Contest Time Again!

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For this contest, we would love to hear from you! We may be in the top 10, but there is always room to improve. What issues would you like to see addressed on our blog? A new organizing topic you’d like to know more about? Interviews? Q & A’s? Polls?

Leave us a comment with your suggestion for what you’d like to see here and we will pick a random five lucky people to win one of these great prizes: Continue Reading

Get Back to Basics with Menu Planning

calendarWhen things start going a little bit crazy, the first thing I do is go back to basics.

Like when I feel overwhelmed with the business, I drag out one of my master to-do lists and start writing down everything.

In the same way, when if feels like things are too busy in my life at home, I get back to basics with a few things. I:

  1. write EVERYTHING down on our kitchen calendar
  2. clean my kitchen (I like a clean and uncluttered working space so this helps me feel centred; a friend of mine likes doing laundry – she is obviously crazy :)!!!) Continue Reading

Ellen’s Penicillin Method of De-Cluttering

mold-in-petrie-dishThis post came from Declutter 101: Strategies To Cut Clutter | Organized Home. This was such a great analogy, I just had to share

Often, decluttering efforts chase their tails in an endless loop. The home manager declutters the small table in the hallway and moves on. By the following week, a whole new species of clutter has returned to the cleared area. Continue Reading