Tips and Tricks to organizing your home
Organize for ease How can you keep up with each child’s school information so that it is neat, organized, and easy to find? Folders Use folders with pockets (you don’t need the 3-prong type) to hold handbooks, school maps, newsletters, PTA memos, order forms, etc. Pick a different color folder per child. Teacher and class [...]
Do you know what color and type of paint was used in your house? The next time you paint a room, do the following to make sure you remember what paint was used. Mark the paint can I’m an obsessive do-it-yourself painter when it comes to the inside of the house. All the paint cans [...]
Door Hanger Great for kids’ rooms. Use it to store handheld electronics, shoes, brushes, scarfs, junky toys, and whatever else you can get off the floor and dresser. $8.00 at Walmart Tie holder Not only is this great for neatly hanging ties in the closet, use it store belts, too. $9.00 at Walmart Coupon Organizer [...]
Is there anything more frustrating than losing your keys? I religiously place my keys in the same spot when I walk in the door. I can’t remember the last time I lost them. I took great pride in my flawless record. That is until the day the unimaginable happened…I misplaced them. My kids found this [...]
Scare me into working out please Some days I think it would take a huge, burly personal trainer banging on my door to intimidate me into working out. It seems if I miss a day, I tend to find an excuse to miss the next day. Then two weeks later I realize I have excused [...]
Got friends or family coming to visit? Don’t stress With a little planning you and your home will be ready without much disruption to your regular schedule. Spread out your preparations over a 5-day period. The 5-day plan 4-5 days before Get some big stuff out of the way that doesn’t have to be done [...]
Organize with a RSS reader High tech moms and dads use RSS readers to organize and manage tips from the wonderful assortment of blogs and websites available today. Not high-tech yet? Well I’m about to change that. Then you can brag to your kids about how technically savvy you are. New to RSS? Give it [...]
Pantry cleaning It’s a DEFCOM 1 red alert in my house! Do you hear the sirens? A parental visit is on the horizon, and I have to get my house clean. Mom clean is not the same as my kid’s friend is coming over clean, you know. I guess that is what inspired the cleaning [...]
Clutter leads to more clutter. It can multiply at an alarming rate. Would you think twice about tossing more junk onto this desk? Absolutely not, because once an area is cluttered, you can easily rationalize it with the mentality of “It’s already messy, so what’s one more thing?” The pile of paper is transformed into [...]
Sometimes you have to laugh so you don’t cry. I stood in the doorway in disbelief at the mess before me. Half an hour earlier, I had left her happily playing “kitchen” in her room so that I could cook dinner. With my mouth hanging open in both shock and terror, I took it all [...]
