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First of all a big thanks goes to Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer for hosting this little (ha!) blogging giveaway carnival!
I love love love giveaways and I’m soooo excited about this one. I’m all about creating “organizing junkies” everywhere and this definitely has the potential to do just that. Are you ready? I’m giving away not one but SIX one year subscriptions to the new ORGANIZE magazine!!!!
How cool is that! Organize Magazine is the first magazine dedicated solely to helping people tackle their organization needs. Readers will learn how to get organized in all areas of their lives: Home, Work, Time and Leisure. I’m still waiting on my first issue to come in the mail and I can hardly wait!
I was originally only going to giveaway one subscription but when I told the nice people over at the magazine what I wanted to do they graciously offered to include 5 more subscriptions for 5 more lucky winners! I am so excited that I almost attempted to breakdance but that would have just be wrong on so many levels so instead I ran around my dining room table doing what could only be called the funky giraffe…not to be confused with the funky chicken of course!
However, there is a catch….you didn’t think I was going to make this easy for you did you? As you know I’ll be going on vacation next week for a month. I want to continue blogging yet because I’ll be sitting around being lazy, and you know relaxing, I’m thinking I might need some help in the blogging topic department. So today in order to be entered into this little giveaway of mine you need to leave a comment AND:
ASK THE FREAK!!
Go ahead ask me anything although chances are good that if you are asking me anything deep and profound I’ll just get all baffled and confused and draw a blank. I can however give you clear instructions on how to run around a table looking like a funky giraffe so please go ahead and ask me that! Or, of course, an organizing question is always good too :) All I ask is that you keep it clean and nice folks and no I’m not telling you how much I weigh!
Five lucky winners will be chosen at random from all the comments left. The last winner will be chosen by ME strictly based on whose question I liked the most and thought was the most creative….he he….hey it’s my giveaway, I want to have some fun too!! LOL
You don’t have to have a blog to enter but please do leave me your email address with your comment. One comment/question per person, duplicates will be deleted. I will close comments at 12:01 pm Friday afternoon. The winners will be announced sometime after that.
Remember please leave a comment and “Ask the Freak” a question to be eligible for this giveaway. Have fun!!
Giveaway only open to those living in Canada or the US.
464 Comments
OH I want a subscription SOOO badly (I am organizationally challenged)…PICK ME and here’s my question:
Freak, if you could be one organizational tool/device what would it be and why?
Okay, I don’t qualify BUT I want to ask you a question anyway - what did you do before you became a SAHM?
Organising queen and
Take charge blogs
I’m so excited! You know I have to win this so I can drool all over it.
What is your favorite room in the house to organize?
oooh! I would LOVE to get this magazine! Thanks for offering it!
Oh this would be so much fun! Here is my ” freak ” question!
How do I convince my kids that less is more? They have a hard time letting go of their ” stuff”. Change is hard for them.
Thanks for hosting!
Oh what a great prize!!!
I want to know if you will be able to curb those organizing juices while away on vacation…or will your hosts be left with a “brand new look” by the time you leave? Do you ever go to someone’s house and “just can’t help yourself”?
Would love to win. WE are in need of some organization around here with 2 little ones! Boys no less!
Ok, Miss Freak, here’s my question: How on earth does one keep their linens and towels in some kind of order? Every time someone (meaning people under the age of 13 who really could care less how the linen closet looks, not that there’s anything wrong with that!), removes a towel or bedding, it all starts to tip sideways, or forwardways (or some other ways) and ends up being a mess. Any ideas?
This would be an AWESOME thing to win for our tiny place!!
How do you keep your FRIDGE organized? How often do you have to go through it and toss stuff?
This is such a great giveaway…here is my question. I am needing a way to organize my kids papers from school along with papers to be filed. We don’t have tons of room so I was thinking of something could could sit on the filing cabinet? My husabnd would hate to put something in the wall.
Oh, pick me! Pick me!
When did your organizational tendencies first manifest? Were you always a very organized person, even as a child?
OH Please enter me!! I have so many questions, I’m not sure I can pick just one.
What is the hardest room in your house to keep organized and how do you do it?
