by Heidi | Oct 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ‘Day 15 ‘ in the month long series of articles cataloging
Simple Organizing Solutions!
The key to an organized & productive day?
Begin thinking about it the night before…
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by Heidi | Oct 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ‘Day 14’ in the month long series of articles cataloging
Simple Organizing Solutions!
If you’ve been reading from the beginning, you’ve hopefully already, 1) Gotten the right mindset and motivation needed to get organized. 2) Zeroed in on one small area to focus your efforts. 3) Have begun narrowing down your belongings to what what you love, use and actually have the room to store. and 4) Considered how to cut clutter at the source by giving each item a specific ‘home’ stored in groups of like items (5) & set a maintenance plan in motion.
Now that we’re about midway through the 31 days, I thought it would be helpful to to add in a few additional doses of ‘Motivation’ before moving onto the next phase…
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by Heidi | Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ‘Day 13’ in the month long series of articles cataloging
Simple Organizing Solutions!
If you’ve been reading from the beginning, you’ve hopefully already, 1) Gotten the right mindset and motivation needed to get organized. 2) Zeroed in on one small area to focus your efforts. 3) Have begun narrowing down your belongings to what what you love, use and actually have the room to store. and 4) Considered how to cut clutter at the source by giving each item a specific ‘home’ stored in groups of like items (5) & set a maintenance plan in motion.
Are you running out of options to assign ‘homes’ to your belongings? Perhaps more clutter needs to be cut out…
If you’re still feeling stuck in the process of cutting through the clutter, consider these questions:
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by Heidi | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ‘Day 12’ in the month long series of articles cataloging
Simple Organizing Solutions!
If you’ve been reading from the beginning, you’ve hopefully already, 1) Gotten the right mindset and motivation needed to get organized. 2) Zeroed in on one small area to focus your efforts. 3) Have begun narrowing down your belongings to what what you love, use and actually have the room to store. and 4) Considered how to cut clutter at the source by giving each item a specific ‘home’ stored in groups of like items (5) & set a maintenance plan in motion.
The key to keeping magazines under control is to give them a ‘home‘ that specifically limits the number you can have. The space you dedicate to these materials should realistically relate to the amount of space you actually have as a whole to store them.
The smaller the space you live in, the smaller the space you’ll have to dedicate to non-essential items like magazines.
A great solution for small spaces is a wall-mounted unit like this:
Contemporary Wall Shelves via houzz
Designate a single basket or bin to go on top of, or underneath a coffee table:
Maybe one or two magazine files to sit on top of a shelf or counter top:
Take some time to establish some realistic boundaries or limits to amount of magazines you plan to store at any given time. This is especially important if you have subscriptions to one or even multiple magazines – it is always a guarantee that MORE are coming.
Maybe you’ll be really strict and establish a one-in, one-out rule where when you receive a new issue, you part with the older issue. Or, maybe you’ll decide to keep up to 3-5 total back issues. The key is is to establish at least some kind of boundary or expectation.
Even if you do have the space to dedicate nearly completely to magazines like this shelving unit:
The key is to take plenty of time to really consider the ‘why’ behind the desire to keep multiple issues of magazines. Are you actually taking the time to look through all those back issues? Do you need to keep the entire magazine, or would one or two pages really be sufficient for the purposes of your retention? Let the answers to those questions be the start to help guide your limits and boundaries plan for magazine storage.
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by Heidi | Oct 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ‘Day 11’ in the month long series of articles cataloging
Simple Organizing Solutions!
If you’ve been reading from the beginning, you’ve hopefully already, 1) Gotten the right mindset and motivation needed to get organized. 2) Zeroed in on one small area to focus your efforts. 3) Have begun narrowing down your belongings to what what you love, use and actually have the room to store. and 4) Considered how to cut clutter at the source by giving each item a specific ‘home’ stored in groups of like items (5) & set a maintenance plan in motion.
When living in colder climates, our family has used hanging canvas organizers like these to hold our winter gear like mittens, scarves and hats. Each person had their own slot or set of slot/shelves to hold their individual items.
Here’s a few other ideas:
over the door shoe organizer
Giant wall mounted clothes pins:
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by Heidi | Oct 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ‘Day 10’ in the month long series of articles cataloging
Simple Organizing Solutions!
If you’ve been reading from the beginning, you’ve hopefully already, 1) Gotten the right mindset and motivation needed to get organized. 2) Zeroed in on one small area to focus your efforts. 3) Have begun narrowing down your belongings to what what you love, use and actually have the room to store. and 4) Considered how to cut clutter at the source by giving each item a specific ‘home’ stored in groups of like items (5) & set a maintenance plan in motion.
I absolutely adore this solution for corralling all the random STUFF that kids seem to produce…
“If {mom} sees or collects any one’s ‘crap’ throughout the house, it goes in that person’s basket. When they are on their way upstairs, they need to either take their crap or just take the whole basket full of crap with them.”
*Bonus expectation:
If the basket is not emptied out and put away by the end of the day, the contents goes into moms collection and the guilty party needs to earn it back.
Here are a few other interpretations of this idea:
Wall Mounted
Better Homes & Gardens
Color Coded Dollar Store Baskets
Under a Bench:
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