Want things to work like clockwork in the mornings? Things always seem to come up wrong? Unpredictable things put a snag in your morning? What I’ve come up with seems to help my mornings flow so much better if I do them each day. Begin by Having a Good Evening Routine The morning routine…
Lately I’ve been working with several teens and it is so much easier for me to work with them on their spaces than their parents. Emotional Ties Teens might not have the emotional connection with the things that were given to them by grandparents, other relatives, or need to be reminded that they just got…
My favorite set-up is to put a folding table in my room, all Christmas wrap in a bin, tape, a scissors, festive paper for tags, and my notebook (where I write down what I’m giving to each person so I’m not wondering after they are wrapped). My favorite boxes are the ones with the picture…
What do I do with ALL the Kid’s Papers? I get asked a lot what I do with my children’s art and school papers since I’m an organizer and a former elementary school teacher. When my kids bring home their work, I go through it that night and pull out any worksheets they’ve struggled on…
One thing that has discouraged my clients when they have tried to get organized in the past, is that they can’t maintain the organization. They say that their family doesn’t keep up with it (which I discussed in part 2). After we incorporate some rules that help prevent clutter (covered in part 1), we really…
In part 2 of this article about having the “perfect” organizational system I’ll discuss getting your family on board. So many times I hear from clients that they can get a great system going in their houses, but then their family messes it all up. Here’s some tips and tricks to get them to help….
Sometimes it is a system that bogs us down and I wanted to take a bit to go over the laundry system that works the best for my family and hopefully you can tweak your system to be easier on you and your family with some different ideas. I usually tell my kids and husband…
When I go on a road trip with my family I pack much differently than I do when I fly. Use those bins I love to pack my things into bins so they fit nicely in the car and are easy to move into the hotel, Airbnb, or relative’s house. I don’t like making 23…
Saving time is one of my favorite things since its one thing we can’t ever get back. If we invest a few extra minutes here or there to do things right the first time, we earn back that time tenfold in things we enjoy. If we just think about things in our daily life, we…
If we teach our kids to organize their things, later on we won’t have such a hard job keeping their things picked up. This is like anything else that we teach our kids: we do for, we do with, and then they do. First we are going to show them good examples of how we…