I would love to win this one! My question is -
I do fairly well at getting things organized but it’s usually in vain because my family comes right behind me and leaves a mess. How can I get my husband and kids to jump on the organization train with me?
Pick me, pick me!
Okay, my question: favorite Taste of Home recipe ever … what is it? (You have gotten me hooked on the magazine and their great recipes!)
What a great giveaway your doing. Here my question for you:
Besides organizing, what else do you enjoy doing?
Cool giveaway.
My question for the FREAK:
How, as a mom of a family of five, can I manage to avoid doing laundry seven days a week?
Count me in!! What is your biggest clutter irritation?
Thanks for offering this giveaway! Your site is inspiring me to organize my house. What is the best way to organize laundry supplies??
juliebadoolie@hotmail.com
Count me in! My question is:
If you could change one thing about the world currently what would it be and why?
Oh such a cool giveaway.
The question: What is your #1 favorite organizing product?
Count me in! I actually was going to submit this question to you and just hadn’t gotten around to it. What kind of shower organizer do you use? I have the kind that hangs over the shower head and it just seems to get in the way and doesn’t seem to really secure the bottles well.
Pick me, pick me!!
And my question: how can I deal with all of the paperwork that comes home from school every day? (Gearing up for fall…)
Now I’m really curious about that funky giraffe dance. Think you might post a youtube for us? {you could always get one of the kids to demo} :P
Dear Freak,
Have you ever threatened to toss items that were not put away {repeatedly after asking}, if so what were the results & would you recommend this course of action?
Frustrated Wife
What an awesome giveaway!
Put my name in for the drawing please! Question: My two biggest problem area are the storage building and attic. Any advice for these areas???
Thanks,
Barbara
I have a couple of questions:
What is your opinion on indoor air pollution and what do you do about it in your home?
How do you organize under your kitchen sink? My cleansers or whatever just looks like a mess in my cabinet under the sink. I have not found anything that works or is easy to maintain!
Thanks!
I got chills seeing your giveaway! This may just take the place of my dedication to “Martha”!
Can you offer any words of wisdom for the garage? I really need to help my husband organize it the way I want it!!
please enter me!! :)
as for my question…. hmmm…. do you have a single purse that you use for everything, or many purses that match your shoes (or whatever). How can you easily transfer between purses??
Count me in - my husband calls me “the stuffer” because on the surface, our house looks OK, but if you open a drawer or closet, watch out.
My biggest issues are my recipe box (sits in a “pile” on top of my fridge as there’s no room in the actual box since everthing I print from the internet is 8×11) AND our playroom - I want to find an easy way to keep it simple and to rotate toys, but can’t get around to it as it seems to be a HUGE job.
Thanks!
I want that magazine! I also want to know:
How on earth do I fold a fitted (bottom) sheet so it is a tidy little square-edged package and not just a HUGE WAD O’ FABRIC?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, please enter me. Thanks! Great prize :)
My question: What is your favorite place to shop for organizing products?
Please enter me!!
Here is my question to ask you:
What is your best organizing solutions for children’s play room that have both boy and girl toys in them??
Thanks@
Enter me - and here’s my question - what is your nightmare to have to organize (something you truly wouldn’t want to do)?
First…I love reading your blog. I am a SAHM but I also have my own little business, and I help others get organized! Such fun for me!
My questions would have to be…what is a good way to organize purses/bags? I have tried several methods, and they would work for someone out there, but they are not working for me! HELP!
And I would LOVE to win the magazine…a very special treat indeed :)
Okay, I would love that magazine!
My ask the Freak Question is how is your laundry room organized? Do you have pics?
My laundry room is on my list of things to tackle and I have no idea what I am going to do with it.
I’d love to win. What does your husband think of your organizing obsession?
I would love to win too!
Are your children organized, do they put their things away quickly?
Hmm… my question… how do you organize a 2 child bedroom that has WAY too many toys, and make it easy for them to put their toys away?
Hugs,
Melinda
mghollis 38 at msn dot com
I’d like to be in the running for the subscription!
