For those of us with school-aged kids or who work in education, the new year starts about now – when our kids go back to school. You don’t need to make a resolution to make your life easier. When you opt out of prescreened mail, you stop a major source of paper clutter before permission Read More
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Make Back to School Less Brutal with Checklists for Kids
It’s back to school time and the transition can be brutal. Remembering what to take out of the house, getting stuff done once you’re home, and getting to bed on time can feel harder at this time of year than any other. Make your family’s life easier by creating checklists. Checklists for What? Introducing checklists Read More
Back to School Organizing
Back to school time can feel chaotic, but it doesn’t have to be chaotic. How do you make the shift? 6 Tips for Back to School Organizing Set an intention. What do you want the start of the school year to look like? To feel like? For your kids and for you? Identify the obstacles to that Read More
Where Do I Get Rid of …?
So you’ve gone through all of your stuff and created a donate pile. Where can it go? When you’ve got a whole lot to donate at once, I recommend giving to one charity that can take as much of what you’re giving away as possible. You’ve already done the work of sorting through everything to clear Read More
Organize Your Energy, Time, & Spending This Holiday Season
Santa is not the only one who should be making a list and checking it twice this time of year. In the holiday season, the big challenges are to not do too much or spend too much. The pressures to do both are high. Don’t Over DO Put the things you want to make sure Read More
Looking for Financial Aid? Get Organized First
One of the first things you must do before applying for financial aid is get organized. Applying for student aid may seem as easy as filling out a FAFSA or applying for a loan with a private lender, but organizing this process will help you save money on your education. After graduation, you will be Read More
Organize Your Summer with Kids for More Fun & Less Stress
If you’re a couple of weeks into summer, you may already be feeling the lack of structure the school year provides. Summer offers many organizational challenges: inconsistent schedules, summer trips, sunset at 9 p.m., camps, playdates, and more. It also gives us a chance to spend more time with the kids, which we hope can Read More
5 Meal Prep Strategies to Simplify Your Life
Meal prep can be time consuming, messy, and stressful. If you aren’t organized about it, preparing food often happens at the last minute, when you’re hungry and tired. Organized meal prep is much easier when you’ve set yourself up to have everything you need. Three steps will get you there. Make a meal list. Turn your Read More
Menu Planning to Make Your Food Prep Easier
Menu planning is a great strategy for making the most of your time and money. A menu keeps you from throwing away food you bought, but never had time to prep. It also helps you put together a variety of meals to please your palate. Before you sit down to plan your menu, you’ll want Read More
Save Money & Time with Organized Grocery Shopping
Grocery shopping is an activity most people do more frequently than they’d like. Every time you end up at the store without your list or forget to put an ingredient on the list in the first place, you lose time. Multiple trips to the store make it more likely that you’ll spend more money too. These Read More