A shared kids’ room can be challenging to get organized. The key is to divide and conquer. It is best to work with each child separately. Any jointly owned possessions can be dealt with after the majority of the sorting and editing is done. Note the other child cannot be in the room! Their comments, …
Quick Initial Sort: Go through your kid’s school papers as soon as they get home. While they’re eating a snack, I look through my kid’s papers and ask if they want to keep any of them. Anything they don’t want goes right in the recycled bin. Anything they want to keep must be put in …
Donating to Santa can be a fun way to do a pre-Christmas purge. Before Christmas presents invade your house, edit what you currently have. Take some time with your kids and clear out some of the old toys that they don’t play with anymore. Give a bag of donations to “Santa” so he can take …
When you’re organizing a playroom you want to consider how your kids play. What are they interested in? How well do they clean up? Are they currently drawn to a certain type of toy? Do they combine lots of different kinds of toys when they play? Or do they stick to one category of toy …
Kids end up accumulating so many toys. And every so often it’s good to go through and edit out the outside toys that are being played with from the ones that aren’t. Especially with Christmas right around the corner. First, we gathered all the toys on the back porch and sorted them into categories. We …
***Nerd Alert*** For my birthday I asked my teenage daughter if I could organize her clothes with her for my birthday present. I know it sounds like exactly the opposite thing most people would want to do on their birthday, but I’m not most people, so I loved it! Organizing Her Clothes I’ve been wanting …
I was so excited to organize this homeschool cupboard with a client recently that I totally forgot to take a Before picture. *Sigh* I get so excited I keep forgetting that part. I got a partial ‘before’ shot. Just imagine that the lower two shelves looked like this top shelf. We took everything out and …
Oh, shoes…you are the worst. No, not really but as a parent, kid’s shoes, and clothes for that matter, are such a pain. Making sure you have both of them and they still fit is such a struggle with small children. Can anyone else relate? (Sorry for the picture quality. I had trouble stitching the …
Some kids love drawing and others don’t. Some kids feel like every scribble on a piece of paper is a masterpiece and others don’t care. So what do you do with all your kid’s art and “precious” drawings? What I do with my kid’s art: 1. I acknowledge their work and celebrate their accomplishment. 2. …
I organized with my 15 year old just after Christmas. She had a ton of stuff. This picture is less than a third of it. There wasn’t room to get it all out at one time. I’ve organized things with her and taught her her whole life, so this was not new to her, she …