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Imagine your child saying to you, “Mom, can I help around the house?” How do you encourage your kids to pitch in and pick up? This complete system empowers children age 4-18 to do their fair share — while teaching essential life-skills like responsibility, self-sufficiency, confidence, and a sense of belonging and value within the family.
Each kit comes with a 136-page spiral-bound parent workbook — chock full of forms, templates, and step-by-step instructions for setting up your family’s chore system. Filled with real life examples, expert recommendations, and practical advice — you will know exactly what works and doesn’t work with your age and personality of your child.
You also get a comprehensive inventory of more than 80 common household tasks, age-appropriate chore lists and guidelines for skill development– plus tons of blank forms and templates for developing your home’s inventory of household tasks, family mission statement, house rules, a behavior agreement, guidelines and expectations, and more.
SALE: $31.46
Keeping up a family’s busy schedule can be difficult, unless you use Franklin Covey’s Family.agenda™ by Buttoned Up.
Each month has one page for capturing basic schedule information, a second page with a month-at-a-glance for marking so you can see how busy (or not) your month will be, and a weekly agenda to ensure you never miss an appointment – from the board room to the soccer field.
This durable, agenda-sized, perfectly bound notebook has rounded edges and ribbon placeholder to mark and easily find a specific page. The book has 150 pages, with 12 undated months so you can start to use it anytime of the year! Each month has three sections to keep the entire family organized: Family schedule (for recurring appointments), Month-at-a-glance, and Week-at-a-glance. The Family.agenda™ also includes weekly organizational and sanity saving tips from Buttoned Up® as an added bonus.
Features:
• 12 undated months (150 pages)
• Durable, agenda-sized, perfect bound notebook with rounded edges and ribbon placeholder
• 3 sections per month: Family Schedule, Month-at-a-glace, Week-at-a-glance
• Weekly organizational and sanity saving tips from Buttoned Up®
SALE: $6.47
- children’s art supplies or toy collections
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tools, nuts and bolts
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craft supplies
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bath and beauty supplies
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pet supplies
- gardening supplies
SALE: $24.26
Getting kids to do chores can be difficult without clear direction, and with the Chore.pad™, you can give each child their own list and specify what you would like them to do, just by checking off a chore from one of the four categories: Inside, Outside, Pets, or Everyday. There are even blank spots to write some of your own.
This great pad also contains a Thank You category to show them you appreciate their hard work. SALE: $3.47
Today I’d like you to walk around your house like you are a visitor. Go to each door and peek in like you’re getting a tour of the house. How does your home feel? Does it feel comfortable? Is it embarrassing? Do you have white walls or warm, inviting colors on the walls? Is there a comfortable amount of clutter or is the clutter piling up?
Then, I want you to sit down and write out how you would like your house to look and how you would like your house to feel. Do you want it to feel cozy and inviting? Do you want it to feel neat and calm? Do you want to have systems in place to find things easily? Do you want to have guests over? Do you want your home to feel like an oasis after a long day at work?
Now use this list as your motivation to make change happen! Keep this list as motivation as your energy levels lag over time. Because you can make things happen! You can start working on your home one room at a time and just one space at a time. You can do it for 1 hour, you can do it for 15 minutes, whatever you have in you!
If you are feeling overwhelmed, please click on my post about organizing through a toilet paper tube. Sound weird? Then check it out! 
Tags: DIY organization, home, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, house, Motivational Monday
Admit it, you’re busy, you’re tired and you feel guilty about taking a nap. Don’t feel guilty. You just lay your pretty little head to the pillow and get some sleep-you need it, you want it, you deserve it! Does your husband have a problem sitting down to watch a game when he needs a break? Let me answer for you, “No.” I know, I know, you have five million other things that need to be done. Who knows how long ago the blinds were dusted for Pete’s Sake. Who cares? Go take a nap.
When I was a SAHM for 11 years, I kept busy, by fellow SAHM friends kept busy. But sometimes too busy. Sometimes I noticed there was guilt over reading a book or taking a nap. Well, you know what? Your work, your home, your kids are a 24/7 job, so if one of the perks is getting in a nap when you’re exhausted, then embrace the nap or the cup of coffee or the run or the bubble bath, whatever it is you need.
If you don’t take these breaks, then guess what? Burn out. Irritation. Grumpy Gus. Resentment. All because you wouldn’t take a nap. 
