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, …
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 …
I’m in the mood to do a Pre-Christmas Micro Declutter. Who’s with me? Now would be an excellent time to do a micro declutter before all the craziness of Christmas. Take 15 minutes and walk through your house to find three things from each room to donate or trash, depending on the condition of the …
Sometimes you have such a great way of organizing something, that you don’t stop to think about whether you actually need that thing you’ve organized. Please tell me I’m not alone. What have you organized that you now realize should have been donated instead? There have been many times when I’ve been trying to figure …
***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 …
Sometimes in order to fix a problem, we need to change the way we look at it. Instead of thinking, “My house has no storage” maybe say, “My house does have enough storage, I just need to find it.” No matter how much storage you do or don’t have. If you look at your problem …
If you have organized a place over and over again, but it keeps getting messy, then your problem is probably too much stuff. The same thing applies when you think you don’t have enough storage space in your home. You need to edit and declutter what you have in that space if you want to …
Often when I talk to people about organizing I hear some form of, “I need you to organize with (insert family member’s name).” Unfortunately, we can only change ourselves. Believe me, I wish I could change other people all the time, but that’s not how things work. Mindset: The amazing thing is that when we …
It’s so frustrating when you don’t have a functional pantry. When my client moved in things kind of got tossed into this pantry. This totally happens, but she wanted it to be more efficient and organized. She also had some boxes that still needed to be unpacked. So we emptied everything, including the organizing containers …
As the weather gets warmer and we transition to summer clothing make sure to evaluate your winter clothes before you pack them up. It’s easy to look at your clothes from a place of scarcity. “If I give this away then I won’t have enough clothes to wear.” But that’s your inner pack-rat speaking. Don’t …