Entries for January, 2013
A closet should be a simple and well organized place to keep your wardrobe. But all too often it turns into a cartoonish parody of itself, with all sorts of random junk spewing out of it at all times.
It can be very, very difficult to keep your closet in order ...
It doesn’t matter how large your kitchen is, or whether you live in an apartment, a condo or a house. You probably wish you had more space for storage as well as for food preparation. Fortunately there are plenty of organizational products that are made to increase the usable space ...
Ever reach into your jewelry box to find a jumbled mess of tangled necklaces and bracelets, intertwined with rings and the errant earring? It is not a fun sight to behold, especially in the morning when you are trying to accessorize and still make it to work on time. Thankfully, ...
As time marches on, it seems like it can be more and more difficult to fit all of our things into our living quarters. For people who live in jam-packed cities like New York, you simply aren’t going to be able to afford to have a very big place. You’ll ...
Another way to organize your office or home office is to use color. Colored folders can help you identify the items that you need immediately, allowing you to segregate each child’s school information separately or to differentiate specific projects at work. This is true whether you keep your folders in a ...
It is amazing just how many different types of shoes we need just to go about our daily lives. Are you going out for a jog this afternoon? Then you had better grab your running shoes. Are you planning on taking a trip to the beach this weekend? Then make ...
I recently shared three organizing projects that are just perfect for starting you off on the right foot this year with your organizing goals. All three of these projects can be accomplished in under a half hour, and can give you that “fresh and organized” feeling without sucking up your whole ...
When Old Man Winter comes to town and the white stuff starts to fall, most folks repeat their annual search for stored boots and shoes. But after seven or eight months in exile, it can be difficult to locate them, especially since they rarely stay in the same place. Why ...
Garages tend to accumulate clutter more quickly than any room in the house. After all, a garage is a multipurpose space used primarily for storage—the garage is where overflow from the rest of a home goes when space runs out. It’s easy to turn a blind eye to an over ...