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 [...]
March 18, 2011 by Marci | 4 Comments
Paper clutter has been my nemesis. No matter what organizing system I tried, I couldn’t keep up with the amount of paper coming into our home. When Simple Mom announced that this week’s Project Simplify hot spot was paper clutter, I was determined to come up with a organizing system for our paper clutter that [...]
March 14, 2011 by Marci | No Comments
OK. Last Monday, I told you I was joining Project Simplify at Simple Mom and would post the results of the first week’s challenge on Friday. Um..yeah…no post. I know. I had a delimma. Last week’s hot spot challenge was the master closet. We were supposed to de-clutter and re-organize our master closets and then [...]
March 11, 2011 by Marci | No Comments
Do you need help organizing your current projects? Have you tried using a project box? What is a project box? Head over to The Creatve Mama today where I’m sharing a simple way to keep your crafting together.
March 7, 2011 by Marci | No Comments
Over the weekend, I wrote about Spring Fever remedies. One of my favorite remedies is spring cleaning. I never quite make it to spring before I start spring cleaning. Its the whole “out with the old, in with the new” and “I’m so sick of gray skies and snow I could scream so let’s clean [...]
February 18, 2011 by Marci | 3 Comments
Haven’t had a lot of time to write this week. I’ve been spending time with friends as they pack up their house and get ready to move to Chile for 4 years!!! Soaking up the last few days they have her in the states seemed like a smarter way to spend my time. I did [...]
December 28, 2010 by Marci | 6 Comments
Now that Christmas is over, it is time to put away all the toys and goodies that have made their way into our homes. It’s times like these when we realize that maybe we had too much stuff to begin with! I believe that everything should have it’s place. That’s why we make room before [...]
November 29, 2010 by Marci | 7 Comments
We have a little tradition at our house. It is the Pre-Christmas Toy Purge. It’s really simple and quite effective. It all started a few years ago when my husband and I found ourselves cringing at the thought of the kids getting more toys for Christmas. We are a 3 gift family ourselves. (It was [...]
November 17, 2010 by Marci | 3 Comments
In my house, I find that keeping the public spaces organized and clutter free is fairly easy. They might get a little out of sorts throughout the week, but all-in-all I am on top of it. Then, there are those hidden areas that just don’t show up on my organizational radar. For example, a couple [...]
November 15, 2010 by Marci | No Comments
Last week, I took a couple days off. I still had posts here at Overcoming Busy, but I scheduled them ahead of time. Evidently, one didn’t make the schedule – still stuck in draft mode. It all worked out fine since I spent the whole weekend with family and never got around to finishing my [...]
