April 11, 2012 by Marci | No Comments
My daughter is way into arts and crafts. We have projects – finished and unfinished- all over the house. Sometimes, her creations are good enough to sell and make money to support her habit. Other times, they are just for fun. Lately, she has been watching a lot of You Tube tutorials for everything from nail [...]
March 26, 2012 by Marci | No Comments
My first task in spring cleaning my bathroom this week was cleaning my make-up drawer. I used this chart from Real Simple to determine what cosmetics to keep and what to toss. It also has the expiration of lotions, shampoos and other bathroom products that will come in handy while cleaning out the bathroom cabinets later [...]
March 25, 2012 by Marci | 1 Comment
This week, I am working on the bathrooms. My bathroom surfaces are cleaned thoroughly each week, but the insides of the cabinets are another story. It is time to clean out the shelves and drawers. I’m sure stuff has accumulated that I don’t even remember having and I’m positive there are some out-dated products that need to [...]
March 21, 2012 by Marci | 17 Comments
“You can’t organize crazy.” When I read that line from the new ebook 3-2-1 Stop, I knew I was going to LOVE this book! The author, Lori Lippincott, was talking my language! Lori advocates and strives to live a simple life, free of the unnecessary distractions society is full of – a life free of busyness. She [...]
March 20, 2012 by Marci | 1 Comment
Are you joining me in Slow and Steady Spring Cleaning? This week, I am working on the closets! Here are some links with closet decluttering/organization how-to’s and inspiration. Closet organizing tips and inspiration from Operation Organization 20 Ways To Organize Your Bedroom Closet from Apartment Therapy Organizing and Inventorying Children’s Clothing from Organizing Junkie How [...]
March 18, 2012 by Marci | 2 Comments
Welcome to week two of Slow And Steady Spring Cleaning. This week, I am tackling the closets - one each day. I’ll be working on our two entry closets (one by the front door and one by the door going into the garage) and our bedroom closets. And by cleaning them, I mean decluttering them [...]
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 [...]
