Spring Cleaning is in full force at my house right now. I am always organizing, but there is something about spring that really makes me want to declutter every corner of the house. This week I was working on my magazines. I used to get really behind on my magazines, I mean months behind. But I did a few things to stop the cycle that I want to share… Continue Reading
How to Improve Productivity
As a former productivity analyst and manager, let me tell you that one of the biggest causes of inefficiency is interruptions. (As I wrote this first sentence the phone rang…no kidding!). Since people have asked me how to improve productivity, I am sharing a few suggestions that can help you be more productive with your time. How to be more productive? The first thing is to ensure that you have clearly… Continue Reading
Making Life A Little Easier with P&Geveryday #PGeveryday
Raise your hand if you want to save time and money and enjoy more moments. That’s pretty much everyone, right? Have you visited the P&Geveryday.com website yet? If you have not, you are in for a treat. The site has so many great ideas and suggestions to save you time and money and ways to entertain and manage your household. I want to share with you why I think you will want… Continue Reading
Spring Cleaning Tips Family Style
Maybe to most people cleaning and fun don’t naturally go together, but honestly, I believe that cleaning can be fun, or at least the outcome of it. A clean and organized home can be wonderfully freeing! So here are some spring cleaning tips to help get everyone involved. Several people have asked me for some tips on getting the family to help with the cleaning and organization process…. Continue Reading
Celebrating with 365 Days of Baking and More
How are you all doing? I know that this is a super busy time of year. I have been organizing my Christmas shopping excursions and am just about ready to send out holiday cards. Christmas came fast this year with Thanksgiving being so late. As you may have noticed, I have also been busy with my blog designer. Today I am celebrating with Lynne over at 365 Days of Baking… Continue Reading
Managing Your Craft Supplies
One of the best things about fall is that I love to craft. Something about the cooler weather and the holiday festivities just gets me in the mood to make more things. Over the years I have accumulated lots of craft supplies. I have been through periods of rubber stamping, jewelry making, scrapbooking, crocheting, ceramics, embossing and more. I used to spend as much time collecting supplies that I spent actually… Continue Reading
Mother’s Day Gifts – Organization Style
Mother’s Day is just about a week away, so today I am sharing some Mother’s day gift ideas that will help that special woman in your life stay organized. Here are some relatively inexpensive gift ideas that will help with organization. They make great Mothers day gifts for friends and family that want to be more organized. This post contains affiliate referral links that help keep this blog running at… Continue Reading
Ten Tools for Organization
Today I am sharing my favorite tools for organization. This post contains affiliate links. These are things I use in many ways to keep my home organized. There is a lot of need to be organized when managing your home and as you go on in life, the need increases as your family grows. These items help me keep all of the storage and record keeping information under control and… Continue Reading
Organizing Bill Paying
With each new year, while I do not make resolutions, I do examine my goals and that involves a look at our budget. It helps me to see where I stand with my goals and to visualize where we are financially, compared to the previous year. Now, budgeting is not nearly as fun as spending is, but it is more important if you want to save. Today, I am… Continue Reading
Organizing Holiday Cards
One of my favorite things this time of year is to receive all the holiday cards that come from friends and family. Every year, I like to save the most recent year’s photos as a reminder of those I do not see very often. Over the years, I have used different methods to store these photos so I thought I would share a few ideas on organizing holiday cards. 1)… Continue Reading
Organizing Food Spices
A few weeks ago I organized my kitchen spices in preparation for the cooking and baking I am going to be doing for the holidays. I wanted to share with you how I organized my spices in my kitchen. Organizing Food Spices The first thing I did was pull all of the spices together to see which ones were too old. Most spices last a couple of years, but… Continue Reading
Organizing for Health
Why Organizing for health? Let me explain. Today I want to share with you how I have set up a few desk supplies. Now I love to have everything in nice handy compartments on my desk, but I purposely do not have everything I need close by. Why, you ask? Well, while I want to have many things within arms-reach, I purposely keep some supplies across the room. I do… Continue Reading
Shopping for School Supplies
This weekend I was noticing that all the Back To School sales are in progress. Another reminder of how quickly the summer goes by! I have some tips on maximizing value while shopping for school supplies. Even though my kids now buy their own school supplies, I like to shop several things at these sales for organization at home: Binders – I love these, they are great for storing and… Continue Reading
Cleaning Up Mom’s Patio
If you have been following my blog, you know that my parents are up in years and are having trouble keeping things organized (read understatement). This weekend we cleaned up their patio area that had been neglected. To give you an idea of what we did, I have to share with you the before pictures: My parents met in the late 1930’s and had been children during the depression. At… Continue Reading