Planning ahead is a brilliant way to be more organized Want to be more organized? Planning ahead and preventing the little annoyances of daily life can go a long way to making your life and home run more smoothly. Think about things that can slow…
06 Aug In General organizing 12 Comments
What Difference Does It Make, Which Bins I Choose? Shopping for storage products can be bewildering. You can find all kinds of plastic storage bins for sale – big, small, clear, and solid colors. Won’t any of them work well? Actually, no. There are important…
29 Mar In General organizing, Paper organizing, Usability Problem 18 Comments
Do you have a typical reach-in closet like this, with shelves and clothing rods attached to the wall? Fixed shelving like this can be frustrating. Without adjustable shelving, you can’t move the shelves and clothing rods around to fit your family’s specific needs. This closet…
17 Feb In Closet organizing, Elfa adjustable shelving, General organizing, Usability Problem 2 Comments
The Ins and Outs (and Tight Squeezes) of Closet Design: 5 Space Planning Tips Are you remodeling or building a closet or storage room? Want to make sure that space will be easy to access and use? There are right ways and wrong ways…
15 Sep In Closet organizing, General organizing 4 Comments
Do your kitchen cabinets need a “Caution” sign? Cookie sheets, baking pans, and serving trays can be a challenge to store and organize in your kitchen. If you lay them down on a shelf, other things get plopped down on top of them. If you…
09 May In Kitchen organizing No comment
Want to see a fun project that creatively solved a problem for storing small, thin clutch purses? This is the kind of DIY project that you could do over a weekend. Sparkly Dominoes! This client had a lovely collection of small beaded and…
08 May In Closet organizing 8 Comments
Labelmakers! One of my friends asked for label maker recommendations, which inspired me to talk about mine. My hardworking, much beloved, and beat-up labelmaker is a Brother P-Touch. If you’re wondering about the plastic case that it fits in so perfectly, that is called a…
05 May In Paper organizing 12 Comments
Papers in piles! It happens. When Confusion and Lack Of Time get thrown together at a party with a cocktail or two, they will produce little baby paper piles all over the place. Do you have piles of paper and no time to manage…
01 Jan In Paper organizing 1 Comment
I Hereby Grant You Permission Need more permission to get rid of clothes that you no longer wear, but that you paid good money for? I’m going to say something that you might not believe right away. Get your coffee, sit down right here, and…
05 Aug In Closet organizing 6 Comments
I’ll tell you a secret. When the holidays approach, and the new “stocking stuffer” gifts appear in the stores, I sometimes buy a few for myself. In my defense, I have been a very good girl this year. But besides that, I also want…
08 Nov In General organizing 2 Comments
Do you use your herbs and spices on a regular basis? Or are they sitting forlornly in a cabinet or drawer somewhere? Spices are often the abandoned toys of the kitchen, overlooked and forgotten. Their flavor and potency doesn’t last long, which is why it’s…
21 May In Kitchen organizing No comment
Is your garage organized? Or would you like it to be? Do you want to be able to park your car in there? Would it make your life easier if you could find your tools, and fetch the ice chest, and easily access the holiday…
11 May In Garage organizing No comment
Did you know that if your closet has those built-in wooden shelves and cubbies, that those built-ins don’t have to be permanent? If you have shelves that are too far apart, and lots of wasted space between them, your closet can be transformed like this…
09 May In Closet organizing No comment
Do you need help with organizing your craft supplies? Are your sewing materials or embroidery supplies or hobby tools all jumbled together in bins or bags? Do you wish that everything was easy to find, and easy to access, in an organized manner? Do you…
09 May In General organizing No comment
