Organizing Your Closet

So this past week my 90 year old dad moved out of his 91 year old lady friend’s house. They “needed a break”. Turns out he’s decided to move in with us, which is cool. As we were setting up his bedroom, I noticed how different he is from me and my family. My dad […]

5 Tips for Organizing

Are you as obsessed with organizing as I am? I love to read about it and find new tips to try. And while I’m not always so happy to actually do the work, I do enjoy the results. One thing that I read recently said that you can’t organize your home unless it’s clean. I […]

Get Your Clean On

Two days from now my daughter and sweet grandson will be arriving for a visit. I can’t wait! I have the pantry stocked and the downstairs is looking pretty good, thanks in large part to my husband, who is tireless. The guest bedroom, however, has not yet recovered from it’s most recent guest – my […]

10 Second Projects

Take a look around you. How many little things are piled up around your house? And by little things I mean the ones that would only take seconds to take care of or clean up. For instance, right now there are numerous tools in my kitchen floor and on the counter. A quick pick up, […]

1 Plan + 1 Hour = More Organized

With the right plan, an hour or so, and some stick to it-ness, your house can become more organized and less cluttered. Now I’m not saying one hour will get the whole house done – who are you? Superwoman? What I am saying is that setting aside about an hour’s worth of time a couple […]

The 15 Minute Sweep

Do you remember the movie “The Stepmom“? There was a scene in that movie that was a revelation for me. No, not when Susan Sarandon’s character found out she had cancer or when she realized she was going to have to accept Julia Roberts character as her children’s step-mom. Nope. It was when she had […]