Spring Cleaning Checklist
April 16, 2010
Is the thought of spring cleaning overwhelming to you? Don’t know where to start? StacksAndStacks.com has a great Spring Cleaning Checklist to get you started. There’s even a list of cosmetics and their expiration dates to help you de-clutter and clean you bathroom!
What IS a Disorganized Person to Do?
April 14, 2010
I’ve been thumbing through a book called “What’s a Disorganized Person to Do?” (317 ideas, tips, projects, and lists to unclutter your home and streamline your life) by Stacey Platt. What a great book!
Its a handy-sized, go-to manual for organizing anything. It starts off with some basic principles and ideas about organizing, and then sets off room by room though the house, giving helpful tips, tricks and simple projects to organize everything! You can easily flip to the color coded section corresponding to the area of your home (or life) you’re working on and find just what you need. It even comes with two pages of project stickers in the back to help you organize what you’re working on!
Stacey’s entire premise for this book is based on “lessons from the silverware drawer”; Continue Reading
Top 10 Tips on Managing and Organizing My Family Life
April 13, 2010
By far, my family is my crowning accomplishment in life. But of course, this is easier said now that my children are leaving home than when they were in diapers. When you’re up to your elbows in spilled juice and spit-up, it’s a little hard to see your efforts as anything successful. Through years of trial and error as a busy mom of three, I did manage to pick up a few helpful tips to keep the chaos at bay and make all our live a bit simpler. Here are my top 10 tips I’ve gleaned over the years for organizing our family’s busy lives:
1: Check the weather forecast each night and plan my kid’s (and my) clothes for the next day accordingly.
2: Set out a choice of two weather appropriate outfits for each child. This gives them a say in what they wear while still giving you ultimate control over it. Continue Reading