Remember how we spent last year organizing our home and sorting through all of our closets and cupboards? We haven't gone back to our old ways but it has been hard passing up free piles of junk on the street corner or estate sale treasurers. The house does have more breathing room and fewer piles… Continue reading Home Organization Tips with List of Weekly Projects
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Our Year Long Home Organization Project and Having Less Stuff
The results are in from last year's home organization project and our goal to have less stuff. The verdict? I'm thrilled. The space is glorious. Drawers are opening and closing without bursting. Much like space in the margins of a book - or a website not being too cluttered - that's what it looks like.… Continue reading Our Year Long Home Organization Project and Having Less Stuff
Home Organization Project 52
Finally! The last week of our year long home organization project. It's been a long year, hasn't it? Time for another New Year and all of the resolutions that get made. We won't be doing year-two of this decluttering madness, I promise. Home Organization Project 52 This week’s project. Travel gear - luggage, bags, and… Continue reading Home Organization Project 52
Home Organization Project 51
Question: How can you tell when it's time to clean out, organize, and sort through household files? Answer: When you go to file something and the drawer breaks because it's too full. Yes, for this week's home organization project - yes, that's week #51 of our weekly home organization project - we did our household… Continue reading Home Organization Project 51
Home Organization Project 50
We've waited until the gift giving time of year for this week's home organization project and to straighten out all of our gift wrapping stuff. It's not just the Christmas season that we're wrapping gifts for - in our house, it's the birthday season, too. From mid-November to mid-January, everyone in our family has a… Continue reading Home Organization Project 50
Home Organization Project 49
For week #49 of 2014's New Year's Resolution - yes, every week we've cleaned and sorted out a different area of the house - we're going where very few have gone before - behind the gingham curtain! Yes, I put up a gingham curtain to hide the contents on our basement shelves. No, it's not… Continue reading Home Organization Project 49
Home Organization Project 48
When you decorate for a holiday only once a year, do you ever forget about what decorations you have? Then, when you get everything out, does it seem like everything is new and pretty? That's what happened to me this week. Oh, look how beautiful these are! I forgot we had these! Where did these… Continue reading Home Organization Project 48
Home Organization Project 47
Remember the pile of magazines from last week's home organization week #46 project? Well, that's what we tackled for this week's project. We get more print magazines now than ever before. Are you wondering why in the age of digital would we get more print magazines? Our local newspaper went from delivering the paper 7-days… Continue reading Home Organization Project 47
Home Organization Project 46
It's not really fair to blame this week's home organization project on a jar of homemade jam, but I'm going to do it anyway. It all began this summer when we made jam - and for once we canned it instead of making freezer jam. We needed jam (kids and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches… Continue reading Home Organization Project 46
Home Organization Project 45
Hello home organization weekly project #45. You're even dustier than last week's kitchen cabinet clean out. While I'm calling this week's project 'home entertainment,' this is straight out of the '80s and '90s. The VCR machine - yes, we still have one - and VHS movies but also a few DVDs that we'll never watch.… Continue reading Home Organization Project 45
Go Gingham 