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, …
What, in your pantry, can you donate to the food bank? With inflation and tough economic times, local food banks have been helping more people than they usually do. If you’ve been looking for something to motivate you to clean out your pantry, this might be the thing. Local food banks need donations and you …
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 …
When we have things on shelves or in cupboards the best thing you can do is bring them forward. Lining everything up at the front of your shelves, just like libraries and grocery stores do, will make your space prettier. Have you ever bought something only to come home and find that you already …
It’s easy to organize office supplies to create a functional drawer where everything has space and is accessible. This drawer needed a refresh. It’s normal for any space that is used by many people to become chaotic. Thankfully it doesn’t take much time to make it functional again. The biggest problem was that this drawer …
In this digital age where everyone has many devices of all kinds, there needs to be a good way to organize Chromebooks. We have 5 Chromebooks in our house that need to be charged each night. Three of those need to go to school each day with their cords. We have a surge protector and …
Now is a great time to clean out your fridge and freezer. With everyone trying to eat healthily, it’s a great time to start fresh. Things can get lost in the back or misplaced and forgotten about. Also, there are always more crumbs and spills than you thought. Cleaning out and organizing your fridge or …
This client’s pantry is tiny, ridiculously tiny. So they updated part of their garage to function as an overflow pantry. They took out the shelving unit that was there and built shelves. They did use some products like the rolling can holders for the cans they use the most often, but she didn’t need one …
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 …