Do you store your plates in an upper cabinet? What happens when you need to get a whole stack of them out? Do you attempt to grab a bunch of them and hope you don’t drop them on the way down to the counter, or do you take them out two by two? And what …
Day 15: Do You Know This Insanely Easy Storage Rule? Read More »
How many recipe books do you own? Go to the cabinet and count them. Second question: how many of those recipe books do you actually USE?? Be honest! Chances are you own at least several recipe books that you haven’t even pulled from the shelf in years. Don’t ask me how I know, lol. The …
Day 14: The Sure Way to Reclaim a Simplified Life Read More »
My pantry was driving me crazy. I couldn’t keep it neat and organized — and as a result, I couldn’t find stuff when I needed it. Every time I opened the door, things would fall out at me. And often, though I KNEW I had purchased a certain ingredient, I had to move many things …
Day 13: Sometimes It’s the Simple Hacks that Make the Most Sense Read More »
I am the queen of distractedness. I get on FB to message a certain person, and before I know it, 20 minutes has gone by, and I’ve completely forgotten why I got on there in the first place. It usually takes me actually getting up and going back to what I was doing before, in …
Day 12: How to Make the Most of Your Valuable Time Read More »
Raise your hand if you have a pile of clean but rapidly wrinkling laundry on either the sofa or your bed. Or maybe it’s a stack of mail on the counter, overflowing onto the stovetop. Or how about the teacup you left on the table by the chair you were sitting in while grading your …
Day 11: You’ll Conquer Clutter with this Killer Cure Read More »
Do you have a pile of mail on your counter? Or maybe on the table next to the sofa? Or the front seat of the car? Or maybe all three??? Mail organization is the bane of many households. It can benefit from today’s tip: Handle things once — or as little as possible. If you …
Day 10: Streamline Your Time with this Life Hack Read More »
Sticker shock when you go looking for supplies to organize your life is a real thing. Planners are EXPENSIVE. Sticky notes, labels, label-makers, even pens can set you back pretty far. And the bins and baskets to put everything in? Fuhgetaboutit. I discovered the cheapest and best bin for almost all of your organizing needs …
Day 9: The Most Awesome (and frugal) Organizing Bin in the World Read More »
You have a list of three things you need to get done today. Two of them sound like a lot of fun. The other one is to clean the kids’ bathroom. Lemme guess which one you’re gonna save for last, lol. If it’s the bathroom, you might be surprised to hear that you’re going about …
How long is your to-do list for today? If you’re like me, you cram it full in the hopes that you can get to all these things that really should get done. And then you get done about three. And then all the others are still staring at you for the next several days. And …
Day 7: The Most Important Strategy to Conquer Everyday Stress Read More »
When you forgot that today was the homeschool co-op field trip and that you had signed up to bring snacks for afterward. Equals trying to apply mascara while simultaneously screaming at everyone to get in the car NOW and arriving late cuz you had to stop at Walmart to pick up some Oreos. When you …
Day 6: The Best Way to Remember Everything You Need To Read More »
You need to use cumin in the recipe you are making for dinner. You can’t find it. You have been picking up all the spice bottles one at a time to look for it, and you have gone through all of them about three times. You KNOW you just bought some last week. Can you …
Day 5: End Organization Frustration with this Powerful Fix Read More »
I’m in a hurry to get to work, and I rush out after throwing back one last slurp of coffee as I head for the door. My taste buds are happy — but my lip gloss is not. Will I arrive at work looking like a washed out, middle-aged woman? (You know what I’m talking …
Day 4: The Genius Solution for Organizing Things You Use all the Time Read More »
You stumble into the kitchen, bleary-eyed. Coffee is a MUST, and STAT. You empty the pot of yesterday’s dregs by walking over to the sink to dump it out and then walking back to the pot, where you then commence preparations for a new one. First you walk to the pantry to get the coffee …
Day 3: How to Avoid Making More Work for Yourself Read More »
Do you ever feel like your whole day, every day, is spent putting out fires? And that you never get to the end of them? It’s like the Hydra — cut off one head, and five more grow back! Some days you wake up and hit the ground running, and you don’t stop until you …
Day 2: One Simple Organization Hack that is often the Most Overlooked Read More »
It seems like you are always running late and can’t find the car keys. The piles around the house are becoming large enough to be fire hazards. At the end of the day you wonder what you really accomplished. “Stop the world; I want to get off!” is your inner cry. I have experienced all …
Are you frazzled and frustrated? Are you feeling behind, not only with your homeschool but in life? I can help. Join me for 31 days, as we look at one practical and DOABLE organizing tip — for all of life, not just our homeschool — each and every day. This is NOT a “challenge,” y’all. …
31 Days of Practical Organizing Tips for a Homeschool Mom’s Life Read More »
Raise your hand if you like the idea of having a morning routine but cannot for the life of you make one work over the long haul. That has been me, and I have been SO frustrated!! But you CAN develop a morning routine that is sustainable, and I’m going to tell you how today. …
How to Determine Which Tasks Belong in YOUR Morning Routine Read More »
Have you ever set a morning routine and started doing it really well, only to have it fall by the wayside in a matter of just days or a couple of weeks? Been there, done that MANY times, lol. I think there’s a secret to a morning routine that is sustainable over the long haul, …
I thought I had this decluttering thing DOWN, y’all. I’ve read many books and blog posts on the subject; in fact, I’ve even written my own blog posts on the subject. I decluttered our entire fairly large house from top to bottom two years ago when we put it on the market. That Kon Mari …
Let’s face it: we can have the entire rest of our world fully streamlined and running smoothly, but if we don’t know how to organize our purse, life will still seem out of control. Am I right?? We use our purses ALL THE TIME. And it can seem as though every time we need something …
