]
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Let’s face it: Some aspects of getting your home organized can take hours, if not days. Sorting through all of your belongings in your basement or garage might take an entire weekend. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some things you could do NOW to make your home look more organized? There are some [...]
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