Wordless Wednesday: An Easy Routine to Refresh your Living Room

Schools out and your kids are probably trailing germs, toys and other unnecessary clutter into your family room. To solve the summer living room blues, check out these easy steps. Living rooms seem to breed messes, so get into the mood and fluff up the sofa pillows, fold the blankets and you'll be half-way to a tidy space. Get your kids involved! Have each child remove their items from the room, so you can worry about the rest. Keep a few cleaning essentials in a basket, close at hand. Start by disinfecting the hard surfaces, dust those keepsakes, remove lint and pet hair from your furniture, spray some fabric/air freshener and Voila! You'll have a refreshed living room everyone can enjoy (even Mom and Dad)!

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Wordless Wednesday: Everything in it's place

Tired of your family members asking you where things are? The solution: Putting your family's "general information" into a easy-to-use binder. Keeping this wealth of information accessible (in your home office or kitchen) makes it easy for the whole family to access telephone numbers, birthdays, take-out menus, schedules and more.

Materials: 1" Binder, Avery sheet protectors and a little creativity :)

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Wordless Wednesday: Tactfully Organized

 Who said miscellaneous paper was the only thing you could tack to a cork-board? It can also be used to store your tangled necklaces and misplaced jewelry pieces. Re-purpose an abandoned cork-board, purchase your favorite tacks and attach your keepsakes. It's easy, functional and looks great on any closet wall!

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Wordless Wednesday: A new use for old Spice Jars

To help organize my Husband's Garage recently we took an old spice rack and disassembled it.  We used hooks to hang the removed rack portion and the bottles now hand on his peg board and soon will hold various sizes of small screws, nails, etc... 

This idea could also be used in a craft room with pegboard on the wall and to store beads, glitter, small pieces, etc... 

Wordless Wednesday: Routine Checklists

Here is a quick idea you can borrow from something I do with my kids to keep me from repeating myself over and over and over... (you get the idea.)

I printed these on the computer (Words for my readers and pictures for my youngest)  I slipped them into plastic sheet protectors and hung them with magnets on the fridge.  They use the magnetic dry erase marker to mark off their progress each morning.

Then we flip the list over in the Evening and repeat the same process...

Spend a few moments giving this system a try for your family this week to see if you feel less like a broken record.  (All while you are teaching them about time management and responsibility).

Wordless Wednesday: Speed Bump Ahead

The clutter in our lives often acts like a speed bump... slowing us down and preventing us from getting us to where we want to be. Are you ready to start conquering your speed bumps today???

Wordless Wednesday: I love this Idea

I recently saw this wonderful storage idea!!!!!  I love it for two reasons:

1. It is a cheap, inexpensive way to organize your home.

2.  I am all about Reusing items for a new purpose to help you get more organized.

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Wordless Wednesday: Goodbye clutter, Hello Garage

                     Homeless Items made this Garage Unusable...

Before

Giving every item a home returned this garage to a usuable space in time for Spring.

After

Wordless Wednesday: Decluttering the Organizer

I thought you all would enjoy seeing that I too took advantage of National Clutter Awareness Week.  I had a little "Organizer, Organize Thyself." session and purged out 13 empty three ring binders, 2 empty accordian files, 6 blank presentation binders, 3 empty plastic tubs, 52 old magazines, and 15 outdated files from my filing cabinet.

My clutter my look a little different than yours... but it was clutter nonetheless and I feel better having taken it out of my office this week. 

Wordless Wednesday: Unique Way to Store Sheets

My Son is Allergic to Dust Mites, so to protect the clean sheets and pillow cases in our home I store them in Large and Extra Large Ziploc bags and seperate them out by bedroom.

There is a bag for each of my son's sheets, my daughter's sheets, and our master bed.  The smaller bag is for pillow cases.

I have looped the handles through a hanger so that I can easily hang them in the linen closet for easy access.

Wordless Wednesday

Over the Door Shoe organizers are not just for Shoes!

This one hangs in my laundry room and stores the dog medicine and leash. Extra Batteries, hot glue gun and glue sticks, Matches and Lighters, Cleaning Sprays, Dog Shampoos, Batteries Chargers, Screwdrivers and tools, Dog hair remover mitt, Fish Aquarium Misc., measuring tape, chargers and cords grouped by category, My dust pan, and a place for kids to set toys that need batteries put in them.

Want other ideas of places to use a Over the door Shoe Organizer in your home?  Check out this old post.