How can I sort and keep the important papers from each child’s school year(s)? hhmm…I think I need a definition of “important”, also!
When I say I would love this magazine, you (well, maybe you could) dont understand!!
My question to the freak :): How do you keep your bathroom organized?? That seems to get out of control the fastest.
OOOHHHH….I love magazine subscriptions and LOVE to organize, what a perfect match! Please enter me!
Please enter me!
Okay question: If you weren’t an organizing freak, what would you be “freaky” over instead?
How’s that for deep and profound? :v)
Ohhhh! That is a great magazine!!
Ok, here is my question…
what made you decided to become the great organizer that you are? What was your trigger point? What have your children and husband had to adjust to the most?
Kellyn
Pick me!
I’m so excited to have stumbled onto your blog! Gosh, I need help and I need this magazine! Can’t wait to check out more of your info!
Coke or Pepsi?
My question for you is what are your tips for organizing kids clothes? Right now I have all my 3 year old’s clothes in boxes in the closet, grouped by type (jammies, tops, bottoms). She loves to change clothes throughout the day and it seems like every night I have to go re-organize the whole thing in order to find anything to wear the next day. I need some sort of system that she can keep up herself.
Great giveaway!
My question… how do you get kids organized?
Oooh, I would love to get this magazine!!! Here’s my question:
My hubby doesn’t understand my love of purging and organizing, is it ok to knock him out and go through his stuff anyway? LOL ok, maybe not that extreme, but seriously- How do you deal with a family member who doesn’t want to go along with things and get rid of old stuff to organize?
How do you organize those things that don’t fit into any organization? My hubby days there should be a place for everything. But what do you do when you come across something truly odd that doesn’t have a place? Thanks for the giveaway. I SOO could use this prize.
Wonderful! Count me in! What do you have the most trouble organizing?
Blessings,
Niki
I need some help in organizing too! Please count me in!
I’d love to win, and I’d love to get an answer to this one.
It’s a wee bit embarrassing.
If you don’t have a lingerie dresser/chest of drawers, what’s the best way to organize all those little stringy-thingies? :)
Great prize! I am pretty organized, but am always in the need for more help.
Here is my question: What is the easiest way to organize your closet for the seasons? I am always grabbing around my winter coat in the summer and around my tank tops in the winter.
I’d love to win.
You are SO funny. You have already helped me so much!! I guess my freaky question would be “How do I break the bad habits I’ve already created for my children, and break them myself as well!!” Good luck with that one. I’m sort of joking, but I’ll bet you have some insight as well.
Count me in!
Very cool give away!!
Dear Freak, we are a family of 5, we live in 1200 sq ft. We also homeschool (meaning we have 4 desk…mom and kids)… have we outgrown our space or do we need to purge (is 1200 sq ft enough room for a family of 5)??
Thanks for the generous giveaway. Just one would be so exciting to drool over. :)
How to you and your family tackle the outdoor jobs?
So cool - I would love to have this magazine! My question is: “How do you organize a pantry corner cabinet (when the shelves are shaped in a triangle)?”
Ok, time for a question that requires FULL HONESTY :)…
What is the silliest, craziest, weirdest thing you have ever spent time organizing? I mean come on, have you ever organized your undergarments by color-coding them or something crazy like that? :)
(kariplevan@hotmail.com)
Here goes….
How do you organize a child’s room when she thinks cleaning it is shoving everything under the bed? And by everything I mean toys, clothes, papers (aka trash), pieces of what used to be toys, other people’s shoes, couch pillows, and I’m not sure, but I think maybe her brother.
OK, sounds like a great magazine and I have a lot of questions about organizing, but I will try to confine it to one. Right now I am trying to organize my daughter’s room and closet. Any favorite products for organizing closets? I would like to store her things so she can put most of her own things away (she’s two). (avonleajules@gmail.com)
Great giveaway! I need some organization done in my house. We have a table in the kitchen that we drop everything on when we come in the house. Things such as papers, mail, purses, schoolwork, etc. What can I do to keep my table cleared off so I can use it for what it is meant for?
What a great idea! I could always use more organization in my life! Please enter me!
