How to Organize Ball Caps
July 22, 2011
Ahh, you have to love summer…popsicles, sprinklers, and baseball. Summertime just wouldn’t be the same without a trip to the ballpark. I know for my family and many others with school-aged kids, we spend countless hours each summer at ballparks watching our children play Little League. With each new team comes another new ball cap. Most people have numerous ball caps floating around their house, but they can never seem to find one when they need one. How can you keep your ball caps organized?
- Sort – First, gather them all together in one place and sort through them. Get rid of the ones that you don’t like or won’t use.
- Organize – My favorite way to organize ball caps is to use an over the door cap rack. It keeps caps off the floor and easy to find. My favorite feature of this organizer is that it uses space that otherwise would go unused.
- Maintain – To keep your baseball hats in tip top shape, wash them frequently. The best method for keeping them clean and maintaining their shape is to purchase a cap washer. They are very inexpensive and help to hold the cap’s shape during washing. Put your cap in the cap washer, and place the cap washer in the top rack of your dishwasher. Run it through a normal cycle and you will be amazed at find it looking just like new.
– Donna Lindley, Certified Professional Organizer and owner of Rochester Hills, MI-based Organize Your World, Inc.
A Legacy of “Stuff” (Part 2)
July 14, 2011
This week we continue with the difficult subject of being overwhelmed with the “stuff” left behind by a loved one who has passed away.
(You can read Part 1 here.)
The struggle is that we are trying to find practical ways to survive having someone’s lifetime-of-stuff joining our own lifetime-of-stuff, while also trying to survive all the emotions that come with this deep painful loss.
Based on the huge number of emails I received after Part 1, last weeks post resonated with many of you. One woman told the story of how for seven years, all of her parents’ belongings were stacked to the ceiling in her basement – furniture, clothes, stuff. So much so that they could not even make a path through it all. Continue Reading
A Legacy of “Stuff” (Part 1)
July 7, 2011
Emails arrive so often describing how — in addition to all the heart-rending emotions of a death — there is the overwhelmed experience of not knowing what to do about all the “stuff” of a beloved person who has passed away.
One woman wrote that her usually uncluttered home is filled with all the items she cleared out from her mother’s house after her mom died. She said she often bursts into tears seeing paths through this new clutter in her house yet she doesn’t know what to do with any of it. She was clear that she did not want or need the stuff but she knew these were things her mother loved Continue Reading