Hello my beautiful people, today is an exciting day! Awhile ago I told you about a new site called Capessa that I was addicted to enjoying very much. Today I’m joining forces with them to bring you a terrific giveaway, a $200.00 gift card to The Container Store!! It won’t even matter if you don’t have a Container Store near you, you can always use it online. How cool is that!
I’ve put together 10 Tips For A Chaos Free Home that I hope you find helpful. Below you’ll see 5 of them and the other 5 you’ll find listed on the Capessa site. All you have to do to enter this giveaway is to have a read of the 5 tips below as well as the other 5 tips on Capessa and let us know in the comments, on this post, the two tips (one from each site) that would make/or has made the biggest difference in your life. Contest ends Friday, April 11th at 11:59 am.
Tips for a Chaos Free Home:
- Create a weekly cleaning schedule.
- Do a 10 minute tidy each night before bed.
- Create a Command Center in your home.
- Create an I’m Outta Here shelf by your front door.
- Send your kids on a daily Walk-About.
The other 5 tips are here.
And for your viewing pleasure I’m adding another Capessa organizing video below for you to enjoy, I seriously can’t get enough of these! In this one a Professional Organized shares her Secret Tips for Getting Kids Organized.
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The tips I like the best are never leave a room empty handed. W/ the mess we make daily, that would cut the accumlation down. The second tip I like is making a weekly cleaning schedule. I started one a while back and stuck to it till I had my last baby. I haven’t been able to find my groove again. Would love to make a whole house cleaning schedule and stick to it. Need that balance between cleaning and kids.
It was very difficult to narrow it down to one from each site – these are all great! The two that I found the most helpful (and are things I need to tackle) are 1) the walk-about and 2) Give yourself permission to get rid of stuff. With the walk-about, my daughter is only 18 months so she’s a little young to do this full force, but we do put her toys “to bed” at night and she is very good about putting things in their designated space.
Weekly cleaning schedule, and weekly menu plans/groceries. Those are my two.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Let me just say that I found your website about 2 weeks ago and I have been obsessed ever since! I am naturally a very messy (not dirty, just messy) person and ever since I have been living on my own, I struggle to keep things neat and tidy!
For the past 2 weeks I have been doing the “10 min tidy”…I set the clock, and whatever cleaning I can get done in 10 mins, is all I have to do! I have been able to keep my living space and kitchen so much more organized!
As for the suggestions from Capessa’s list, I think never leaving a room empty handed would help me a ton! Grabbing stuff to take upstairs, moving a glass to the kitchen, etc, would keep me so much more sane!
Thanks for all the great tips!
Nicole :)
I want to start getting more organized (before kids start coming along!) I like the 10 minute cleanup idea, and I could really help myself by giving myself permission to get rid of things.
#1 I really need to start a weekly menu. My pantry is FULL, yet I can never seem to figure out what to cook without going to the store!
#2 I will start an evening 10 minute ‘pick-up’ session with my hubby. The two of us could do a lot of clean-up in 10 minutes!
Thanks for the tips!
I love all of these tips!
1. 10 minute tidy!
2. never leave a room empty handed
The Ten Minute Tidy before bed (I have to do this every night or I can’t sleep..some sort of OCD I’m sure..lol) and Never Leave a Room empty handed.
The weekly cleaning plan has helped, and I LOVE containers! I’m still trying to organize my home and I rely heavily on containers.
My two favorite tips are:
From Capessa Website
5. Give yourself permission to get rid of things in your home that you don’t use or that don’t bring you joy.
And from the list here
Create a weekly cleaning schedule.
Have I done both of these things? NO, but I am slowly inching my way there.
My 2 favorite tips are:
The Ten Minute Tidy before bed.
Never Leave a Room empty handed.
This made me smile because I just created a weekly cleaning schedule for myself on Monday! Hopefully that will help me keep things tidier.
I always have trouble letting myself let go of things, so that will be my other favorite tip. I never thought of it as getting rid of things that don’t make me happy–maybe that will help me this time around!
I love the command center, I do that now, and it is so helpful. I also really like the idea of making a proper place for everything, so that you know when something is not in the right place, and it can be moved. Great tips!!
The two biggest for me are:
2. Have a designated place for everything that is accessible and easy to use to avoid a) wasting time looking for things and b) spending money to replace things that you can’t find.
I wish I had enough room in my house to make a space for everything. I try so hard, but really, I need to get rid of more stuff.
and
Do a 10 minute tidy each night before bed.
I’ve tried to get my husband to buy into this, so that we both do it, but somehow I just can’t get him on board!
I must say sending my daughter on a “walk-about” has helped me the most! But my version of it is a little different. I send my daughter outside for a walk-about. She is 5 and I homeschool, so I normally send her outside in the afternoon, this gives me time to quickly run through the house before my husband gets home and strighten up without her underfoot.
I also think having a weekly cleaning schedule is important. I remember my Grandma telling me Monday is for Laundry, Tuesday for Ironing, etc. I have designated Monday for Laundry, that is my main goal for the day. Every day of the week has something scheduled for it. This has worked wonders in my home.
I need to do a 10 minute tidy at the end of the day so everything doesn’t get so piled up that it’s overwhelming. I also need to give myself permission to get rid of stuff I’m not using and that doesn’t do any good for me. These are great tips! Love them!