I would LOVE the subscription….
and….
Ask the Freak: What’s one habit you wish your parents would have taught you that would make your life so much easier/better/less cluttered/whatever now???
Friday is my birthday and I would love to have this as a gift!
Oh Dear Freak….how I need your help and a new magazine (which I promise to read through and absorb, immediately followed by passing it on to someone else so it does not become part of the household landscape…..)
Now to my question: I have 3, soon to be four children…Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl. In January when the next one makes her appearance they will be ages 5,4,3 and 2…..We get a lot of handmedowns, and of course, the youngers do or will wear the clothes that the olders have outgrown. I need a system for storing the clothes that have been out grown, or are waiting or the next season….I have tried big bins, but somehow I lose track of what’s there and miss some good stuff. Please help….the basement storage room where these clothes live has become a serious den of iniquity, so you can see why I need your freaky self!
Thanks for your great site!
Heather hereu@ cybermesa.com
I am an organizational junkie too! Please enter me! My e-mail is godsgirltmm@hotmail.com. Thanks!
OH my goodness what a nice gift. My heart was racing just thinking about this wonderful subscription. I have been reading your blog for a while and every time I am done I go and organize something new.
My question to you is have you always been organized or did it come at some major point in your life? ex: having kids, getting married, etc.
Ok. I desperately need this magazine!!!!
Here’s my question:
What is the best way to teach yourself to de-clutter? I am in the process of packing up my house, and I am having some HARD times deciding what goes and what stays. I just can’t part with ANYTHING!!! I’ve tried the whole “three bin system” but the Keep Bin always ends up getting really full, really fast. I just don’t know what I’m doing!!! Help!
I hope that this isn’t a repeat question- I haven’t read all the comments above. How do you keep kid’s clothes organized? I keep my older girls clothes for the younger one to grown into, but I’m having trouble finding a good system for keeping it all organized. Have a wonderful vacation!!
I would LOVE to get that magazine. Here’s my question:
What one piece of advice would you offer to instill the habit of organization in your children?
I’ll give you more than 1 question - just because I like you!! I’m pretty good at coming up with questions…I’m inquisitive, lol. By the way, a lovely prize for sure.
1. What is the quickest way to make an impact on a totally messy room in the shortest amount of time?
2. Is it better to deal with surface clutter or hidden clutter 1st and why?
3. How do you keep inventory of your freezer/pantry foods (what’s your system)?
4. Paper clutter (ugg!) - in detail how do you manage it all & keep on top of it?
I have enjoyed your blog. You are truly good at what you do and have inspired me..from time to time. Enter me in as I could benefit from this magazine. Thanks. Jan
oops! forgot to put in my question…do you know how people leave their clutter behind? Hehe. All of them you can’t take it with you.
Pick me - cluttered by rearing and nature, but minimalist by living out of a suitcase overseas for 18 months.
Question: How do I convince my pack-rat parents to let go of some of the mountains of stuff at their house?
Laura - you’re too funny! Count me in…I ck’d out that magazine when you featured it before. Sounds wonderful!
And, a question…hmmm. How ’bout “what techniques, systems, materials, gadgets, etc. would you suggest for a first-time homeschooler?”
OK here is my Question:
Are you a compulsive list maker?
Do you write out a list and then write it again to get the list perfectly organized?
I do!!! I am a list writing freak (I used to use so much paper that I have switched to using MS Excel).
I would love to win this magazine! I have been looking for more orginization ideas to keep my house as organized as possible…
Ohhh,I have one thing to say… old baby wipe containers work PERFECT for organizing the bathroom cubbord and you can label them to your hearts content.
I hope I win :-)
Non Blogger,
Ally P
tjaksv(at)yahoo(dot)com
Count me in-I just received my first issue but would LOVE to extend my subsription to this awesome magazine!
Question:
My husband is a soccer coach & has tons of soccer balls. He won’t part with them because they are still in excellent condition! What storage container would you recommend to store them in? We just reorganized our garage & I haven’t come up with an idea to store them.
Thanks!
Even if I don’t win, please still doing a post on this…I need help badly!
