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Get Your Family Organized for Fall

Fall is a great time to get organized! The weather is energizing, the routines are back to normal, and the holidays are not too far away. Establish easy routines and tackle problem areas to make your family life a little easier this season. Eliminate School Lunch Chaos This is an especially good tip if you have three or more school-age children at home. Pick up a clear plastic bin meant for your refrigerator and place it on a low shelf where the kids can reach. The night before, fill the bin with portioned out snacks, such as carrots, grapes, cheese … Continue reading →

Storage Ideas

Is storage an issue for you?  Maybe you don’t have enough cabinets, rooms or closets to store everything.  Or it could be that the system you use for storing has become nothing more than a hot mess, and you still can’t find anything. With limited space in my home, there are two main things I use for storage.  The first is binders and the second is plastic containers. Binders are a great way to store all of your papers.  You can put together a binder for virtually anything.  For instance, I have a binder that contains the warranties of household … Continue reading →

Holiday Time Crunch

Do you wait until January to craft holiday-themed layouts? I used to stock up on festive Christmas-themed embellishments, papers and memorabilia throughout the month of December, and then go into hiding during the first week of January to complete a marathon scrapbooking session.  However, my pages never turned out as well as I would have liked given my time crunch.  I felt pressure to slap together holiday memory albums just so I could cross it off my to-do list.  What’s more, I was extremely bothered by the idea of working on Christmas scrapbooks when Valentine’s Day was just around the … Continue reading →

Organization Is a Process

One of the things I have learned about having an organized home is that it’s a process.  I don’t think you ever really “arrive.”  There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is that the seasons of our life change.  The way I organized my home before I had children is much different than after I had them.  The way I organized my home when my children were small is much different than now as teens.  And eventually, I will be an empty nester with yet new ways to organize. The second reason is that we are constantly … Continue reading →

Kitchen Organizing for the Holidays

The fall is a great time to start thinking about the holidays, which are really just around the corner. I promise you, they will be here before you know it. So why not take some time this month to start prepping your kitchen? By cleaning and organizing it now, you will have a head start and prevent future stress. It’s actually a great time to organize your cabinets. Focus on one or two each weekend. But while you are doing that, you should also start keeping an inventory of what you have and what you need. For instance, if you … Continue reading →

The Best Way to Use Your Time – Part 3

In my last blog I talked about the importance of valuing your time. In today’s blog I am going to look at the best way to use your time. This is very important when you are running a home-based business. Have you ever given much thought to how you use your time? Do you have set hours when you work? That can be the key to being the most productive. But even for those who have set hours, we can find ourselves drifting off to other things. You know how that goes…throw in a load of laundry in, get dinner … Continue reading →

Five Ways to “Fire” Your Inner Procrastinator

One of the biggest issues many home business owners face is the ease by which they find themselves distracted from their work. I am certainly no exception, in fact, when it comes to procrastination, I think I may have one of the world’s most comprehensive lists of things that I can do to in lieu of whatever task I should actually be doing. Procrastination is a skill that I honed during my college years when I found that using a cotton swap to clean the dust from the grooves in my clock-radio was usually much more important than beginning the … Continue reading →