Home Organizing for Beginners: Organizing, cleaning and time management strategies

Do you have paper clutter during the school year caused by the tons of school paperwork flowing into  your home?  In today’s episode I’m sharing a back to school organizing idea that will get you ready for back to school and all the school paperwork that comes with it. As a mom looking for a fresh start in her home organizing journey, you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, ri...

Does your head spin with all the different options of how to get kids to do chores? Should kids get paid for chores? How do I make a chore chart? So many questions. Am I right?! You just want what works. In today’s episode I’m sharing why chores are important for kids to do, what chores are age appropriate for kids and a very basic method on how to get kids to do chores. As a mom looking for a fre...

What’s the best time management tip you’ve ever gotten? Well, today’s time management tip is going to top that! In this episode I share reasons to delete social media and how deleting social media benefits you and your family. Your mom schedule will look and feel so much better! As a mom looking for a fresh start in her home organizing journey, you want to be set up for lasting home organizing sol...

Learn how to organize your garage so that you can enjoy a bit of peace as soon as you drive in. In this episode I share why you should organize the garage even if it’s not your space and how to make it happen. As a mom looking for a fresh start in her home organizing journey, you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? That means you’ll have to do something different than y...

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is HOW TO CLEAN YOUR KITCHEN. I despise having to clean the kitchen before I can make dinner. It’s so frustrating to have to clear the counters and wash the needed pots and pans before I can even get started. This was my reality way too often. I’d walk in the door with a crying baby on my hip and 2 toddlers running around begging for something to eat. When...

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is a summer cleaning strategy. Summer is busy or busier, right? In a different way because the weather is warmer, there’s more things to do, there’s more family fun to be had. Imagine this scenario. I know you’ve had something like this happen already this summer. It’s early Saturday morning. Your kids come running into your bedroom to wake you up and beg...

I received a question from a listener, Alasa. She asked “How can I find time to organize when I can’t even keep up with daily tasks?”  Alasa asked me this question and is receiving customized recommendations back through email. She initiated our conversation and my free support and you can too by going to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com and clicking the Ask Me Anything link. Today’s microscopic...

This is the third of a 3 part series on overcoming overwhelm at home. Last week I reviewed how prioritizing the way we’re taught actually makes us feel more overwhelmed and how you can prioritize instead so that you get stuff done. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is creating a dependable system that will capture all the thoughts, ideas and to-do’s that cross your mind. The whole concept...

I find that sometimes I don’t want to take the time to do this whole brain dump thing. Then prioritize it? I fool myself into thinking that if I just roll up my sleeves and get started that will be way more effective.  What happens then? I find myself starting one thing only to notice that another thing needs to be done too. I wind up with several things started and nothing actually completed. In...

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is brain dumping - the best way to get all the things out of your mind so you can get the right things done. This is the first of a 3 part series on overcoming overwhelm at home. Do you ever feel overwhelmed? That’s a silly question, right?! EVERYONE feels overwhelmed at times. While it would be great if we could implement something that completely elimina...

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is Kids Clothes that Don’t Fit. When my kids - all 3 of them - were born they fit into 9 month size baby clothes. The biggest at 10 pounds and the smallest at 9 pounds 8 ounces, the clothes we got at the baby shower were simply too small. Nobody was predicting that our babies would be so big! Not even my doctor. Even the diapers we had initially were too s...

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is Tidying Up. Do you have little piles of stuff scattered here and there around your home? Maybe a bit of clean clothes sitting on a chair because you’ve just not had time to put them away. Or the mail from yesterday is sitting on the counter because you just haven’t gotten to it yet. The dirty dishes are sitting in the sink or on the counter. Kids dirty...

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is LAUNDRY. I have these unwritten rules in my head about laundry. Do you too? Sort them by color. Wash darks on cold, whites on hot, use bleach, wash towels together, wash jeans together. ugh! Do I really need to do all these things? I mean, before kids it was easier because all the dirty clothes were just mine or mine and my husbands. After kids the whol...

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right?  In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of allowing spring cleaning to seem like a black mark on a great time of year, you can find a new way to get started. In t...

In each episode I share a microscopic home organizing topic. That just means it’s something you can implement today, from start to finish, if you so choose. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: What you can do when you don’t know how to get organized. As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing...

This is it. This is the final strategy that will help get you off the hamster wheel of home organizing. That’s where you organize the same spaces over and over and over again. If you’ve not listened to the episodes detailing out the other 7 strategies you’ll certainly want to go back and listen to all of them. It can be right now before the rest of this episode or after you’re done here. All 8 str...

How many times have you stopped at a store, saw some really nice baskets or bins and all of sudden had motivation to get organized. Literally this is where I think we all start. My daughter, without any prior discussion, asked if we could buy these specific baskets so that, and I quote, “I can organize my bedroom, mom.” How is it that buying baskets or bins will result in an organized bedroom? Whe...

Does the thought of going through all your stuff in order to get organized make you feel anxious and overwhelmed? You are not alone. What I’ve learned over time and in talking with a lot of moms is that getting started is HARD because we think we have to get rid of a lot of our stuff in order to get organized and we’re just not ready until we are ready. Up until a couple of years ago I had every p...

Have you found yourself watching home organizing shows on Netflix? I love watching them, but I typically walk away with this vision in my head of what an organized home is supposed to be - perfection. Wonderful decor, all matching, fitting in the allotted spaces. The work they do on those shows is great, but I’ve found for myself and my clients, it ultimately demotivates most moms. It’s just not r...

How can I get organized when I’m so busy? This is a very valid concern and one that I had too. I used to carve out entire weekends or take days off of work just so that I could get organized. The problem with this is that since I felt like I had carved out all this time I could get a ton done. And it was inevitable that I would bite off more than I could chew. I’d get to the end of the day or week...

I’m going to guess this has happened to you before, and I only know because it has happened to me too! You finally feel motivated to get organized. You have the whole weekend planned, you’re going to start with your office, then do the junk drawer in the kitchen. You know it’s a stretch goal, but you totally feel up for it. Saturday morning hits, you get up, get your cup of coffee and dive in star...

How do I get organized and stay organized? This is a question I hear a lot and it’s a question I used to ask myself too. I was so tired of organizing the same spaces over and over again. It happened often enough for me to name the cycle the hamster wheel of home organizing. We have a set of lockers in our entryway coming in from the garage. I lost count on how many times I got this space organized...

I felt fear and frustration everyday when I’d walk into my home. It was always a mess. I’d get motivated to do something, set aside an entire weekend to finally get organized only to wind up irritated with being interrupted by my kids. I’d yell, they’d cry. Ugh. It was an ugly situation! One I’m not proud to share, but I know now that I’m not alone in this cycle. I just wanted to walk into my home...

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In today’s episode I’ll share with you the 8 strategies you need to employ in order to stay off that hamster wheel of home organizing forever. Then over the next 8 weeks we’ll dive deeper into each strategy. We’ll identify what the problems are whe...

So today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: The best way to get rid of the stuff you declutter. Welcome to Home Organizing for Beginners. In each episode I share a microscopic home organizing topic. That just means it’s something you can implement today, from start to finish, if you so choose.  Do you find that as you’re living daily life you sometimes come across something and you think...