How do you organize jewelry??? I have dangly earrings & lots of necklaces & I cannot find a nice-looking way to organize them so they are handy, but not sitting out for all to see!
Veggiemomof2@hotmail.com
Ooo, this looks so neat! I love magazines and I like to *read* about being organized (I’ll let ya read between the lines there). My question… We’re going to be moving into a 5th wheel trailer while we build next year. It will be me, my husband, my 2 year old, and (maybe, if I get pg soon!) a newborn! What essentials would you bring and how would I organize said 5th wheel for those couple months?
Pick me! Pick me! ;) Thanks for playing–
oh man, I would really love a subscription to this magazine so here goes…
what is the most indispensable organizing tool for keeping a house w/12 people living in it clean & organized??
prlewis5@yahoo.com
ME! Pick ME!
Does your family ever completely destroy any of your organizational systems? How do you keep them from doing that? My family ALWAYS does and it’s frustrating! :)
What a fabulous idea. Count me in.
My question for Ask-A-Freak:
Any chance I could persuade you to come out to my house (upstate NY)sometime in the next year or two and help me organize my new kitchen addition?(we are starting building in the spring and doing 80% ourselves)
I promise to have lots of baskets to play with :-)
Oooh I would love to win a subscription!
My question is: ‘Have you always been an Organizing Junkie?’
What a great giveaway! I should read through all the questions to make sure that I don’t copy anyone else’s… but I’ll give it a try…
If you were attacked by a vicious group of dust bunnies, what would be your weapon of choice and why?
You have the best giveaway in the whole contest, hands down! Please count me in!!
My question - what’s your biggest weakness/spot in the house when it comes to organization?
I’m a lurker who enjoys your blog and shares your penchant for organizing :).
email is john.kristie@gmail.com
HI! What a great give away your are offering! I hope I win one of the magazines.
Here’s my question:
How can I better organize incoming mail? The stuff that needs to be thrown away is easy…the stuff that needs to be dealt with asap is easy…but what about the stuff that requires a delayed response? I always seem to just pile it up!
Cool, man, do I NEED this prize~!
Question:
Do you come with the magazine every month to organize my home?
If no, maybe suggest some ways to organize the CAR with toys etc. for kids :)
Enter me please..
Enter me please
what is the best way to keep things organized when you have a hubby who is chaotic with his stuff (and likes things a mess)?
i hope i win, sounds like a great mag! :)
I need the help!!!
Here’s my question - How the heck do I keep my house clean all the time when hubs and I both work full time and I have two boys? After we get home, eat supper, do homework, have some family time, go to bed, I’m too tired to do any housework! Therefore the stuff we used all evening just sits around, the next night more stuff is added to the pile, and so on!
This sounds like a lot of fun!!!
Uh,…I have to say it sounds like I would have to go against my mothers teaching to call you a FREAK! BUT…Did I mention that I was the youngest and most (well, maybe NOT MOST) rebellious child in my family which will make this dilemma a frightfully, funky and freakish One for me! So here goes..
Dear FREAK!, I find myself favoring Folly starting on fridays and going through till Mondays and I am going to frightfully await you response as to how I can continue to Fulfill my frolicking through the weekend and still maintain a farely fabulous family home on Monday???
Your fan of the freakishly organized funky’s and junky’s!
Good luck on your contest!
I’ve wanted that magazine ever since you posted about it awhile ago. How on earth to you keep track of multiple small children and keep your house somewhat clean too??? Just wondering cause that seems to be my problem. :)
I would LOVE to have a magazine subscription!
AND
How do you keep all the little things in life organized? I get lots of samples of things and can never figure out how to keep the from being everywhere in the cabinet!
Thanks,
heather
heather@pagesbyheather.com
Thanks for the contest! I am wondering how to set up my homeschool room for the first time. We are building a house and have a homeschool room, but this is my first year homeschooling. I am looking for trendy, but organized.
Just what I needed!
barb j.
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/findingcontentment
Oh, looks like fun! Please enter me.
