Archive Category: 'Organizing'

• 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 [...]
• Hanging Pocket Tool Holder: Vintage Sewing Tutorial: Make A Tool Holder For The Kitchen It’s handy to put mother’s name on a few of the more ordinary type shop tools and keep them in the kitchen. Then, when she needs a screw driver, hammer, or a pair of pliers, she knows they are in a convenient place. Also, if the tool is nearby, [...]
• Beginner Guide to Pantry Organizing: Today’s feature is from Organized Home with Organized Pantry: Beginner Guide to Pantry Pride: It’s the secret weapon of a well-organized kitchen: a working pantry. A planned reserve of foodstuffs and sundries used in the. home, a pantry saves time, money and stress in the kitchen. Tap the pantry for unexpected meals and reduce trips to the [...]
• Simple Mom’s Daily Docket: Free Printable: Today’s feature is from Simple Mom with My Daily Docket is My Daily Lifesaver: My Daily Docket is a personalized form I made to help me manage my day at home. It’s my most often-used form in my Home Management Notebook, and it really works for me. You can download and save this printable to your computer [...]
• 10 Tips For Mastering A Messy Home: Living a clutter free and bare-bones minimized possessions lifestyle would be great and easy to manage in single or adult couple homes–but here are 10 practical tips for mess-free family sized living: Regularly Junk Hunt: Practice the 27 Fling Boogie made popular by FlyLady. Race through the house and grab 27 items to throw away. Then [...]
• Simple Tip For Organizing The Fridge: Today’s feature is from Susiej with a tip for how to Get More Space In Your Refrigerator: Put Loose jars in tubs. First you sort by type – Pickles go with sandwich spreads, Cream goes with Dairy. … Just pull out the box and quickly find what you need Saves me lots of stress. The idea is to sort all your jars and [...]
• Easy Organizing – 8 Tips For Storing Photos: Today’s feature tip is from Good Housekeeping with Easy Organizing: Photos: To keep precious memories on instant recall, first collect all the snaps that have been tossed into drawers or piled up in stacks. Then do a serious sorting-out job, ditching all but the best, and store the rest in archival-quality boxes and albums. Tips include: Be [...]
• Simple Budget Organization Method That Works: Never forget to pay a bill, be surprised by a forgotten annual payment or bounce a cheque again! Today’s tip is an addon to yesterday’s Household Inbox System and the beauty is in its simplicity. No matter how complicated or numerous your monthly bills are, it’s a no-fail method to having all of your financial obligations [...]
• Home Management Tip: Household Inbox System: There are all kinds of tools, software and gadgets available to help remind you about your household’s pending items and bills that are due, but here’s a simple system I use that keeps things running smoothly. Household Inbox System Setup Household Inbox: One basket or inbox that serves as the primary holding spot for all incoming and “To [...]
• Organizing Tip Of The Day: Recycling Center: Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart for a Cheap & Easy Recycling Center: Wide, interlocking bins with open faces and tops make it easy to sort recyclable goods. Screw metal label holders to the front of each bin with stove bolts; attach the bottom bin to a wide dolly with utility-drawer latches, available at hardware stores. [...]
• Ideal Week Planning Sheet: Today’s feature is from Organizing Without Agonizing sharing a tip for planning the week ahead using a Planning Sheet: Creating an ideal weekly plan can help you have what I call “life rhythm”. Periodically I design my “ideal week” as a target to shoot for. I realize that there will be changes, but deciding what is the [...]
• Tip: Index Card Shopping Master: Have you ever dashed out to the office supply store for printer ink, but forgot the shopping list at home that noted the printer make and model? Or you’re at the store picking up milk when you see there’s an in-store coupon for a big mark down on batteries–you remember that the tv remote seems [...]
