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Monday 23 December, 2024
Decluttering Strategies: The Penicillin Method
There are numerous methods for decluttering your home. What is the best decluttering method? It is hard to say, but one strategy developed by an online decluttering expert named Ellen has become quite popular. It’s known as the Penicillin Method. It’s an odd name, but it comes from a metaphor for clutter. Imagine clutter as […]
Wednesday 18 December, 2024
Cute and Inexpensive Organizing Ideas
One of the biggest reasons that people tend to avoid getting organized in the home or office is a fear of racking up large expenses. This is understandable; if you have a lot that you need to organize, you could end up needing to purchase a lot of supplies. Thankfully there are a lot of […]
Monday 09 December, 2024
Create a Self-Watering Planter with a Couple Plastic Bins
In a recent article, I talked about how you can use clear plastic storage bins as miniature greenhouses for small potted plants and growing seedlings. This is a very cool idea for how you can incorporate plastic storage containers into your gardening efforts, but it is not the only exciting way of using plastic containers […]
Monday 02 December, 2024
Create a Household Organization Center
Do you have an area of your house that isn’t going to use? It could be anything—just a narrow wall in a mudroom, entry hall, or kitchen. All you need is a few feet of space. If you have that, you can set up a household organization center! A household organization center is a great […]
Monday 25 November, 2024
Common Home Organizing Mistakes – Part 3
When you spend a lot of time, energy, and money organizing but do not get the results you are hoping for, it probably means you are making organizing mistakes. The best home organizing ideas in the world will fall flat if you are continually compromising your efforts with poor organizational practices. In parts one and […]
Monday 18 November, 2024
Common Home Organizing Mistakes: Part 2
If you are someone who puts a lot of time and energy into getting organized, but still find yourself feeling disorganized, it could be that you are making common home organizing errors. In our first installment, I talked about the importance of choosing organizational schemes that make sense and offer convenience and logic, not just […]
Monday 11 November, 2024
Common Home Organizing Mistakes – Part 1
Do you put a lot of work into DIY home organization without getting the results you are looking for? Do you spend hours a week cleaning and moving stuff around, and still feel like you are living in the middle of a cluttered mess? It could be that you have been using a lot of […]
Monday 04 November, 2024
Benefits of Organizing Your Clothes
One of the main benefits of organizing your closet is to organize your clothes. But what are the advantages of doing that? You may think of an organized closet as simply a luxury, especially if you are pressed for time each day, but it can be well worth it to invest a little extra time […]
Monday 28 October, 2024
5 Tips for Making Organizing Fun
Cleaning house is something many people dread—but everybody looks forward to living in a clean, well-organized space. The chores won’t do themselves, however. We focus a lot on the practical aspects of cleaning and organizing here: how to organize your to-do lists, what household organization products you need to buy, and how to get family […]
Monday 21 October, 2024
5 Steps to Organizing Your Kitchen
The kitchen is one of the most difficult areas of the house to get organized, perhaps in part because so much of your kitchen is one form of storage or another. Between your pantry, your cabinets, and your drawers, there are a lot of different areas that you need to get in order. Here are […]
Monday 14 October, 2024
5 Outdoor Cleaning and Organization Projects for Fall
While the idea of working outside in the shed or garden may not be as appealing in autumn as it is in spring or summer, taking care of some last-minute outdoor projects before winter sets in is one of the best fall organizing tips. Here are a few fall organizing projects to take care of […]
Monday 07 October, 2024
5 Elements of Successful Visual Merchandising
Looking for visual merchandising display ideas for your retail sales floor? The power of your retail displays lies in your understanding of the elements of successful visual merchandising. To that end, it is a good idea to read up on visual merchandising tips before you shop for retail product displays for your store. Here are […]
Monday 30 September, 2024
4 Ways to Prioritize Your Organizational To-Do List
Before you can organize your home, you have to learn how to organize your time. Yes, even organizational tasks themselves need to be put in order before you can tackle them effectively! The last thing you want to do is spread yourself too thin between different projects. If you do that, you will never complete […]
Monday 23 September, 2024
4 Types of Paper Clutter – And What To Do About Them
Paper clutter is something we often turn a blind eye toward in our day-to-day lives. We get so used to seeing those toppling heaps of papers that we often don’t notice them at all until one of them collapses, making a mess all over the desk or the floor. But we wonder why it takes […]
Monday 16 September, 2024
5 Easy Ways to Motivate Yourself to Clean and Organize
It isn’t easy finding the energy to get things done around the house. And when you are already juggling lots of other tasks—taking the kids to soccer, making dinner for the family, running errands—it can be very hard to get motivated to clean and organize. But a clean and organized home is a much more […]
