Archive Category: 'Organizing'

• How To Stock Home Essentials: Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with How to Stock Home Essentials: blockquote>A well-stocked pantry is like money in the bank: With the right long-lasting staples, you can take advantage of fresh, seasonal foods and impulse purchases or try a new recipe without having to scout out every last ingredient. You’ll save time, too, by pulling [...]
• Making A Coupon Organizer System – How To Guide: One of the most frugal, money-saving things you can do is utilize as many of the free coupons you have at your disposal as possible to cut costs on the products you use. You’ll never redeem each and every coupon that comes your way, but by keeping your coupons organized and at hand for when you [...]
• Kitchen Organizing Tip: Steamer Storage: Today’s feature is a clever tip from Martha Stewart with Steamer Storage: blockquote>Bamboo steamers have holes that let air in and out to cook food uniformly. For just that reason, these containers are also well suited to storing onions, garlic, and shallots, which require ventilation and should not be refrigerated. Place all three in a single [...]
• Tipnut’s Guide To Spring Cleaning: Here’s a peek at this year’s battle plan for the big Spring Clean in my home, I’ve also included references to homemade cleaner recipes, tips for specific cleaning jobs and assorted fix-it projects that will help make this year’s job a big success. Spring Cleaning Tips Mission: Clean – Declutter – Organize Every surface is cleaned, everything [...]
• Turn A Picture Frame Into A Remote Caddy: Today’s feature is from Lifehacker with Turn A Picture Frame Into A Remote Caddy: Reader Chris Bright had too many remotes from various A/V gadgets and no good place to store them. That lasted until he fashioned a picture frame and fabric into a DIY remote caddy… The end result is a polished looking caddy customized with [...]
• Beware Of Junk Bunkers: I know many of you are familiar with Don Aslett’s books about organizing, decluttering & cleaning–and I’m thrilled to be able to introduce his advice to Tipnut readers who have yet to discover his common sense (and often humorous) approach to taking back control of your living space. Here’s a special treat with an excerpt from [...]
• $5 DIY: Cabinet Door Recipe Message Center: Today’s feature is from This Young House with Somebody Put A Cork In Us…: We wanted to create a convenient little bulletin board in the kitchen to keep favorite recipes and meal ideas on hand (and on our mind- anything in a recipe book is so far out of sight that it’s immediately forgotten). But we [...]
• How to Cure PackRat-itis: Today’s feature is from ThinkSimpleNow with How to Cure PackRat-itis: How do you feel when sitting at home? Calm and peaceful, nestled in your neatly kept place? Or could your space use some love, organization and cleaning? If you fall into the former category, that’s awesome, skip the article and please share tips on how you keep [...]
• Pilers, Filers, and Messies: Home Organization Ideas: Today’s feature is from The Simple Mom with Pilers, Filers, and Messies: Home Organization Ideas. . . Karen has a different twist on organizing techniques — and her ideas and methods have helped me more than anything else I’ve read on this topic… Karen teaches that “Messies” are Pilers who are attempting to be Filers. She says [...]
• Plastic Bag Origami: Organizing Tip: Today’s feature is from Cafe Munchkin with Plastic Grocery Bag Origami: Here is where we keep our plastic grocery bags. We’ve got loads of it! This little cabinet used to be filled with plastic bags that we can no longer see the back. We even forgot that we kept phone directories here! [...]
• Get Organized Using Everyday Household Items: Today’s feature is from RealSimple with Get Organized Using Everyday Household Items: Take a look around you, and you’ll find familiar items that can easily be put to use organizing your life. Here are a few examples of the tips you’ll find: Use Nail Polish to Color-Code Keys Business Card Holder as Sugar Packet Carrier Laundry Bag as Dishwasher Item [...]
• Utilize Tight Spaces For A Clean Home: Today’s feature is an article from Homemade Simple with Utilize Tight Spaces For A Clean Home: We all have those small, oddly shaped “nooks and crannies” in our homes that usually end up being unusable or dead space. But you can bring those spaces to life and create extra storage space by being resourceful and creative. Steps [...]
