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Got clutter and need to hide it? Now, of course I can’t recommend shoving everything in a box and hiding it in the closet now can I? That wouldn’t be very professional organizer of me, but I do know that we all have paper and stuff that we need to keep but we don’t necessarily need or want to look at it 24/7. So here are 5 quick and dirty ways to camouflage clutter:
Mask the Mail
Make it look like it actually belongs on the counter by placing it in an attractive basket until you can process your mail. I always say, “Place it where you pile it.”
Organize.com
Spice up Action Folders
Place papers that you need to take action on (such as bills to pay) in decorative file folders. This is actually mine from my office from Staples.
Folders from Staples
Close the Door on Clutter
Again, I can’t condone shoving stuff behind closed doors, BUT if you have items you are using and you don’t want to see them all at once, consider storing those items behind cupboard doors like this one from Home Depot.
Smuggle it in Solid Baskets & Bins
If you’re anything like me, you don’t like to see all of your stuff at once. In my family room, I tuck my DVD’s in a basket from Ikea so I see the basket when I walk into the family room, not the DVD’s. Consider using attractive baskets or solid color bins instead of clear bins.
Solid Bin from Organize.com
Attractive Baskets from Organize.com
Banish it to a Box
Office supplies, small tools, light bulbs and batteries aren’t attractive, but you can hide them in boxes that are-yeah! Look for boxes that fit your decor, taste and budget.
Box from Organize.com
Box from Organize.com
It is A-OK to dress up your paper and your stuff and turn clutter into an attractive keeper! But if you’ve got clutter that actually needs to take a hike, here are 5 decluttering tips to help you get it out!
Tags: decluttering tips, DIY organization, home, Home Depot, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, organize.com, Staples
Dress up days in my house are long-over, but recently a good friend called me asking about dress up clothing storage as a gift for her two nieces. She had something very specific in mind that she was on the hunt for: a plastic storage container so she could paint a design on the outside and it had to have a hinged lid. It was the hinged lid that made it tricky because all bins I’ve seen have a separate lid. So, I was up for the challenge! In doing my research, I came across a variety of ideas that could work for storing storing dress up clothes so I thought I would share my favorites.
In general, I do not like toy box type storage as it turns into a black hole, but I do think it’s OK to use large bins for storing one type of item vs. a bunch of different toys. So, here are my top 4 and the links to the sites should you want one of your very own.
Kroom Storage Trunk through Amazon
KidKraft Storage Unit through OneStepAhead
DIY Dress Up Option from the site: ohdeedoh
The the final one that was plastic AND a hinged lid….
Woot woot for Organize.com
So there you have it, if you have play dress up clothes for your kids, you’ve now got some solutions! Easy access to hours of dress up fun!
Tags: Amazon, DIY organization, home, Home Organization, KidKraft, kids organizing, ohdeedoh, OneStepAhead, organize.com, Organizing Products
We are currently gearing up to place organizing products for availability on our website-I am SO excited! I have personally chosen all of the items as organizing products that I would recommend or am currently using with my own clients. I am so excited to be able to offer the combination of regular organizing posts with organizing tips & advice AND products for your own organizing projects!
Keep an eye out-coming soon!
Tags: DIY organization, home, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, Organizing Products, organizing projects, organizing tips
Get Your Gear Cards
If you’ve got kids, then chances are you’ve got kids’ activities which requires gear that needs to be packed up and hauled around. And I know from personal experience that it really stinks to get to the field and realize something has been left at home! Organizing kids for their own activities is a great way to teach your kids organizing skills that will last a lifetime. I recently read about these awesome cards created by a professional organizer in Better Homes and Gardens from Simply Ordered that will help you do just that.
There are a variety of cards for different activities that show all of the items that need to be packed accompanied by the names of the items which will help little ones with their reading skills-bonus! It’s a ready-made list and it doesn’t get any easier than that!
