Spring Cleaning the Easy Way

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The Spring Cleaning Tips are all mine!

Spring Cleaning is one of those phrases that I tend to avoid. Well, cleaning is something I tend to avoid but spring cleaning seems sort of like a phrase that everyone is supposed to just do and that's that! If you've ever been in a "spring cleaning" kind of mood, it's your chance to really open your eyes and see your home in a fresh, new way!

I'd also like to note that a wonderful part of spring "cleaning" can and should include spring decluttering! When you start to look around your home, move things to clean behind, or open the blinds you may notice more than just dust and dirt. 

The Secret to Naturally Clean Laundry

Let me tell you, I am sort of finicky about what I use around my house - it's got to be natural, safe, and scent-free. I've got a couple of important people who live in this house that absolutely can't have scented anything! 

Welcome to my Organized, Colorful Home

I haven't updated my home tour in awhile so I thought it would be fun to share how my house looks right now, since doing my new kitchen and a few other areas this year. So, I'm going to walk you through the house! If you want to now specifics about that room, just click on the link I provide for each room. 

Welcome to our home!

Our front yard got overhauled last year and is now completely drought tolerant and all native. Go HERE to read more about it. 

5 Reasons Why Your Kids Need to Do Their Own Laundry

I am absolutely in favor of kids doing their own laundry. Let's be real, at a certain age they are totally able to handle it! But, I've also received some criticism or excuses why it's too much for kids to do. In our house, starting at age 10, my kids are expected to do their own laundry. They are each assigned a day of the week to do it. I have my own "laundry day" and they have theirs. Here are five reasons why your kids need to do their own laundry, too:

Let Them Struggle a Bit

Yesterday was SIX years since I first started this blog. On May 26, 2010, I decided to give it a try. I'm somewhat amazed at what it's turned into! 

Today we're going to chat a little bit about parenting and organizing. Why? I have just noticed something going on whenever I read online - what is it? Parents who are afraid to let their kids struggle, to feel pain, to have disappointing days, to get out and experience things. Now, this is mostly my observations and opinions so you may completely disagree with me here, but I grew up experiencing disappointment, having to struggle, earn my way, and feeling pain. Some children, sadly, experience far more than others and I'm not talking about those. I'm dealing with organizing - yep, organizing, of course!

Five Simple Ways to Get Organized

I realize that not all of my readers are on Instagram or follow me on Instagram, but I have simple organizing tips on there, from time to time, that I use in my own day. So, I wanted to share five of those ways that I get organized!

11 Ways to Organize the Laundry Room

Laundry may not be fun to you...it's just an "okay" chore for me. I don't hate it, but I don't think it's fun, either! However, it's WAY easier now that both my kids do their own laundry! Yep, in our home you start doing your own laundry at age ten - before that you have to fold all your clothes and put them away starting at age six. But, keeping the laundry room organized is essential to helping the family keep on top of the laundry. I've found 11 ways to get your laundry room organized - no matter if it's fancy or plain, like mine!

15 MORE Simple and Easy Organizing Ideas

Organizing Ideas are so much fun to share and to see! Aren't they? It's like the most simple things sometimes just spark motivation, knowing you can do something simple, like these ideas I've posted on Instagram, that you can do to organize your home and life.

An Easy Way to Organize in the Laundry Room - Vertically!

Hi fellow Organizing Made Fun readers! I'm Rachel from Useful Beautiful Home and am here to show how I organize using vertical space. I wanted to share something today that was relevant to summer organization and my thoughts immediately went to the laundry. Whether washing up outdoor play clothes or returning home from vacation with suitcases full of dirty clothes, my laundry room is a busy place this time of year!

How to Handle Paper Clutter

Today, I'm so excited to bring you a guest post from a sweet lady. Mary is a professional organizer and mother of four. She loves to organize, create, decorate and then blog about it at MaryOrganizes. Mary doesn't chase after perfection, her goals are a healthy home and happy life. She has amazing organizing skills and is here to help me out with all my back and forth traveling I've been doing. Now..let's handle that paper clutter before it controls us!

 

 If paper is your problem, you are not alone! 

Laundry and Paper are the monsters of homemaking and are more similar than you realize. A good strategy for laundry maintenance can teach you a lot about how to solve your paper problem. Your dirty clothes go in a hamper until its time to wash it. It would be a waste of time and energy to wash each piece of laundry one at a time as it becomes dirty. I use my inbox as my paper hamper and I save time dealing similar types of papers (or loads) at the same time. 

Spring Cleaning and Organizing with Essential Oils!

Spring Cleaning!! Ok, seriously, I don't get excited about cleaning AT ALL! But, when I add some essential oils, THEN I'm a little more excited! I taught a class on Monday all about using essential oils with spring cleaning. So, do you want to see it? Of course you do...

Five Practical Ways to Deal with Laundry and Kids!

Does laundry make your head spin? Are you constantly trying to figure out how to get it all done  - and your kids are making more and more laundry? Well, I've found some practical ways, five to be exact, to deal with laundry and kids!

My Best DIY Projects Ever!

I LOVE to do DIY projects. I LOVE spray paint. I LOVE to decorate and transform spaces in my home, especially. Do you? I was looking back through all my projects I've done over the last 4 1/2 years and I know that you might enjoy seeing what I've done. Perhaps you've never even seen them since you're newer to Organizing Made Fun. But, I'm a spray painting queen! Ha! I love that stuff. And, I like changing things up - I love color and patterns!

Hands Free Tote + Giveaway

One of my newest sponsors, United Solutions, sent me a hands free tote that is so unique and fun! AND, they are going to give FIVE of them away to my super, awesome READERS!! This is such a unique product...

Organized Reader:: Laundry Room Makeover

I have amazing readers! You all have sent some great organized spaces! I HAD to share this one with you!

Organizing: Tips to know where to start

Last week I told you all about my trip to Atlanta. But, part of my trip there included a two night stay with a dear friend of mine - FYI: I was a high school leader at our church years ago and she was one of "my high school girls" in my small group I led and has now grown up and is married with her own little family! I digress...anyway, she recently moved to Atlanta and I wanted to visit her before my conference started and so I flew with her {she was back in my neck of the woods visiting family} and her little toddler boy back to Atlanta. They moved into a small apartment a few months ago and she had a few spots in her small place that she simply wasn't sure where to start. So, I taught her some basic tips and we organized her laundry and pantry room.

OMF to the Rescue: A mudroom fail!

I have another addition of OMF to the Rescue! This time we're dealing with a mudroom. I must be honest, here in Southern California people don't have mudrooms! We don't have enough rain or snow to make mud!

How to put pegboard on a block wall to cover up ugly pipes {and more details}

I think so many of you have asked "how did you get that pegboard on the wall?" many times. And NOW I'm finally going to show you! I showed you last time how I organized it, now I'll show you how I did it!!

Organizing the new wall in the laundry room

Are you dying to know more details of my laundry room transformation? Well, I have been having a lot of fun with it, that's for sure.

Laundry Room Update

I have a special treat today! I've been giving all kinds of behind the scenes pictures on Instagram about my laundry update for weeks! Did you miss those? Oh, if you're on Instagram and aren't following me, you're missing out!