My children love technology. Who am I kidding...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But in real life you can't sit on your iPod all day and ignore that there are chores and responsibilities for each of us. In real life we have to be responsible. At least that's what I tell myself when I sit down to pay bills. What's that saying? “If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do ...continue reading
Christmas Presents Organized
It's so funny that when you are an organizer you naturally come up with a system for everything. This time I came up with a system for organizing our Christmas presents. I'm not talking about the lists I have for each person I'm shopping for or the Wunderlist I've created for store by store shopping. I'm talking about keeping track of what present is for what family after it's been wrapped and tagged. If you're anything like our family we celebrate with friends and ...continue reading
The Cottage
I have some new clients that I am pretty darn excited about. We are new friends and have known each other for about a year. But this is first time that we have worked on any organizing together. They recently had the ability to travel abroad for an extended period of time and upon returning to their home they realized it was time to make some changes. When you live out of a backpack and barely have any of your possessions with you for an extended period of time it ...continue reading
How To Keep Your Dresser Drawers Tidy
Dresser drawers get treated pretty poorly. Things are shoved in, forced to comply to the given space and things often disappear never to be heard from again. OK maybe I'm being a bit dramatic but for the most part we just don't have our drawers looking great and functioning to their greatest potential. I thought I would offer up a few solutions for how to make your drawers a little more Neat & Pretty. These are some simple solutions that won't break the bank and you ...continue reading
Welcome to Organizing School
I mentioned this before but I wanted to come back around to this topic of similarity and discuss how it works in organizing. I suppose one might call this a secret to creating an organized space. I think when we are organizing a space there is some confusion about what to use, how to group and how to decide what goes together. Most of the time the goal in organizing is to help make it easier to find things that we are looking for. But sometimes the goal is to make ...continue reading