Help your kids get organized and shoulder some responsibility for having their gear together and helping you get out the door on time-it’s a win/win!
Tags: Better Homes and Gardens, DIY organization, get organized, Get Your Gear Cards, home, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, organizing kids, Organizing Products, professional organizer, Simply Ordered
Let me share 10 reasons with you why going from this:
To this rocks!
Organized Garage!
When you are organized:
1) You greatly reduce your stress level! Every time you can’t find what you need it causes stress. Every time you walk past an area that you know you should be organizing, it causes stress.
2) You can find what you need! Imagine that! You can get your hands right on the items you are loooking for: sweet!
3) You save money. When you can’t find what you need, you go out and buy another one. Now you’ve spent money on something you already have ‘somewhere.’
4) You reduce duplicates. When you know what you have and how to find it, you will reduce the need to run out and buy another one which creates even more cluttter-nooooo!
5) You can use your space. It’s awesome that this garage can now be used for the family to play ping pong and they can even pack up their camping gear easily for a family trip!
6) You can invite people into your home. You won’t have to run around closing door and shoving stuff in closets before company comes. You can invite people into your home without being embarrassed!
7) You can protect your belonging that have meaning to you. You don’t want your special treasures buried beneath a pile of stuff that doesn’t have meaning to you-no way!
8) Your home can be your haven. Wouldn’t it be nice to come home and feel good there? I think so.
9) You can showcase belongings that show what your interests are. When your home is cluttered, nothing stands out. But when you declutter and get organized, you can easily see the items that reflect your personality.
10) You don’t have to feel guilty that you haven’t gotten organized and you will no longer have to feel overwhelmed by your stuff!
These are all awesome reasons to get organized and you may have few of your own-I’d love to hear what they are! If you need help getting organized, please consider my decluttering video that will show you have to get organized on your own easily, step-by-step!
Tags: decluttering video, DIY organization, get organized, home, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, organized garage, overwhelmed
Silver Mesh CD Box from Storables
Do you have CD’s floating all over the place? On your desk, on your bookshelves, next to your computer, piled up on top of your CD player perhaps? You can easily and quickly tackle media organization with this attractive mesh CD box from Storables; for $6.95 you can’t pass that up! Here are 4 diy organizing tips to help you get the job done quickly!
Media Organizing Tip #1: Gather your CD’s from all of their hiding spots and get them all in one place.
Media Organizing Tip #2: Now that you’ve got everything together in one place, you can see just how much you have accumulated. Now is the time to crack down on how much you are going to keep. Do you still listen to it? Do you still need it? Is it time to let it go?
Media Organizing Tip #3: Now that you’ve purged your collection, you can shop for the number of CD boxes you will need to hold your remaining collection.
Media Organizing Tip #4: Load up your lovely boxes, place them on shelves and admire your newly organized collection!
Your Home Organization Expert-Monika
Tags: DIY organization, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, media organization, organized, organizing tips, Storables
To Do List
As you’re going through your day, do you keeping adding just one more thing to your to do list? Maybe you’re out running errands and you just want to make ‘one more’ stop. Possibly you want to squeeze in ‘one more’ household chore while you’re on a roll. You may be at the mall and want to run into ‘one more’ store, real quick. But what happens to our balance when we keep trying to squeeze in one more thing? It gets thrown off. It’s great to have a to do list to keep you focused, it’s great to check things off our lists, but we need to be reasonable about just how many to do’s we have on our daily list. If you keep adding on, you will take time away from something else in your day, possibly family time, reading time, exercise time, whatever it may be for you.
When you create a to do list follow these 5 organizing tips to help you get things done:
1) Keep it short. If you have a long to-do list, make it your “master” list.
2) Write down 3-5 items from your master list and create a “stubby’ to do list. This is more reasonable then a never-ending list AND it gives you a sense of accomplishment when you can cross each thing off and complete your list for the day!
3) Estimate how long each task will take you to complete, including drive time. This will help you be more realistic about how much you can get done.
