Clutter Cutters & The Paper Academy
I am a HUGE fan of 3M hooks and furniture slides! It is amazing to be able to hang stuff just about anywhere without damaging the items you are hanging. It almost rivals the ability to arrange furniture throughout my entire house without any help! If you have not been introduced to these two items, …
Baking season is here, so it’s time to check out and edit the spice and baking cabinets! A fun personal holiday gift idea is to create a plate of homemade cookies, bars, or candies for neighbors and colleagues. My boys and I do this each year and we derive so much joy from giving, and …
Baking Season is Here: Tips for Stress-Free Holiday Baking & Gift Giving Read More »
With winter on its way, getting prepared for storing the heavier coats, scarves, hats, and gloves now helps avoid the clutter that they could create later. Here are a couple of options: 1) Create and label a bin with each person’s name, then all their items can live in that bin when they are not …
Fall usually brings comfortable days and cooler nights. To keep from turning up the heat in the evening, keep a basket, bin, or decorative trunk of blankets close to where you sit. Grabbing a blanket and snuggling into the couch or your favorite chair while you read a book or watch TV can be so …
Avoiding the Land of Let it Lay: The Walk-and-Drop System for Fall Blankets Read More »
With school starting again soon, I wanted to share this trick that I learned and implemented in our home. It saved me so much stress, de cluttered the school work, and gave structure to all of the school papers that came into the house. When my boys were younger, they would come home with all …
Cut the Back to School Paper Chaos with this Simple Paper Organizing Trick! Read More »
I have a confession to make: before I found infinity calendars, I messed up birthdays on a regular and consistent basis. I would get so frustrated when I found out that I had the wrong day by just a day or two. Or my personal favorite, I would miss the birthday altogether. These were the …
Can one small task make a difference? YES! And here is how. My youngest son was in Sea Scouts, where they learn all sorts of amazing things including navigation, and how precise you must be. You see if you miss, change, or alter your course by 1°, after a mile, you’ll be off by 92.2 …
Anytime we buy a new product, we receive a warranty and instruction manual. We usually use this to set up the product/item, and then frequently, we do not need the instructions or warranty information again. I don’t know about you, but I find that these papers can really stack up. However, we need to keep …
How to set up a System for your Warranties and Instruction Manuals! Read More »
Most of us have recipes that have been handed down from our families, friends, and neighbors. You know, the ones that are jotted down either on a scratch piece of paper, or the recipe cards that say from the kitchen of: ______. Some of them we treasure, make frequently, and bring fond memories. But others …
They say that the kitchen is the heart of the home, and nothing could be truer, especially when you are preparing meals for your family. Sometimes the challenge in a kitchen is having space to prepare meals. Whether you have a small kitchen, too much stuff, not enough counter space, don’t know where to start, …