Kid Stuff : I'm an Organizing Junkie

When Kid’s Play Spaces Take Over YOUR Spaces!

Posted by Laura on February 27, 2012 · 6 Comments

Guest posting today is Amy Fazackerley, creator of the awesome Lay-n-Go toy storage product line that I love. Amy is also one of our terrific sponsors for the 29 Day Organizing Challenge. Welcome Amy! It happens to every household: once your kiddo is about 5 years old, “the plastic toy tide” begins to rise. The [...]

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Organizing Kid’s Papers and Art Projects

Posted by Laura on February 22, 2012 · 15 Comments

Please welcome my guest today Colleen Garcia. Colleen is a sponsor of this month’s organizing challenge (thanks Colleen!) and Clever Container Consultant. I often get asked how to handle all the paper that kids bring home from school each day. Colleen has some great tips! With the joy of being a mother and getting to [...]

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My Favorite Visual Calendar for Kids!

Posted by Laura on February 17, 2012 · 3 Comments

I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am that I’m able to run another promotion in my shop on one of my all time favorite tools for empowering kids with organization. This magnetic wipe-off visual calendar was used by my son for years and years starting from about 2 years of age [...]

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Organizing & Inventorying Children’s Clothing + free printables!

Posted by Laura on February 7, 2012 · 7 Comments

Today I’ve got one of our awesome sponsors of the 29 Day Organizing Challenge here with us to help with a question that is very popular…how to organizing children’s clothing yet to be grown into or for the change of seasons. Jennifer from Listplanit.com offers some great tips and includes TWO free printables as well!! [...]

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Teaching Your Kids to Organize

Posted by Laura on January 26, 2012 · 26 Comments

Last week I wrote a post about my love of purging. Afterwards I got a sweet email from a reader that I’d like to share with you. When I was a child (now I’m 58), we didn’t have many toys but my mom was always giving away what we did have to my cousins who [...]

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My #1 Secret for Keeping Toys Organized

Posted by Laura on December 14, 2011 · 17 Comments

Whenever I go to visit my sister (who lives in Ontario) I almost always get to help them organize some part of their house. It’s fun for me and I get to spend someone else’s money on organizing supplies. What could be better than that? A few weeks before I was to arrive my brother-in-law [...]

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Product of the Week: Lay-n-Go Lego Play Mat, Clean Up Helper and Storage All in One!!

Posted by Laura on October 26, 2011 · 8 Comments

I am so excited to tell you about this week’s product! The Lay-n-Go is an activity mat that provides easy clean up and storage all in one product. It’s awesome and I can’t say enough good things about it or recommend it more highly. It’s easy to use and keeps all sorts of small toys [...]

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Games Cupboard Organization & Other Purge Piles

Posted by Laura on October 13, 2011 · 14 Comments

So I’ve been a busy girl these last two weeks. Last week I noticed that our games had somehow started breeding in the night. I was finding them stashed all over the house and then I figured out why. Our games closet was full…as in we were fitting nothing else in there. So the kids [...]