My question: I don’t typically have problems organizing things, it is my time that gets away from me. How is the best way to organize your time so you get both the things you want to get done, and the things you need to get done, accomplished?
Oh, what to ask? I think I’ll ask my blog profile question, since it’s cute:
You’ve been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What’s your best pose?
I can’t believe no one wants to know how to dance the funky giraffe….LOL!!!!
Enter me in!
Here’s my question - how do you get your husband to organize with you, within your “systems”? I’ve tried and tried, even putting containers where he leaves things, but he’s just not on board! A cleaning guy he is - an organizing guy he’s not!
Freak, help me please! I am having these nightmares. These millions of Legos are building a fortress around me and bodyless doll heads are biting my toes. Bitty unclaimed toys are trying to trip as I walk inside my Lego prison. And all I can hear from the outside is my 3 year old saying “No, Mommy, I can’t clean up, my arms are broken” and my husband saying, “What have you been doing all day?” Help me, how can I organize these small toys so that they are accessible and easy for a 3 year old to clean up!!!!!!yardsaleprincess1@yahoo.com
We live overseas in a tiny (by American standards) apartment. Do you have any organizing tips for small spaces…especially toys of 2 little ones.
Oh, my love of magazines and my need for organizing combined in one place! Sigh.
Here’s my question/organizing problem: I have tried several different containers for toiletries on my bathroom counter, and every time I remove one bottle, the rest fall over like bowling pins! How do you keep your toiletries straight?
Thanks!!!!
This is awesome!
? How do I get my DH to participate in the oragnization process…or just to honor the organized stuff?
What is a good way to plant plants- flowers, bushes etc… in an organized way, yet not looking too minimalistic or asian styled?
I want this magazine sub so bad!!
I want it! I want it! I want it.
Question: Large family organizing in a small home? When kids share rooms etc. how do you split the space? Each child with their own toy box? Or one monster toy box?
Laura,
I recently found your blog and LOVE LOVE LOVE it! And could definetely use a subscription to this mag!
My question is: What is an easy and conveinent way to organize memorabilia? I would love to scrapbook, but just can’t figure out the time to do it!
Thanks…and I have my fingers crossed for the giveaway!!
:) Traci
OK… my question is:
How in the world do two people who are getting married decide on who’s stuff to keep and where to put it?
I’m getting married in like… a month and although I’ve done OK being organized when it was JUST ME, I am having issues with making my future hubby submissive to my organizing ways.
In other words… he won’t get rid of his stuff! :O)
Please enter me in the contest…. I soooo need it!
count me in !!! love the idea
So Mrs. Freak, what makes you any more a freak than the rest of us? And how on earth do you have room to run around a table looking like a funky giraffe? And what exactly does a funky giraffe look like?
Wonderful giveaway :)
Lisa B @ simplyHis.org
My question: how do you organize your financial files and your “emergency” files?
I *need* this subscription! My family of 6 just downsized from 3400 sq. ft. to 1400 sq. ft., plus added a second dog (great dane puppy) to the mix on moving day, no less!
My question is: What is your most inexpensive and most valuable (in terms of use) organizing tool?
Great Giveaway! I would like to know how to get rid of the bathroom smells…right now I feel like I am walking into the Monkey House at the zoo! Also, do you find yourself straightening the shelves when you are out shopping? I drive my husband crazy doing this. I’m really good at it though…I get my shopping done AND leave the aisle looking great! lol!!
Wow! That’s a great prize. My question to you is…How do you keep on top of the laundry?
Please enter my name as well! As a organizational freak I would LOVE LOVE this magazine.
What is your favorite store to buy organizational stuff?
Oh I really want this magazine!
Here is my question…
I am a SAHM with my own nline business out of our guest room/my office upstairs. I have to store some of our inventory (mostly children’s clothes, blankets, and smaller items). Do you have any suggestions in organizing this space so that when guests come and stay they still feel at home and not like they are stuffed into my office? :) My dad comes to stay with us often. Thanks so much!
OK, so I may have found a new obsession…reading your blog. My husband kindly refers to me as OCD, however the one area I struggle with most is organizing bills and papers in a way that I can maintain. I am truly ADD, so if I can ever get stuff orderly, I can usually maintain it, if not, well…Anyway, do you have any good ideas?