Seriously though, make sure you take 5, 10, 30 when you need it. At work there are mandatory breaks and mandatory lunch breaks, you now have a mandatory nap break, because I said so (see, I’m a mom).
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY AND BLESS YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!!
Tags: balance, DIY organization, Happy Mother's Day, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog
You’re probably asking, “Extra time, what’s that?” I know, I know, you may have to draw deep into fantasyland here to grasp this one, just let yourself indulge for a moment.
Well, today I urge you to write a short list of a few things you would like to do with extra time. Now don’t overwhelm yourself with some giant list that goes back to finishing the baby books. Maybe it’s sleep, maybe it’s going for walks, maybe it’s reading a book or taking a bubble bath OR reading in a bubble bath-gasp!
The reason that I want you to think about it and write it down, is because sometimes we don’t really know what we would do with ourselves. And when we don’t know what we would do, then we just keep doing what we’ve been doing: twitter, facebook, email, mindless tasks, procrastinating, making tasks take longer than they should.
But if you know how you would rather spend your time, this can give you the motivation you need to become more efficient, get out of your rut and maybe even start delegating some things so you can have time for the things that you want to do!
So take the time today to think about what you’d like to do tomorrow and start structuring your days and your time to make that happen! The things I would like to do with my time are: more reading, more exercising, more time with my kids & boyfriend and more fun!
Tags: balance, DIY organization, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, time management
WOW, what an awesome feeling! Yesterday I was on quite the kick organizing my already organized office. I already have systems in place, I have labeled files and drawer dividers, I have a label maker and I have extra shelves in my office closet for supplies. But, yesterday I went on a rampage and no paper clip was left unturned, no envelope left untouched.
I was in the “mood,” I was in the “zone,” and I was re-evaluating everything I have in my office. So, it went a little something like this:
- I consolidated supplies like notecards & envelopes and even got rid of my “least favorite” pens (they can live in the kitchen).
- I used up specialty paper by creating marketing materials with them.
- I got rid of resource books I no longer want, craft organizing-eck.
- I went through my files and was brutal about getting rid of class material I no longer plan on presenting as well as marketing materials I’m not going to use.
- I re-organized some of my business files so files I access more often are at the front instead of in alphabetical order. A little unorthodox for me, but they are labeled so I know if will be more efficient for me in the long-run.
- Best yet, the delete button was my best friend for computer files! List of auction items that I donated that are expired-Deleted! List of books I was going to read someday-Deleted! A file full of teleclasses I was going to listen to someday-DELETED!!
I do practice what I preach and let me tell you, it feels great. I want to simplify, I want to streamline, I want to feel lighter and not feel guilty about the stuff I haven’t gotten done: I deleted it-oh hell ya! I want to use the time that I save for things I want to do, which includes fun!
Don’t forget to delete today!
Tags: DIY organization, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, office organizing
I just finished reading a really awesome book (that my business partner actually helped write!), called “Dotcom” Secrets by Russell Brunson & Matt D. Murren. It’s a book directed at business owners but it includes good goal-setting advice that can apply to any area of our business, homes or lives that we may be changing.
One of the authors had an opportunity to listen to Tony Robbins speak about the difference between tactics and strategy. I found it interesting to read about goal setting presented in a little different way so I want to showcase the concept today.
Tactics
Tactics are the tasks that you do every day, the little tasks.
Strategy
When you employ a strategy, you take a step back to take a look at the big picture. You ask yourself, “What strategies can I implement to make my tactics (the small tasks) more successful? Even better, you outsource or delegate the small tasks to someone else if you can.
So how can you use strategies and tactics to get organized?
Let’s use getting the kitchen organized as our example for today.
Strategy or Big Picture:
- Create an organized and efficient kitchen.
- Clear counters for food preparation.
- Maintain and restore order quickly.
Tactics:
- Hire a professional organizer or work with an organized friend to declutter the kitchen.
- Let go of excess belongings from counters, drawers, cupboards and pantry.
- Place items of the same type together in organizing bins, baskets or holders.
- Label the “homes” for kitchen items so everyone in the family will know where things go.
- Make sure everyone in the house knows where things go.
- Assign family members duties like cleaning out the dishwasher to help keep the kitchen clean and running smoothly.
- Hire a housekeeping service if needed to maintain the kitchen and/or occasional deep cleaning sessions.
This is just another way to think about goals and creating smaller steps that break down the process and make it easier to accomplish your goals, organizing or other!
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