Organizing is simply as means to an end
I love my Pug. And I’m sure you love your pet too! Around my house, we take turns feeding and walking Cody. The food and treats are kept together in the kitchen, the leash and poop bags in the hall closet. He has a bed in the family room, that’s cleverly tucked behind a chair so [...]
Since it’s National Clean out Your Closet Week, I thought I’d put all the My Organized Lifestyle closet posts in one place to simplify the purging and organizing process. Enjoy! Wardrobe Change: Organizing Your Closet Six steps to cleaning out and straightening up the tiny room you start and end your day in. Make it a [...]
Whether you work from home or run a household, here are simple steps to becoming more effective in your office: – Eliminate Excess—surround yourself with what’s relevant and inspiring, especially if you’re in a smaller space. – Set up an effective Filing System—Purge last year’s docs. Box them up. You want your files to reflect [...]
Black Friday is the start of the holiday shopping season. If you’re beginning to feel a little stressed out because the Christmas holiday is just around the corner, print this checklist from Smead to get yourself on track starting right after Thanksgiving. Make it the best holiday season ever! Holiday Planning Checklist
I have it on good authority that if you’re hopping around this holiday season from house-to-house, you would be best to use travel packing cubes. Pack the cubes with pants, shirts, and socks/undies in another. Zip the cubes and load them into your suitcase. When you reach each destination, you can easily remove the cubes, [...]
One of the challenges every parent faces, at some point, is how to get kids to help put their clean laundry in the proper places. For adults, it may be easy to remember that socks and underwear go in the top drawer and pants in the bottom, but for kids who are just learning (or [...]
I hung a life-saver of a product on the back of the bathroom door recently. The Clever Pockets helped us clear the bathroom vanity, which makes “cleaning” much easier. We are using the Floral Black mini stash in my daughter’s bathroom. Surprisingly, there are still two empty pockets! What I love about this product is that is’t [...]
Some houses have an entryway with a closet and others don’t. Your main “entryway” for the family may be the back or side entrance that doesn’t have a closet at all. Whatever the circumstances, busy families need a dropping point for things that come and go every day, such as jackets, book bags, keys and [...]
I want to feel like Carrie when I enter my closet. Don’t you? Hey, we start and end our days in the closet. It’s where we choose what we’ll wear to head out into the world. How do we make it a great space? Simple… Unless you have a ginormous closet, you want to remove all [...]
Remember Carrie Bradshaw’s closet? The walk-through that housed her funky stylish clothing in her tiny New York apartment. Or how about the super duper closet Carrie wound up with in her apartment when she finally married Big. So most of probably don’t have either one of these closets. However, there are a few ways to [...]