I live in a one income family — can I afford to be organized? ;) I like containers too… just don’t like the price. :/
Thank You!
Ooh! I would love to win a subscription to the magazine. My question is, what one organizing tool/tip/method could you not live without? (I didn’t read all 120 comments, so I hope this is not a repeat!)
Please enter me! Here is my question - I have 3 sons and a TON of lego. What do you think is the best way to organize them? Currently I have some separate by theme (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Castle), a box for minifigs, and then boxes of everything else (including a Box4Bloks for small pieces). I have boxes everywhere!
thanks - my email is mb32ATcomcastDOTnet.
Please enter me in!
And, what book on organizing is your favourite?
What a wonderful prize! Our biggest organizational problems seem to be in outbuildings - so do you have any inexpensive tips for keeping a shop or toolshed (or garage; we don’t have one but the shed is a similar idea) organized?
Here’s two questions.
1. What do you do with magazines after you have read them?
2. A used car salesman hires you to organize his car lot. What system will you use? Make & model? Years? Color? Price? Alphabetical?
I need this magazine!
My question:
How do you keep your car organized, at least at a level below a health code violation, with many little bodies and only two parental hands? I already have to make at least two trips from car to house after every major outing (and every outing is major) - one for diaper bag/purse/miscellany and one for children (I’ve got three in carseats).
Mama Says
Count me in.
I am so unorganized and easily feel overwhelmed when trying to “take control” of the clutter. I have baskets, I have bins, things seem to fly out of them or never make it into them. If I put everything away, it’s everywhere again within a day - and kids aren’t doing this, we are!
I have no idea where to start - what’s a good beginner tip? Something that makes a difference without being an overwhelming amount of work?
Count me in! I need any inspiration that I can get!
Oh do count me in…i love to organize i.e. drive others mad with my gift!
Pick me! Pick me!
Question for the freak:
I have a big closet, but it has become a dumping ground for everything. What is the best way to organize purses, belts, and scarves (the things that are causing most of the clutter in my closet)?
From one freak to another, I would totally looooove this magazine! Here’s my question…
Is there one room/area/thing that you don’t really like to organize? That you find challenging or overwhelming?
Thanks!
Kelley
kaprahl@sbcglobal.net
Count me in because I love to organize. Farley80@sbcglobal.net
Diana
Ooh, I would love this!
Freak, you’ve probably done this before, but what containers do you use to organize your snack foods? Bags of half eaten chips and cracker boxes fall on me when I search for food.
I need this one!!!! Count me in please.
Ok, question…
Freak, What ways would you suggest involving young children in the process of organizing a home?
Ooo, I so need to get organized! Please sign me up for this giveaway! =)
Blessings!
i just posted the moving question–my e-mail is mans@mountaincable.net
Karen
This magazine looks fabulous! I do hope you’ll pick my name. :)
My question -
Do you have any great ideas for organizing the garage? I desparately need to organize ours but hardly know where to begin.
Thanks!
how did you turn your love into a business for yourself?
How do you deal with “special memory” items — things that are very meaningful for one reason or another but just take up too much darn room? This is a problem all over the house, and I could use some specific tactics…DH’s first hard drive and his first computer (ok, first 6 computers…), the bed frame that Grandma grew up using, icky old linens that belonged to Great Auntie…it goes on and on….
Would love this subscription!
Freak question - I need ideas on how to best organize my underwear drawer :) - Everything is currently just thrown in - you don’t fold panties do you?
Holy Moses! You KNOW I want in on this one! Woohoo!
Question: Of all the animals of the air, land, and sea, which do you feel is the most organized and why?
I could really use this!! I’m soooo unorganized….do you do house calls, lol!!
Thanks for offering the magazines! How cool!!!
I’d love help with organizing recipes or my “inbox” pile of papers that just keeps growing.
I’ll email you my email address. Thanks for including non-bloggers in your contest.
Oooh, looks GREAT! My sister calls me the “Organizing Guru” so I would LOVE it!