• Make A Household Notebook: Ideas & Printables: With a binder or planner, some paper and a printer–you’ve got all you need to setup a complete household management hot spot: your Household Organizer (aka Household Notebook, Journal, or Planner). These are a great tool to keep your household chores, To Do lists, activities and notes organized. You may also find they help motivate you [...]
• 10 Projects To Help Organize Your Home: The Undercover Crate: Hmmm. I knew there had to be a way to pretty up those plastic stacking crates, check this out. Fabric liners/covers that keep the stackable function intact. Tutorial download is here: (pdf). DIY Sturdy Magazine Holders: I’ve seen lots of these made from cereal boxes but these are nice and sturdy made from [...]
• Good Things: $1 Desk Drawer Organizer: Today’s feature is a video with a tip for using a $1 plastic organizer to hold office supplies: The video’s a bit long but the gist of the idea is to pick up a plastic cutlery organizer that you would use in a kitchen drawer and use that for holding office supplies in your desk drawer. [...]
• Off Season Clothing Storage Ideas: If you’re getting ready to pack away the Spring & Summer wardrobe and pull out the Fall & Winter stuff, here are a few tips & ideas for finding storage space: Cube Shelving: We have small closets in our home but we do have a spare closet we can use for storage. I picked one of [...]
• Key Keepers & Why You Need One: Yesterday’s list of 12 Simple Ways To Smooth Out Your Mornings won’t help with starting your day right if you find yourself running from room to room digging in pockets or emptying purses and totes in a panic trying to find your keys. You need a key keeper so you always know just where your keys [...]
• Organizing Fabric: Folding Tips: Today’s feature is an update to include this video demonstrating how to fold your fabric stash neatly for organized storage: This folding method is very similar to Happy Zombie’s Fabric Folding: This is the fabric folding method I used in my re-do (BTW, not quite yet a re-DONE but I’m getting there!). Anyhoo I’m not sure if [...]
• 12 Simple Ways To Smooth Out Your Mornings: I think it’s true that our mornings set the tone for the day ahead, if you have a rushed and chaotic start–that seems to cling to you for at least the first few hours of the morning. Here are a dozen things we do in our home that help us start the day on a positive [...]
• 10 Easy Organizing Tricks For The Kitchen: Use plastic bins or tubs to hold all pouches of dry soup mixes, seasonings, etc. Keeps them neatly contained in one place, store in the pantry or cupboard. Insert kitchen reference charts and favorite recipes in clear plastic sleeves then hang on the inside of kitchen cupboard doors for easy access. They can easily be wiped [...]
• Do It Yourself Closet Organization: Today’s feature is a video packed with tips for closet organization: Tips From The Video: Lose the assortment of cheap hangers: Invest in good hangers, all uniform in size plus slack hangers, suit hangers. Purge closet: Donate & get rid of what you don’t need. Toss shoes! Clear storage boxes: Use clear plastic containers to contain off season items, [...]
• How To Organize A Junk Drawer: Today’s feature is a video showing how to effectively organize a junk drawer (and keep it organized!): Tips: Notice the large drawer size, a small drawer gets jam-packed too easily and makes it harder to keep things neat. Once you start packing things on top of each other, trouble starts brewing. Use small containers & bags to keep [...]
• Quick Tips For Organizing: Organize Pot Lids Neatly: Lids for pots and pans are tricky things to try and keep neatly organized. It never fails that the lid you’re needing is buried way in the back, hiding underneath a pan or two. A kitchen hack you can try is using a plain old dish rack. Just place the rack [...]
• Creative Tip Of The Day: Idea Rolodex: Today’s feature is from Carrie B of the Blah Blah Blog with her creation of the Idea Rolodex: Where to you store your great ideas? Do you tear out magazine articles and store them in a big binder? Do you jot down book recommendations and restaurants to try on Post-Its? Or do you [...]
• Organizing Tip Of The Day: Stylish Jewelry Storage: Today’s feature tip is from Martha Stewart with ideas for Stylish Jewelry Storage: Jewelry boxes can be handy, but they can also turn your prettiest baubles into unsightly nests of knots. Here are four display-worthy organizing ideas we’re sure you’ll take a shine to. There are a few suggestions for organizing and displaying jewelry, but my favorite [...]