How to Reorganize You Life After the Holidays

I find having a list of things to do, helps actually get things done!
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Some sites to check out: Spring Cleaning

This site has Monthly Checklists, so you can clean and organize on a daily basis, without feeling overwhelmed.

This site has tons of tips, lists and articles about organizing everything in your home.

This site has tips to keep you organized on your way out of the house.

This site tells you how to clean clutter with a yard sale.

Mrs. Clean has some good tips on organizing your house.

This site has checklists for the 5 Core Life Zones.

Clean Home Journal has printable checklists for every room of the house.

Home Makeover Madness

This site has a clickable house to get cleaning tips for any room of your house.

Happy Clicking!

A Room A Day

So, I've decided that maybe cleaning and organizing one room a day, makes a little sense. Well, it will be a little more than one room a day. I still have to do dishes & laundry everyday. And the other everyday stuff like picking up things off the floor, etc.

Yesterday, I cleaned and organized my Master Bedroom & closet.

Today, since I did the grocery shopping, it doesn't leave me much time, so I will pick it up again tomorrow.

Tomorrow I plan on cleaning and organizing our familyroom/playroom/exercize-room/office, whatever you want to call it!

{I have been babysitting a 5 month old baby since January and it has made cleaning and organizing more difficult, but this is my last week to keep him. He is going into daycare, so next week, I will have PLENTY of time on my hands =D }

Master Bedroom and Closet

It's funny how one tip on cleaning or organizing can set you off to clean the entire day in one room.

My Master Bedroom is Always the messiest room in the house.
For many reasons;
1. I hate folding and putting up laundry.
2. I have so much stuff in there.
3. It's not a room that company sees, so it gets dropped to the end of the cleaning list most of the time.

So while browsing the Internet for some good organizing tips, I stumbled upon THIS PAGE. Why #17 had never occurred to me, is amazing, but it hadn't. So when I read it, I had to immediately go and start cleaning in my closet, which spread out into my bedroom.

So I went to bed with a very clean room last night, and I slept better! And my hubby was really happy this morning when he didn't have to dig through clothes baskets to get dressed! =D

One thing I REALLY want for this room, is a new comforter set. I just haven't found the one I LOVE yet.

10 Tips For Better Bedroom Organization: Little Girls Rooms

Here are a few tips that I've used in my toddler girl's bedroom.

1. To always know where her shoes are, I throw them all in a big plastic tote. I keep the tote in the closet. There's the clothes and there's the shoes.

Now if you think it would take too much time to get a matching pair out, you can always use my second choice for shoes. This inexpensive, over the door organizer. I got this in a cute pink color at my local Wal Mart and it cost less than $10. Right now, we have too many shoes to use this option. [But. You could also use the door organizer to hold other stuff ... like, small toys, crafts, hair bows, whatever!]

2. She had a very large collection of purses. I keep all of them in a large tote also. It keeps them together and takes less space to store than if they were hanging on something like over-the-door hooks.

3. I have this multiple hook over the door holder that I hang her belts, diaper bag and jackets on. It keeps them all off the floor and out of her reach. This is her bedroom door.

4. Then I have these hooks that I put her bulkier coats on. This is the closet door.

5. This shelf is high above where she cannot reach, so it's the best place to put this earring holder. I use this earring holder so that I do not have to keep up with countless boxes or card stock the earrings come on. And we can see every choice of earring we have.

6. This shelf is below the earring one, but still out of reach. The round basket holds all her hats. The square hold hair bows that do not clip/cannot hang.

7. I made this hair bow holder when our collection of hair bows got too big to be digging through a Ziploc bag for.

8. This stuffed animal net is perfect for those toys that she doesn't actually play with, but have too much sentimental value to get rid of.

9. All her toys go into certain cubes. Horses in one, dolls in another, etc. It may seem easier to just pick toys up and put them in whatever cube, but with a toddler, if she can't find a toy she's looking for, what does she do? She pulls everything out until she finds it.

10 . Needless to say, as soon as we're done using a coat, hair bow, hat, etc. we always put it right back into the "home" of the item.

I hope you find some of these tips useful. And feel free to share any of your own tips too!

Daphne