4) Batch your tasks together if you can. For example, run several errands that are all located in one shopping center so you save on drive time & gas.
5) Choose the highest priority items from your master list each day so you know you are knocking out the most important tasks on your list.
Improve your life balance by being kind to yourself when you create lists that are reasonable and ‘doable!” Please read more on how to make choices for life balance here.
Tags: Balance-Family, DIY organization, home, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, organizing tips, Self, time management, To Do list, work
Cluttered Table
When a space goes from this, to this:
Uncluttered Table
Then you probably want it to stay that way. After all, you did all that work! First, let me remind you that organizing is a process it is not an event. This means you will have a lovely, clear table with a pretty pot of flowers on it. But it doesn’t magically stay that way. We live in our homes, we use our homes and we get stuff out. And that is OK; that’s why we have homes, they are to live in! Once you clear that table, you will just need to continue the process by staying organized or restoring order when things do get a bit messy as they most likely will.
Here are 5 organizing tips to keep you on top of your game!
1) If you get something out, put it away. That may sound pretty basic, but it’s common for people to get something out and then leave it out which contributes to clutter.
2) Make time to restore order, whether that’s once a week or 15 minutes at the end of every day. If you don’t make time, it won’t get done.
3) Write down why you want to get organized in the first place and revisit that from time to time. This will help keep you motivated to maintain your system!
4) Tweak your system as needed. Set up an organizing system to the best of your ability at the time you are organizing. As you use it, don’t be afraid to make changes if something isn’t working. This isn’t a failure, this is making your system work for you!
5) Don’t bring more into your space then your space can handle. If you don’t have room, either don’t bring it in or let something else go to create space.
For more tips on how to get a handle on your clutter to stay organized, please read more here. Have an awesome day!!
Tags: clutter, DIY organization, home, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, order, organized, organizing
When it comes to home organization, it takes two things to make it happen: 1) Decrease the amount of stuff that you have. 2) Increase your storage space. Sometimes you have to be a little bit creative when it comes to stretching your space, look up, look down, look all around! If you need a little bit of help, here are 10 ways to stretch your space:
1) Look up and use the ceiling such as with this great overhead storage unit for the garage. Stuff over, car under.
2) Use hooks on the wall to maximize storage. Great for garden tools like shovels & rakes in the garage!
3) Use available space under your bed. A storage container with wheels and tight fitting lid is ideal.
4) Use wall space, walls are a blank canvas waiting for shelves & hooks!
5) Use organizing products. The options abound!
6) Use wall racks to increase storage-especially great in garages!
7) Look for overlooked areas that you can use for storage: 
8) Use doors-another blank canvas waiting for hooks. You can even purchase hooks that just slide over the top of the door. No nails, no holes but a place for your towels or robes!
9) Take advantage of height or stacking.
10) Part with some of your stuff-send it off to another room or even off to another person or charity!
Make decisions on what to keep, let go of the excess and then use any or all of these tips to stretch the space that you do have!
Your Home Organization Expert-Monika
Tags: DIY organization, garage, Home Organization, home organization expert, hooks, increase storage, Organizing Products, overhead storage units, storage container, stretch space
It doesn’t have to take a major overhaul or major money to make a major difference when organizing your closet-yeah! This is what was done with this closet organizing project…
A worn out old dresser was removed from a long wall in the closet. It was taking up a large amount of wall space with lots of wasted space above the dresser.
There were wire shelves already available in the closet with random items placed on them. These items were moved to higher shelves since they didn’t need to be accessed as often. This opened up space for organizing baskets of various sizes to house the clothing that had been in the dresser. The baskets are from Target for under $100.
Now the wall where the dresser used to sit is a blank canvas for future storage shelves to be added! Be sure to purge any clothing you are no longer using before purchasing closet organizing products to make sure that you have just the right size and amount which will save you money!
Tags: baskets, Closet Organizing, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, organizing basket, organizing product, Target
