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
War on School Papers
If you're anything like me...you are always battling a war on paper...specifically school papers. We talked about those stacks of paper last week. Let's continue to talk about how those stacks of paper enter your home. They don't always enter your home as a stack...usually they come in the form of cute drawings and special stories written by your children. They come in the form of papers from the teacher and communication from school. There are all kinds of sources ...continue reading
Back To School Stacks
I feel like most of what I have done this week is put out fires and tackle stacks. Monday was our first day of school. I have two in elementary school and this year I have one in middle school. This means two times the parent meetings, two times the school events and two times the paperwork. Well, truly I have three sets of paperwork but two different schools means different channels of communication going out and coming in. To top that all off I spent all ...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
Office and Laundry Room Update
Back in August we decided to update our laundry room/storage area and turn it into a functional office space for the Mister and a much more comfortable laundry room for myself. This area is accessed by going out of our house into our carport and then there is a little room off the carport. It's been cold and ugly and dirty...not exactly the place you'd like to be doing laundry or working, right? Here is a little reminder of what we did to the room in August. And here ...continue reading
