I am always looking for ways to re-purpose things in my house. I really do get a “high” from it. Nothing makes me happier than to solve an organizational dilemma using something I already own often in a new way other than what it was originally intended for. Creativity really isn’t my strong suit [...]
At risk of boring your all to tears, I realized I haven’t mentioned the memory binders I keep for each of my kids. A couple of weeks ago I talked about how I organize the kids school papers. I have totes for each child in their closet for the bigger stuff but in order to [...]
I’m constantly trying to introduce new inexpensive storage solutions into my house and for the most part my hubbie is pretty accomodating.
Remember back in October I told you about a disagreement my hubbie and I had about putting a dresser in the living room. You can read about it here. He didn’t like the idea [...]
My very organized friend, Barb, did an awesome post complete with a gazillion pictures of the binder she created for all of her “Good Things”. This is the place she stores all the magazine articles she wants to keep and other things she occassionally wants to refer back to. It’s all organized and lovely and [...]
Often my organizing projects will start out of annoyance. Take yesterday for instance when I opened the freezer door and had an ice pack fall out on my foot. Ohhh I hate that! I immediately had to stop what I was doing and take care of this little problem. I was ANNOYED….stupid freezer. It’s such [...]
I don’t know if you’ve heard (he he) but I LOVE containers! What I also love though and what you might not know is that I love to use those containers to consolidate. I love just saying that word. Anytime I can consolidate many things into one thing, thereby taking up less space makes me [...]
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Dear Laura,I have greatly appreciated your ideas about organizing the house. My pressing problem is SHOES at the front door. I have trained everyone to take off their shoes as they walk in, but this means we always have this mess. The space is very narrow. Do you have any ideas for me? I’d [...]
In our house we have a saying. A necessary saying because in our house, as is normal for most homes I’m sure, items seem to magically wander from their normal “place of residence” to another area of the house.
What makes me happy though is that I only have to shout two words to my kids [...]
Remember just last week when I was all giddy with glee over my new little toy for my sunglasses?
Well now I’m bummed because look what I just saw on the Solutions site.
This one also has a cell phone pocket! I mean I’ve always wanted a cell phone pocket….well not really but I [...]
I received this email last week from a reader:
Help! I have been trying to organize my linen closet over the past couple of weeks. I went to Walmart and bought a big 3 drawer storage unit and several other storage containers. Yesterday I took them out …….. didn’t work for me. I’ve got my [...]
