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Tips and Organization Ideas for Your Home
Looking to get your life and home in order? We've got our favorite organization ideas gathered together to make it easier for you to find what you're looking for. I guess you could say we organized our organization tips.
Do you come home from the grocery store and simply throw things in the refrigerator only to find them spoiled by mid-week? Or do you know that you bought something at the store, but can’t find it when you go to make the meal? These organization hacks of groceries are going to save you timeread more…
Kitchen hacks make life so much easier, don’t they? And what do you use most in your kitchen? Your refrigerator, of course. Organizing your fridge goes a long way in saving time and money, but we’ve found even more fridge hacks that will totally change the way you use your refrigerator. Place an egg cartonread more…
If you’re formula feeding, you’ll collect a ton of formula canisters during baby’s first year. If you’ve been throwing them out all this time, stop! Those sturdy canisters make wonderful organizational containers and craft supplies. Here are 15 formula canister projects to get the ideas rolling. Creative Ways to Reuse Formula Canisters Make your babyread more…
I’m sure if a poll was taken asking which area in the house was the most cluttered or difficult to organized, most likely the room that would win by a landslide would be the linen closet. What with all the towels, sheets and orphaned pillow cases it’s no wonder the closet is such a mess.read more…
Blinds. There is no quicker or more effective way to switch from natural light to privacy please! Just a twist of the wrist and the magic happens. Surely, this is why just about every window in just about every house and apartment in the U.S. comes dressed with BLINDS. We have come to expect them.read more…
Does anyone else have limited cupboard or counter space? I only have so much room for spices in my kitchen, and most of the Lazy Susan spice racks out there are just more than I need. So I figured out a Lazy Susan hack that is too easy not to share. No actual building, gluing, constructingread more…
You reach under your kitchen sink only to knock over three cleaners in your search for the sponges. Sound familiar? Too often, we don’t take advantage of that under-the-sink storage space. Here are 16 brilliant ideas for under sink storage ranging from ways to use vertical space to interesting installations and fixtures. Under Sink Storageread more…
Spring cleaning is the perfect time to get your house ready for open windows, fresh air, and the sun beaming in and making the place sparkle. Sometimes we forget the garage when it’s time to organize, but it’s definitely one of the most cluttered areas of our homes. Time for Garage Storage Ideas! It’s easyread more…
The time is almost here. Your sweet little bundle is due to arrive in the next few weeks (or months depending on how intense your nesting urge is). You’ve unpacked all the cute outfits and adorable onsies, washed them, and are ready to put them in the nursery. But you don’t want that sweet littleread more…
Is your house cluttered? Sometimes the easiest solution is also the hardest – deciding what things to throw away, donate, or repurpose. Grab some trash bags and a couple of bins and let’s get started! How to Not Be a Hoarder: 50 Things You Need to Throw Away Do you have a “catch-all” drawer orread more…
In this day and age, saving seems to be a thing of the past. With credit galore, impulsive buying, and spending, it makes it easier to avoid saving. Eventually, however, this lack of saving and credit debt will catch up to you. Finding ways to save is an important step in living a financially freeingread more…
Your garage can be a valuable space… or it can be a complete dump. It’s all up to how you organize (or don’t organize) your space. And since you loved our original garage envy post, we knew you were in need of even more ideas to organize your garage. We’ve found 15 more tips, hacksread more…
We’ve covered some clever ways to hide ugly wires in your home, but what can you do with cables, cords and wires that you use more frequently? We’ve all experienced the heart sinking feeling when we see that the cord we need is in a tangled web of other cords in your drawers, your purse,read more…
When it comes to organization, tackling big projects can be completely overwhelming. The truth is, organization starts with the small things, like your storage spaces. When closets and drawers are organized, it’s easier to put things away and eliminate clutter. So let’s start small. Start with the drawers in your home. We’ve found some greatread more…
If you own electronics and also use the restroom, listen up! (Yes, basically ALL of you should be listening up.) Tangled up cords are the worst. There is nothing more frustrating than needing the one specific cord for that particular device and once you finally find it, you cannot get. it. OUT! Because all of theread more…
Do you ever get overwhelmed when you are doing spring cleaning? Where you just want someone to start or tell you where to begin? We love cleaning tips to make life easier and hacks to make your home clean, and we love this list of homemade cleaning recipes – but what about a list? Hereread more…
Pegboards aren’t just for garages and tool sheds anymore. While they’re useful there, you can organize with pegboards in just about every room in your home. Check out these pegboard organization ideas for clever ideas to help you store your stuff. A pegboard storage wall in the garage can make a huge difference in howread more…
Having a basement can be a blessing or a curse. On one hand, you have lots of extra storage space. On the other hand, it can quickly become a dumping ground for all that stuff you never get around to organizing. If your basement is chaotic and cluttered (I know ours is), here are someread more…
Even though my kid has long been out of diapers, I continue to buy baby wipes. Why? There are so many ways to use baby wipes! So that means I still have quite the stash of baby wipes containers, too. Here are some of the best ways I’ve found to repurpose and reuse those containersread more…
