Kitchens tend to be a dumping ground for everything.  We walk in the door and drop our keys, purse, mail, and shopping bags on the counter.  We put away the groceries and somewhere in our subconsciousness find it ok to leave the mail there.  Next thing we know, we have a few little items scattered throughout the room.  

I am guilty of disorganization in my kitchen.  I am trying to get better though.  Here are a few kitchen organizing tips.
1)  Put things away when you’re done using them.  If we did this with everything our lives would be so much cleaner …read more

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I’m not quite ready to let Halloween go as of yet. This is the perfect time to hit the mall and pick up all of those Halloween decorations that you wanted for this year, but never got around to getting. Well you are in luck, prices I noticed just yesterday, have been slashed by at least 50% and at one card shop, all their Halloween goodies where marked down by 75%!  Now you can’t sneeze at that! Grab what you can and stash it in the Halloween Box that I talked about …read more

There are quite a few posts about clutter control and housekeeping that I go back to again and again. There is just so much information and inspiration in these posts that one reading, or two or five, is not enough.
Here are three of my favorite posts from all over the web, just perfect for your weekend reading .
Top 100 Posts for Organizing Your Life
18 Five-Minute Decluttering Tips to Start Conquering Your Mess
Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things

Ever since I saw this video on organizing kid’s rooms and toys, I’ve been planning to re-do my own system for my kids’ toys. Originally, I wanted to start with this:

I’m all excited about watching the Olympic Games. There’s just something special about this event and the coming together of the world’s best athletes. Maybe we can channel the excitement from the Games into our homes? I find that I’m often inspired by products and ideas into coming up with a “Hey, I can do that!” moment.
Here are some items that have inspired me lately to think about how I can organize my home better:

* Book Buggy from Levenger. This is perfect for the room where you do a lot of reading. Store your favorite books on it …read more

My hope is that someday, my kids will be able to clean up after themselves. Meanwhile, they have to be taught the why’s and the how’s.
These are the things that I try to do to get them on the path to being neat and organized.
* Make it fun with a clean-up song (Barney’s is great) or a rhyme. This works specially great for preschoolers.
* Work on small areas at a time. Kids get overwhelmed when they have large areas to clean up. Dividing the chore into small tasks, like one type of toy at a time (cars, stuffed …read more

The laundry room is one of the spaces in a house where organization is almost an afterthought. However, keeping this space organized helps in making this chore easier to accomplish. Here are some tips:

* Use tall narrow hampers or wide hampers that are stackable like these from Rubbermaid. Storage should always be vertical whenever possible, and hampers are no exception. Going vertical saves on floor space.
* Sort clothes as soon as they are taken off. A hamper with three compartments (white, lights and darks) works well for me. I can see immediately whether I have enough for a full load. …read more

For this giveaway, I have Mabel’s Label’s Neat Freak Combo for three lucky winners. I used random. org to give me three random numbers out of the 160. And those numbers are:
 
The winners are…