Also, do you purchase organizing “vessels” in bulk that match? I do, and I’m a little ashamed about that fact in front of my friends who don’t “share the love”, you know. :)
With 2 children and a full-time job I need all the organizational help I can get. Love the Blog.
Question - Is there a room in your home that is never organized???
I’m drooling just thinking about that magazine!!!
Question: I have a desk/mail organizer…but it doesn’t seem to have enough compartments for how I like to organize bills. Currently we pile them ALL together and then monthly we divide them into piles - medical, utility, credit card(s), bank statements, other. I would lOVE to move this to one step so I”m not piling and THEN organizing. I want to move straight to organizing…but I don’t have the right tool yet. Any ideas? Container? Organizer? Etc? Files don’t seem to work because out of site - TOTALLY out of mind. Thanks!
Ohh please enter me.I have been snooping at your blog for some time so my question is…. How much does you hubby weigh? lol just kidding seriously . Do you keep a home management book? then why or why not? Do you think there are any benefits in keeping one to stay organized.
Nikki
Please enter me!
Holy crap Laura!! =) 150 comments?! Good grief!!
Well, definitely count me in on this bloggy giveaway! =) I would love a subscription to that magazine. Hope you’re doing well!
Please enter me…..
My question: When one is so overwhelmed with the task at hand, where do you begin?
Oh how I could use this. Please add me in.
nhizname@gmail.com
I m a desperate 57 yr. old organizationally challenged packrat that would love to have this magazine.
My question?
Just before you become a decrepit old woman like me what will you do to organize your home as you face this milestone in your life?
Wow do I need this!
julie_ruhlman@hotmail.com
Question: How in the world do you organize your kids’ art projects?!?
Hi Laura aka ‘Freak’ (which sounds like such a nasty thing to call someone to whom I am just introducing myself! :)),
I am a long time reader…but apparently you had to offer a mag. sub. to a publication called ‘Organize’ to draw me out of lurkdom! You have succeeded! Thanks!
I would LOVE to have a subscription to that magazine. It sounds wonderful, as I love the thought of being perfectly organized…but then what would I do with all my time that I now spend thinking of ways to organize?
So…I tried to think of the thing that is the most difficult for me to organize in my household…beside my whole basement, that is…and I came up with books.
I have books, and books, and books, and did I mention books? I homeschool, so collecting books is a necessity, it seems. How can I organize my books? Do they all have to be displayed on shelves thereby getting dusty? How can I remember what books I have, so that I can find said books when I actually need them?
I feel better now that I have the expert (well ‘Freak’ would be the same thing as expert, right?) on the job.
Thanks!
Brenda (who lives in Canada and was thrilled that the offer was made to those in CANADA and the U.S.!!!!!)
First of all, k. has a GREAT question!! My toddler also loves to change clothes throughout the day (I’m teaching her how to dress herself) and that leaves all the clothes in a mess. I hope you pick her and answer that!!
As for myself, my question is what do you do with those sentimental things (like figurines) that you love and never want to part with, but also never want to dust?
I have some figurines that my mother gave me on important occasions (moving out, wedding, college graduation, etc) that while I don’t ever want to give away, neither am I really feeling a precious moments graduate in my bedroom. What are your thoughts?
Me ME ME!!! I am a working mother of 6, married to the greatest guy in the world, but I need so much help in the world of organizing! I would lOVE a subscription to this magazine.
My question for you is: what are your top 5 tips for keeping your home organized? The 5 things that keep things looking good, in order, straight, etc.? I can do 5 things!!
What a great giveaway :)
Here is my question: Do you think that being organized is a vital part of your life, or would things run pretty much the same, even if it was messy? :)
anastasia_falling@yahoo.com
Ooooh, I would LOVE a subscription!
My question:
I have a table where I recharge all my tech devices: phone, pda, husband’s phone, and also have my camera battery charger there. Its such a tangled mess. Any ideas on how to recharge all these things and not have them look like a tangled ugly mess?
How fun!! Ok, here’s my question:
If you could create a new kind of organizer, what would it look like & what would you do with it?