15 Minute Cleanup Check Lists

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
Telling a child to clean a room is overwhelming. These check lists are broken down into easy doable one to three minute chores. Assign a child a room or a few steps.
Explain to your children if you complete the list every day each can be [...]

Meal Planning from Fridge to IPod or IPhone

Menu planning is something we intend to do when we get around to it or “when I’m get organized.” But this is backward thinking, menu planning should be your first step to getting organized.
A lack of meal planning means wasted money, extra trips to the store, frustration and cooking boredom.
We are all faced with meals [...]

How to Save Hours Each Week!

Meal Planning Made Simple

Menu planning is something we intend to do when we get around to it or “when I’m get organized.” But this is backward thinking, menu planning should be your first step to getting organized.
A lack of meal planning means wasted money, extra trips to the store, frustration and cooking boredom. [...]

Reclaim Your Garage

Garages are often a dumping place for all of our dirty, messy, unused, unneeded stuff. After all, who wants that stuff in the house! What’s wrong with this picture? just because you can’t see it – why keep dirty, messy, unused, unneeded stuff in the first place? Instead, think of your garage as part of your home, part of your life, and a space to utilize in a way that enhances your lifestyle!

Notebook Planner: Your One-Stop Information Center

Are you organized? Do you have a chore check list? Can you find your dog’s shot record quick? Have a list of birthdays somewhere?

What about you homeschool, is it organized? Do you know  what work to assign today or what they did yesterday?
What if you could experience less stress, frustration and choas while gaining time [...]

7 Tricks to Organizing Your Pantry

It doesn’t require the skills of a gourmet chef to appreciate the fact that a well-organized pantry closet has more than a token import on the quantum of work in the kitchen. With all necessary ingredients within one’s reach, cooking is a snap. You can find things, sort them out and even stock them within [...]

Declutter Life With These 5 Clutter Busting Strategies

It is incredibly frustrating to cope with clutter on a day to day basis. It slows you down, it fouls your mood and it is sapping you of energy that would be better used on creating the life of your dreams. To declutter life is to de-stress your life. If you are ready to make [...]

Organizing Tips – Gotta Love Those Label Makers!

You, like most people, probably have boxes filled with things that you probably didn’t even realize were still in your possession! Using a label maker will allow you to quickly identify the contents of those mysterious boxes and containers.
There are so many handy uses for these gadgets. Labeling storage containers in a garage or storage [...]

Think Outside the Cardboard Box

Tackle clutter with canvas collapsible containers. You can find them at Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, Target, Stacks and Stacks , Linens and Things, the Container Store, and several places online. They work for me, I use them in almost every room:

They come in pretty colors too like this Simply Shabby Chic™ [...]

Need Help Getting Organized? Call the Kids!

Organizing Plastic Containers and Lids
After countless times of reorganizing my plastic containers, I had a light bulb moment. My 7 and 8 year-old boys were playing with their Legos. If they can can build fancy jets and boats with Legos, why can’t they can sort the plastic bowls and lids?
I put them to work. [...]

Tackling the Dreaded Sock Basket

You thought just because I had heart surgery Saturday I wouldn’t be here today? How could I miss a Tackle it Tuesday?
The laundry was piled high before I went to the hospital and patiently awaiting me when I got home. I was glad I finally had the energy to get it done and out [...]

Decluttering: Letting Go of the Baby Clothes

I have to come clean–I am a pack rat. It hasn’t been a negative issue because I am an organized pack rat and I had enough room to store a lot of stuff.
Our home in VA had a full basement with wall to wall book shelves. Not pictured is a storage area with even [...]

Tackling Bedside Cord Clutter

I had two problems I needed to tackle in my bedroom. I think I found terrific solutions to both. 1. Cord clutter from the computer bedside area. Where do you stash the cords without a desk? 2. No nightstand. We recently moved to TN and I left behind my bedroom furniture assuming we’d get new furniture, but our VA home didn’t sell so new furniture is not in the near future. This left my bedside floor a jumble of books, magazines, etc.

Shoe Storage in the Mudroom

“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
I’ve been working on our laundry/mud room. We live on a farm and get a lot of use from our mud room. Shoes were thrown in baskets and boots stacked by the door, which is a recipe for lots of [...]

Get Rid of Cord Clutter With a Recharging Station

I have had this Charging Valet for Handheld Electronic Devices on my wish list forever. We have 3 cell phones, MP3 players, digital camera, 2 PSP games, and other things that need recharging that were on my kitchen counter in a tangled mess. There was no where else in the house to put them where [...]

Organize Your Home in 15 Minutes!

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you get your home organized? 15 minutes at a time. Linda Queen author of The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter suggest organizing in 15 minute segments.
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Only 15 Minutes?
15 minutes is all it takes to really get results. If you like, you can [...]