June 24, 2010 by Marci | 1 Comment
In my kitchen, and probably my house, the utensil drawer has been the last organizing frontier. I have re-organized my kitchen twice in the last year, but haven’t touched the utensil drawer. It is a mess!! You might have a drawer just like it. That would be the one filled with soup ladles, potato mashers, [...]
June 9, 2010 by Marci | 1 Comment
I am always on the look out for new organizing and planning tools. This week, I hit the jackpot!! I have three super finds for you to check out for yourself. Maybe one or more of these will help solve your organizing delima!
Springpad – Myra at My Blessed Life posted about her favorite new organizing [...]
June 3, 2010 by Marci | 7 Comments
Here is my reoccurring organizing/clutter delima. The landing zone. It’s this little piece of counter between my fridge and my stove. This is where everything that comes into my house lands first. Usually, the stuff gets moved to where it actually belongs, but often stuff just stays here. It drives me crazy! This is how [...]
May 21, 2010 by Marci | 2 Comments
Welcome to The Article Club! This is the Overcoming Busy version of a book club. I’m not asking you to carve out time to read 400 pages (that you may or may not like) then find the time to summarize it all for me in a sentence or two or tell me how it changed [...]
May 13, 2010 by Marci | 1 Comment
Don’t have time for those big organizing projects? I bet you have time for something smaller, let’s say bite-sized. I’m writing about organizing on the small scale at The Creative Mama today. Come on over and check it out!
April 29, 2010 by Marci | 6 Comments
All of us have some sort of method of staying on top of appointments and events. We might use a wall calendar, a planner, an online calendar, a PDA or a phone. All those are great options, but which is the right for you? Today, we’ll look at various planning/scheduling tools and their pros and [...]
February 16, 2010 by Marci | 2 Comments
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 [...]
February 2, 2010 by Marci | No Comments
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!
January 20, 2010 by Marci | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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.
January 6, 2010 by Marci | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Marci Goodwin is wife to an amazing husband and mother to two phenomenal kids. She is on a quest to get the "busy" out of her life so she can spend time on what's really important. Life is just too short to spend it on stuff that just doesn't matter!
