Archive for the organizing Category

Who’s Up For An Organizing Challenge?

February 16, 2010 by Marci  |  2 Comments

Who's Up For An Organizing Challenge?

Laura, at I’m An Organizing Junkie, is hosting a 28 Day Organizing Challenge during the month of February.  The challenge to readers is to declutter and organize a space in their home during February.  All throughout the month, Laura and a talented group of guest authors, are serving up tips and tricks to make the [...]

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Organizing Lessons From The Kitchen

February 2, 2010 by Marci  |  No Comments

Organizing Lessons From The Kitchen

I have been slowly re-organizing and de-cluttering my kitchen over the past couple weeks.  In doing so, I learned a few organizing lessons that can help us all!  Visit me today at The Creative Mama and read all about it!

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Organizing Your Taxes

January 20, 2010 by Marci  |  1 Comment

Organizing Your Taxes

The New Year brings with it resolutions, Christmas returns, white sales and tax documents.  In the next few days we will start getting documents on the interest we paid and made at the bank.  We will receive the report of how our investments turned out in 2009.  Church and other charitable organizations will send out [...]

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Grocery Lists

January 19, 2010 by Marci  |  No Comments

Join me today at Family Survival 101 where I’m guest posting!  We’re talking grocery lists and how to organize your list to make your trip to the grocery store shorter and more efficient.

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Great Links To Help Organize Your New Year!

January 6, 2010 by Marci  |  3 Comments

Great Links To Help Organize Your New Year!

Now that the holidays are over, does anyone else feel the need for some “spring cleaning” in January?! Since taking the decorations down, I can see I need to clean and organize just about every area of my house. My plan throughout the year is to organize a little area every week or [...]

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Post-Christmas Toy Management

January 4, 2010 by Marci  |  No Comments

Are you wondering where to store all those toys Santa and his elves left at our house this year?  Do you have too many toys already?  Visit me over at The Creative Mama today for some ideas for managing your kids’ toys.  If you have any toy storage or organizing tips, I’d love to hear [...]

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Taking Inventory

December 31, 2009 by Marci  |  No Comments

I will be taking a blogging break to be with family for more holiday festivities!  Enjoy this previous post that can help with your planning for this new year.  I’ll be back Monday January 4 ready for a new year of Overcoming Busy!
Whether you think you are not very busy or you know you are [...]

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Start Overcoming Busy Right Now – The 15 Minute Project

October 23, 2009 by Marci  |  2 Comments

Start Overcoming Busy Right Now -  The 15 Minute Project

Just the thought of decluttering and organizing can be enough to overwhelm some of us.  When we look at the size of the job as a whole, it can seem impossible to tackle.  That is why lots of us never even start.  This week in our series “Start Overcoming Busy Right Now”, lets look at [...]

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Tips For Staying Clutter Free

October 14, 2009 by Marci  |  2 Comments

So, you’ve invested the time to de-clutter and organize your home.  You are basking in peaceful, serene glory.  Then, it hits you.  “How in the world am I going to keep this up?!?!”  You may have found a place for everything.  But does anyone else know that?  Does the system you created work for everyone [...]

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Join me at The Creative Mama!

October 12, 2009 by Marci  |  No Comments

Want to get organized, but having a hard time getting started?  Join me over at The Creative Mama today and we’ll chat about it!

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Hey look! I’m featured on I’m An Organizing Junkie today!!

October 1, 2009 by Marci  |  No Comments

Hey look!  I'm featured on I'm An Organizing Junkie today!!

I am so excited!  Yesterday’s post about my DIY re-charging station is being featured as a “Storage Star” on I’m an Organizing Junkie.  I love that site.  One of my favorites.  Laura always has great tips and ideas for organizing our lives.  Check it out!!

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