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Organizing Your Books at Home

Having a well-organized library isn’t that hard to do once you have some easy strategies that won’t take a lot of expert skills to implement. Get your home library under control and enjoy your books. First, you need someplace for the books, such as bookcases. I’ll assume that this is already the case in your home, but if not, go get some! You can search for your dream books cases, or just pick up a couple at the Goodwill and paint or cover the shelves with pretty contact paper. The choice is yours. Next, let us get those bookcases under … Continue reading →

Five Days to an Organized Pantry: Day 1

Do you want to have a more organized pantry? Stick with me. Let us take just five days to completely overhaul the pantry and develop an easy system of rules that will keep it that way. With an organized (and well-stocked pantry), you’ll never have to worry about missing an ingredient. Just open your pantry and find what you need to make your meal. Day 1: Know What You Use If your pantry is like mine used to be, there are probably several things in there that haven’t seen the light of day in months or maybe even years. At … Continue reading →

Three Hidden Benefits of an Organized Home

If you need more motivation to stay organized and put in some extra effort to have an organized home, just review the following. There are at least three hidden benefits to having an organized home. More Time with Friends and Family When your home is organized it takes less maintenance not more, believe it or not. A home where everything has its place and quick cleaning routines are established leaves plenty of extra time that might otherwise be spent looking for items or doing frantic marathon cleaning sessions. Also, organized homes will have less clutter to deal with. Fewer possessions … Continue reading →

Where to Sell Your Stuff

You’ve gone through the house and decluttered the lot. You are living more simply and more organized, and you finally have space to breath. Or maybe you just want to clear out some things that have been taking over your home. Whatever the reason you have taken the step to clear the clutter, you can profit beyond having a neater place to live. Sell your excess stuff and get the cash. There are many places where you can sell your stuff and make some money. It all depends on what you have, how much time you are willing to spend … Continue reading →

Repurposing Kids’ Art

If you have kids, then chances are that you also have a seemingly infinite number of craft projects and art work around your home. Take all of those creative canvases and put them to good use by repurposing them into useful and pretty items that you can use around your home or bless others through gifting. It is hard to get rid of the artwork that your kids complete. You feel as though you may be discarding something precious. By finding ways to use kids’ artwork, you eliminate that guilt plus get some pretty nice things as a result. Try … Continue reading →

Helping Your Kids Keep Their Books Under Control

Children’s books are the one thing that I have a hard time saying no to when the kids ask. While we make liberal use of our library, children’s books still seem to find their way into our home, through yard sales, library sales, school book sales and hand me downs. With three kids at different reading levels, there isn’t a lot of overlap, so each child needs his or her own set of books that they can read and re-read. Let us just say that I have a lot of experience organizing children’s books and keeping the books under control. … Continue reading →

How to Trim the Toys

For me, toys are one of the hardest things for me to deal with in my quest for a well-organized home. We seems to have a lot of toys for the kids, and they tend to get more and more of them. Then of course, they are hard for me to get rid of. The kids seem to want to keep all of them all of the time, even the ones that they don’t play with. Then of course, I have a hard time getting rid of toys, too, since I remember the fun times that we had with them. … Continue reading →

Don’t Just Pile It, Organize It!

My daughter moved into her new place over the weekend and as much as I’m going to miss her I’m not going to miss the mess in her room! Now that I have this big old house all to myself it’s time to do some reorganizing and redecorating. I helped with the move, Hailey and I actually took most of the boxes over on Wednesday and then the furniture got moved on Saturday. Today before the Super Bowl I went over to help them get the rest of the boxes unpacked and organize the apartment. I’m an organizational freak. I … Continue reading →