I’ve just added three new decluttering and organizing articles to the articles page which I hope you’ll enjoy:
How to Get Started on Decluttering Your Home
How to Declutter the Kitchen
Decorator-Style Organizing
Don’t miss the existing articles by Stephanie Roberts, author of Clutter-free Forever, also available on the articles page.
Keep one main central calendar for the whole family, where everyone can see it and write on it. Each person can have their own personal calendar too, of course, but EVERYTHING should go on the central calendar as soon as someone knows about it.
Only time-dependent activities and tasks should go on your calendar. If [...]
Toys with lots of small parts (like LEGO and other construction toys) are an ongoing storage and organization problem. The pieces tend to spread themselves about during play, and then it takes a long time to gather them all up to put them away. And if you’ve ever stepped on a LEGO brick on the [...]
No matter how much you love books, eventually you’ll have too many (unless you plan to move them into their own house and found a library!).
Good places to donate books are: your local library (make sure they can use them), shelters, schools, daycare programs, literacy programs, hospitals, hostels, and of course used book stores.
Ways to [...]
Merlin Mann of 43folders has an excellent thread on ways of getting rid of clutter – not just throwing it away, but recycling and reusing in ways that are environmentally responsible and useful to others.
http://www.43folders.com/2007/07/04/clutter-reuse-vox-pop/
very definitely worth a read!
Lots of us keep important reference information and papers in many different places – by the phone, on the fridge or bulletin board, in the file cabinet, in a desk or kitchen drawer – it’s hard to keep track of them all!
Maybe you’d benefit by setting up some reference binders. What you need for each [...]
Some kind of a system and routine is essential to keep our financial lives under control and the bills paid on time.
First, what happens when bills, receipts and other financial items arrive in your house? Have a specific place to put them all, every time: I keep a dedicated in-box (actually a cardboard tray!) and [...]
Your brain is not a good place to store things. The more things you try to remember, the more stress builds up.
Have a place to record things: planner, index cards, voice recorder, PDA or computer. Have a way to get things you’ve recorded, into your system: use an inbox of some kind. Use routines or [...]