Definitely the weekly cleaning schedule will make the biggest difference for me. I already work with the mantra, “Never leave a room empty handed,” but there’s so much more than just clutter to stay on top of. Thanks for the great tips on how to create a schedule (also love the mission statement).
My two tips that would help the most are:
1. Have a cleaning scheudle. I am rather random and often avoid the jobs I don’t like doing for too long.
and . . .
5. Give yourself permission to get rid of things in your home that you don’t use or that don’t bring you joy. I am a bit of a hoarder, not like on Oprah but I definitely find it hard to get rid of things.
But I could use some MORE stuff from the Container Store! Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
The ten minute tidy up before bed is a big one in my life, kids are asleep i can just go around and quickly put everything away.
also think Plan weekly menus and stick to a set grocery day will be a big help once i get it into place. Cant wait to look at ur site, love being organised but at the moment seems so scarey.
Do a 10 minute tidy each night before bed.
Never leave a room empty handed.
These are KEY in my home!!
My favorites are permission to get rid of things in your home that you don’t use or that don’t bring you joy (do I really need to keep this even though it was from my grandmother?) and Weekly Cleaning Schedule – but mine’s Daily – Sometimes it’s overwhelming how much there is to do. So I stop and look at my list – did I do #1? No, then do that. Then go to #2. And step by step, it gets done.
Well, I really need all of these in my life, but the ones that would probably help the most to begin with are:
Create a weekly cleaning schedule.
and
Plan weekly menus and stick to a set grocery day.
Thanks for all of the great ideas.
I’ve always been a organizer wannabe and since I was in grade school, your #1 tip on this site of creating a weekly cleaning schedule has been a lifetime help for me.
The #5 tip, give yourself permission to get rid of things in your home that you don’t use or that don’t bring you joy, that I saw over at Capessa is something that I need to live by. My mother is a packrat and that can’t be healthy.
I don’t think I’ve signed up for this yet (of course, if I have, you could just delete this one!.) :)
Also, awesome, awesome, that you’re on Capessa!
I love the 10 minute tidy before bed and I live by the weekly menu planning. I hate to wake up to a mess, so I always tidy up quickly before bed … especially the kitchen. I make sure the dishwasher is run every night so hubby can empty in the morning and I don’t have to pile dishes on the counter when I get home to make dinner. As for the menus … it keeps us on track for a faster non-impulse buying trip to the grocery store and since my husband makes lunches while I’m reading to the kids and getting them off to bed, he can see what to pack for the kids’ lunches without having to ask me! Love it!
Oops! Okay, now you need to delete the first comment.. I forgot to leave my answers.
Definitely the most helpful tip from this page has been to create a weekly cleaning schedule.
It’s hard to pick only one from the list on Capessa. I use all of them except for number 4, which I need to work on. My favorite is using containers but my most helpful would be creating specific homes so you can find things when you need them and not waste money buying extras.
From this site: #1 – Create a weekly cleaning schedule. I’ve been meaning to do this forever and these tips just jump-started me into action.
From Capessa: #4 – Never leave a room empty handed. Now if I can get my husband to live by the same rule, we’ll be set!
WOW! These are all fantastic ideas! Thanks for sharing!
I have been trying to do the 10 minute tidy-up before bed (mostly in the kitchen & kids shoes).
I usually make a weekly menu with grocery list (but don’t always shop on same day).
I need to have a command central & containers (instead of using my island counter top for everything including school papers).
I have finally given myself permission to throw out stuff that doesn’t bring me joy! That’s such a relief!
I just recently found your web site. I love it! My 2 favorites are what you called a walk about, we call it Pick Up Race. My kids respond well to challenge.
The other is the container idea. I am trying to incorporate this one. I have a Mystery of History Co-op and Keepers of the Home girls group that meet in my home. I never have enough storage for all the supplies needed. Containers are expensive so this contest was very appealing. Thank you!
1. Have a weekly menu and set grocery date. (This has saved me not only money but time.)
2. Creating A Command Center
Hi!
1. Schedule cleaning
2. Menu planning
I’ve implemented the menu planning and it’s helped a ton… really life changing. I’m working on setting up schedules so the cleaning schedule ideas is perfect!
Thanks so much!
Babsi
This is my first day viewing your site and I love it already! My two favorites are:
Plan weekly menus and stick to a set grocery day. (It has saved me lots of $$ and time!)
Do a 10 minute tidy each night before bed. (We definitely need to make this a regular routine before my kids head up to bed so my husband and I aren’t cleaning up all their toys after they are sleeping!)
1. Out of here shelf
2. Use containers to boundaries and limits.
I have been giving myself permission to get rid of anything that doesn’t give me pleasure or that we don’t use. What a difference that makes!
I think the next biggest helper would be to have a weekly cleaning schedule. I believe I will try that starting this week.
Thanks for the tips.
Definately the creat a command center(which we did beside the front door) and use containers to establish boundaries and limits. I have baskets on the little hutch we use as a command center, on the dining room hutch, in the kids rooms,laundry room etc.
o.k. i’m always reading and trying to find new ways to keep organized. so my two faves are
10 MINUTE TIDY what a great idea
NEVER LEAVE THE ROOM EMPTY HANDED i do try to do that, but to write it down to help you stay organized brillant!
Great blog and prize. Definitely a weekly cleaning schedule and containers for our stuff is the way to go for me and my family.
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