• 5 Easy Steps To Clutter Free Living: Today’s feature tip is from BohemianRevolution with 5 Steps To Declutter Your Home: Getting rid of clutter is wonderful, but sometimes you get overwhelmed, take a break, and end up accumulating more clutter before you can get back to the original clutter. Your cleaning effort suddenly dies of frustration, and the situation is no better than [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Pot Lid Taming Options: Here’s a hot tip sent in from Sarah (website SarahAnnSmith.com) that gives a couple new ideas for organizing pot lids (you know — those things that get jumbled up and hide in the cupboards and drawers). This is the newest addition to the Tipnut Mailbag section: Pot Lid Taming Options: Use the spring-tension curtain rods! Run them [...]
• Pantry Organizing With Tote Baskets: Today’s feature is from Brandi Ginn with an example of how to Organize A Pantry With Tote Baskets: At first I thought that was the craziest thing I’d ever seen…what a WASTE of space. The baskets alone take up so much room! Well I’m here to say…that was way wrong! I had the problem of things [...]
• Repurposing Biscuit Tins – Organizing Ideas & Craft Projects: It seems this time of year I’m swimming in biscuit tins, but I’m not complaining since they’re such great organizing tools! Plus the crafts you can make with them are gorgeous and not that difficult to manage–you can go as simple or as elaborate as you like. These tins are also known as cookie tins or [...]
• Christmas Decorations Packing Tip: Today’s feature is from My Family Loves It with a quick tip for Storing Christmas Decorations: A couple years ago we bought one of those inflatable outdoor Christmas decorations. Setting up the decoration was easy and the kids loved it. What I didn’t like was untangling the tied down strings the following year! I tried wrapping [...]
• Hours of Operation at Your Fingertips: Quick, tell me what time your bank opens and closes on Mondays? What about Fridays? How about the video store…does it close at 11 p.m. on Wednesdays or is that Sundays? The places of business I frequent on a regular basis have different hours of operation on different days and this can be quite the trick [...]
• Create A Craft Idea Digital Catalog File: Here’s a simple way to keep track of all those great projects and ideas you come across online, no special software necessary! Create a folder on your computer: Craft Ideas Inside that folder, create a folder for each category: Christmas, Easter, Gifts, Quilting, Sewing, Crochet (whatever works for you) Place a text file in each folder named: Index Whenever [...]
• Party Planning Tips: Maintain a Party File: Each time you entertain a large gathering of friends or hold a family bbq, maintain a Party File and keep a record of: Number of people that attended (specify how many children, how many adults) The type of event it was (a baby shower, anniversary dinner, Christmas party, etc.) The quantity and details of each item served (example: [...]
• Ideas for Organizing Recipes: Whether or not you’re a serious recipe collector, organizing recipes in an efficient manner can be challenging. You have a few goals to accomplish, recipes need to be: Easy to find Easy to add to Easy to browse Kept clean (ideally) There are dozens of different ways to collect and organize recipes on a computer via software or online applications, but [...]
• Organize Sewing Rooms & Craft Supplies – Buncha Links: Many of these ideas for organizing craft & sewing supplies (and the rooms that contain them) are great ideas. Bonus: Many of the suggestions are inexpensive or easy enough to put together. But get ready to drool, the example sewing rooms (or craft studios) I’ve included for inspiration are very beautiful and well done! Tips, Ideas & [...]
• Use Vintage Glass Items For Desk Organizers: Instead of using plastic desk top organizers and paper clip holders, etc., try prettying the place up by using old glass jars and trinket boxes. Garage sales offer plenty of vintage pieces that aren’t worth much and sell for a quarter or two, but they’re pretty! Ideas: Cute little porcelain trinket boxes for storing paper clips, push pins [...]
• Cool Freezer Food Tracking Tip: Today’s feature tip is from Lunchinabox with the tip Make Magnets To Track Freezer Inventory: A number of my speedy lunch tips involve making food ahead of time and freezing it in individual portions to throw into a packed lunch. Keeping track of what’s in your freezer is key to being able to cycle through it [...]