I’m a Tad Forgetful I put items away for “safekeeping,” then cannot for the life of me find the items. I have walked around my home searching high and low for my sunglasses only to find that my sunglasses are perched…
Category: organization
TV: From My Strange Addiction to Extreme Cheapskates
Felt blah this morning and watched a DVR’d Scandal, then moved on to My Strange Addiction with the lady with the 5-inch toe nails, the 15-inch finger nails, and the two body guards to keep pedestrians from stepping on her…
ORGANIZATION: A Clean Kid’s Bedroom Is a Myth, Right?!
4/3/2014: I would never publicly shame any of my children by posting photos to social media. I have threatened to remove all items from their rooms except for bed and bedding. I have never followed through on these threats, except…
ORGANIZATION: Musings on the Home: Decluttering and Organizing Your Home
I have a Black Belt in bolting up from whatever chair I am sitting in and racing about madly cleaning or tidying when I see the headlights of my husband’s car coming up the driveway. Just takes practice. In fairness,…
The Finder of Lost Stuff
One of our family mottos is nothing is every lost…missing permanently…but never lost forever. I AM the finder of lost stuff. I usually find whatever it is that is missing in a place where someone (usually me) stashed it for…
Oh, The Messes I Have Seen
I will never forget how messy the early years were. I had no idea… the number of diapers I would change…3 kids…3.5 years each in diapers…pullups at night for a bit… the mouths I would wipe… the clothing I would…
10 Tips for a Successful Yard Sale
Another in my series of “giving new life in to old posts” saved in draft… Today’s post…tips for a successful yard sale. Over a period of months, start the process of sorting items to be sold at your yard sale.…
Keeping Track of Everything
Disclosure: The views expressed in this post are my own. Affiliate links are included in this post. Keeping Track Calendars. To do lists. Post it notes. The dates on my family calendar are populated to my work calendar. Cozi is…
5 Tips for Purging and Decluttering Your Home #organization #home
1. Examine Your Home My home is not small by any means. There are four bedrooms; a very large family room; a basement with laundry room, office, and storage room; and a two-car garage. When I built my home 20 years ago, all the…
Trimming the Fat in 2015 #payoffmindset #whatsyourpayoff #Pmedia #ad
Disclosure: This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Payoff, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #payoffmindset #whatsyourpayoff https://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV Debt free? Seems like a pipe dream, doesn’t it? With one kid in…
