May Organizational Goal: The Kitchen

photo credit May is here and I’m not so sure I am ready for this month’s organizational task.  But there is no backing out now!  🙂 This month we are tackling the busiest room in our house, the kitchen.  The grand central station of cooking, family...

February Organization Goal: Recipes

How do you organize your recipes?  I love my cookbooks but I have a lot of loose recipes from friends, magazines and the internet.  Several years ago, I was inspired by my cousin who organizes her recipes in binders by category.  It keeps everything neat and allows...

January Organization Goal: Files & Paperwork

Are you joining us for the 2012 Monthly Home Organization Plan?  If so, we are over half way through January!  How are you coming along with de-cluttering your files and paperwork? Here is what I have done so far: Eliminated all piles, boxes and baskets of paperwork...

Great Organizational Tool for Family Sanity

  Papers, Papers, Papers!  I am overwhelmed by papers!  They cover my desk (and I’ll just put it out there) and sometimes my office floor.  But this is one tool that helps me keep my sanity.   A couple years ago, my MOPS group made this for our monthly...

My New Clutter Strategy

I don’t know about you, but my house has way too much clutter.  I simply can’t keep up with it.  I’d like to say that it all belongs to my 2 & 4yr old, and really quite a bit is theirs (toys, books, seemingly millions of pieces to their toys)....