January 25, 2012 by Marci | 6 Comments
So, you have 20 minutes until company comes. The day has been crazy and you haven’t had time to clean the house they way you would have liked. What do you do? Since panic was my first thought, I decided I needed to ask the experts. I asked Overcoming Busy facebook fans what they would [...]
January 2, 2012 by Marci | No Comments
love this vintage art borrowed from The Vintage Housewife In the mood to de-clutter and get organized for 2012?? Click on over to Today’s Housewife where I’m sharing some tips to make the task a little less stressful.
December 14, 2011 by Marci | 4 Comments
This was originally posted pre-Christmas 2010 and was one of the most popular posts on Overcoming Busy. I hope you will find it helpful this year, as well. ———————————————————————————- We have a little tradition at our house. It is the Pre-Christmas Toy Purge. It’s really simple and quite effective. It’s decluttering. It all started a [...]
November 2, 2011 by Marci | 6 Comments
Up until now, our winter hats, gloves and scarves were kept in a crate in the coat closet. Not the best system, but it worked for a time. It kept everything contained and it was easy for everyone to remember where to find and where to put all their winter accessories. I recently decided that [...]
October 11, 2011 by Marci | 12 Comments
My daughter considers herself a bit of a nail polish artist. She has a huge collection of polishes and nail art brushes. She changes her nail polish daily –if not more often. I fully support her in her artistic endeavors, however this medium tends to be a bit messy. Her dad threatened to ban all [...]
August 9, 2011 by Marci | No Comments
No matter what time I go to bed, I have to read – at least for a little while. I usually have a couple books going on at the same time. Sometimes, I have a little crochet project going on as well. Instead of cluttering up my bedside table or just having a pile on [...]
August 1, 2011 by Marci | No Comments
I am not a garage saler, but once or twice a year the kids and I go “treasure hunting” at some neighborhood sales. Sometimes I find something. Other times, not so much. On our last treasure hunt I scored this……. Click over to Today’s Housewife and see!!
July 13, 2011 by Marci | No Comments
I’m still working my way through our house. Cleaning and organizing one room at a time. Last week, I tackled the most challenging room – my daughter’s bedroom. It was such a success that I was excited to move on to other rooms! There’s nothing like success to breed motivation. This week, the kids and [...]
July 7, 2011 by Marci | 7 Comments
This month, we are slowly working our way through some rooms of the house that need some attention before the school year starts. We’ll be decluttering, throwing away and reorganizing. The kids rooms and the toy/school/tv room are first on my list. We decided to tackle my daughter’s room first. I knew it would be [...]
April 15, 2011 by Marci | 2 Comments
Today’s post got put on the back burner. I’ve been spending my writing time this week doing some spring cleaning. I have been tackling the house area by area, bit by bit instead of hitting the whole thing at once. Just the thought of spring cleaning all at once makes me tired! That got me [...]
April 5, 2011 by Marci | 27 Comments
This past year, I have been slowly making our toy room into our homeschool/toy room – with less and less toys and more and more educational and organizational stuff. We have added a few things that have worked and a couple that really haven’t. I’m starting to figure out what we really need and what [...]
