Organized Resolutions: staying motivated to organize

It's January and you've been busy all month getting everything in your house so organized, you could just gush! Right? Then, February comes along and you start to slip up and let things go. Spring comes along and you focused more on "spring cleaning" and don't put things back where they go. By summer you've pretty much realized that the house isn't going to stay up to par with all your kids home from school. By Fall, the house is a complete mess again. Then, you start the year over again with the same motivation to stay organized.

 

I'm not sure if this sums up your organizing or not, but staying motivated and inspired is very important, and for some of you, having someone hold you accountable. For others, teaching your family to be organized so you can keep your sanity.

We're organizing our living areas and play rooms! Challenge #4

I can't believe how many closets linked up last week! And our sponsors have pulled through and gotten us some great prizes to achieve! Today we're going to organize our living area and play rooms - you might call a family room, living room, or wherever your family hangs out to play the most. But, first:

The winners of last week's closet challenge ARE:


1st place: Tonya of Love of Family and Home with her closet turned office. She won a Closet Maid Closet!!

Organized Resolutions: Being less wasteful

Last week, I brought you my organizing resolution about living more healthy and today I'm going to show you how I'm trying to be a little less wasteful -- even if it's just a little bit. 

 

Get your closet in order and organized: Organizing Revolution Week #3

Oh, how I LOVE an organized closet! Love, love, love! Closets are an important place for us to store our "stuff" without everyone seeing it! So, we're going to begin tackling your closet today {or if you are ahead of the game, you've already started}. But, first:

The winners of last week's office challenge ARE:

1st place: Vanessa with her cute pantry on Pinterest

She won a YEAR subscription to 5 Dinners in One Hour and an Ebook! Congrats!

Organized Resolutions: Eating healthy and organizing

The New Year always makes me feel like having fresh, new goals to set for the following year. But, these past few months I actually started earlier than the new year and wanted to share with you some goals {or resolutions} that are helping me stay organized and eating healthy.

 

Who is Ready to Get your Kitchen Organized? Challenge #2

Today we're going to get your kitchen organized -- or at least attempt to do! But, first:

The winners of last week's office challenge ARE:

Organized Resolutions: Keeping the house clean and an Oreck Giveaway!

This year and last year, I am giving you motivation to help you get yourself organized. My Organized Resolutions series will run every Wednesday this month. Today I am going to talk about keeping the house clean...but best of all, I've got a FANTASTIC giveaway from Oreck--The Bagless Vacuum and Steam Mop!!!!

 

Organized Resolutions: Weight management

The year in year out resolution that probably most of us have made one time or another {other than organizing}, is to lose weight or at least to get more healthy! Am I right?

I have told  you my weight loss story before. I was never overweight until after I had my first baby. I gained over 70 pounds - most of it was water, seriously - and even though I lost some of the weight, I then gained it back again after having my second baby and gained a total of 80 pounds. By the time I was 36 {and done having kids}, I was a good 40+ pounds overweight and needed to do something.

Organized Resolutions: Cleaning

Today's organized resolution is cleaning! 
Uggh, this is seriously something I don't like to do. 

Are you like me? Do you NOT want to spend all your time cleaning everything? I certainly don't. About a year and a half ago I shared a post on keeping your house clean by doing 15-20 minutes a day of cleaning. It's a VERY popular post. I have actually had a couple of nasty comments saying that I misled people into believing it's REALLY possible to do it and that it's just not possible - but hey, TWO bad comments out of thousands of hits on that ONE post isn't so bad, right? I've also seen comments on Pinterest about that post that people can't see when I actually do laundry.

Organized Resolutions: Scheduling

Do you have a crazy, busy life? Me, too! 

This Christmas I felt like I was going to go bananas! Every day was filled with activities and more things that needed to get done than I wanted to do. I had an opportunity to speak to a group of college students in their teacher education class on autism - which was so wonderful to do! Plus, I had all the many activities to drive my son to [who is now a middle schooler and his schedule has just exploded}. I had a blog explosion, lots and lots of email and facebook. I had piano lessons to teach to 15 students. I had FOUR Christmas parties at my house. I had regular Christmas activities....well, it was nuts. Absolutely nuts. How did I do it all?

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Organized Resolutions: Getting Organized! {and FREE Resolutions printable}

Totally, completely, utterly unorganized…

Is this you? Do you think you are totally and completely unorganized? I know there are many of you who read this blog who say you are. There is hope, really there is!

Organized Resolutions: Your Finances and NeatDesk Giveaway

OK...are you ready to start the New Year off right? 

Have you started making your New Year's resolutions? Are you thinking that you need to get more organized? Of course! Why are you here?