Tackle it Tuesday: Exercise Equipment Turned Clutter Catcher
I have a treadmill and an elliptical workout machine in my bedroom. Unlike a lot of people, I LOVE my exercise equipment and feel lucky to have it in my home (it was a great Christmas present from a relative). However, after an injury I couldn’t use the [...]

Storage Solution: Scanning Kids’ Art Projects
If you’re a parent like me, you probably collect a large treasure trove of masterpieces… paintings, drawings, collages and coloring pages.  Only these aren’t museum pieces framed on our walls, these are our children’s art projects!  We have art projects done at home and at playdates.  School age children also [...]

The baskets pictured are supposed to hold the small items that need to be on my desk, while making them look neater. In reality, they catch clutter and end up holding a lot of items which really don’t need to be at my workstation.
Step 1: Sort contents into “workstation” and “other.”
Step 2: Put all the [...]

While making my Summer Projects List, I added “clean under the bathroom sink” to the list. It hasn’t been done in a long time and was definitely overdue. When you have to push things back to fit in a new item, it’s time to purge!
I made half of the products under the sink disappear. There [...]

Box Tops for Education, Betty Crocker points, UPCs for rebates, Campbells Soup Labels: all these items come off of packages which are usually kept in the kitchen. Without a permanent home for these little cut-outs while waiting to turn them in or redeem them, they can get scattered or lost and possibly never used. Instead [...]

If you missed last week, I am participating in The Lazy Organizer’s SMART Habit Saturday! I chose one new habit to work on and report back with my progress each Saturday.My habit for April is scanning. If you missed it, read about my project from last week. I am digitizing all paper in our house [...]

This is my first week participating in The Lazy Organizer’s Smart Habit Saturday! It’s hard to choose just one new habit to work on, when we are all constantly finding little ways to improve our time, finances and lives.
The habit I’ll be tracking in April is scanning. I have been working on the files, piles, [...]