Posts by Jill Annis | Simply Organized
Garage Organizing Tip: Organizing Small Tools.
Do you waste time looking for your tools? Have you ever purchased a tool you couldn’t find only to find it later? Organize your tools in a manner that will allow you to simply find them instead of wasting time and money. My husband built a workbench with a pegboard above it. We have one…
Read MoreGarage Tip: A Solution for Organizing Large Yard Tools
Are your rakes, shovels and other yard/garden tools taking up precious floor space in your garage? Are they tangled up in one big pile so you avoid doing yard work? That’s your excuse and you are sticking to it. Hang them from the garage walls. The supplies you need are large nails, scrap lumber, decking…
Read MoreGarage Organizing Tip: Maximize garage space so you can actually park your car in the garage.
This is our garage. There’s a lot of stuff in our garage. Most of this stuff belongs to my husband, a fishing/outdoor enthusiast. He is also the “saver” in the family. “You never know when you are going to need a piece of an old bicycle inner tube; let’s save it” he tells me. …
Read MoreGarage: Using a Locked Storage Cabinet to Organize Hazardous Items and Valuables
A storage cabinet with doors will keep hazardous items like garden chemicals, paint, and pesticides out of the reach of children, especially if it’s locked. If you have valuable tools in your garage, you may want locked storage. Before we organized my client’s garage, she had pesticides sitting next to macaroni and cheese they stored…
Read MoreBe prepared and organized for the next time your pet is sprayed by a skunk
Our dog Cleo has been sprayed by a skunk numerous times. She obviously isn’t catching on to the whole avoidance thing. If you have had a skunk spray your pet you know it’s extremely nasty. Thank goodness my sister shared an effective recipe for a skunk odor removal concoction before Cleo was sprayed the first…
Read MoreKeep it fresh with a clothes pin
A simple clothes pin is all you need to keep your snacks fresh. No need to buy fancy chip clips if you don’t already have them. I don’t do fancy, I do simple. Most of us have clothes pins around the house. Do you have bags of chips, pretzels, crackers, cereal, or other snack items…
Read MoreLaundry tip: catch up on your laundry
Does your laundry pile up and becoming an overwhelming task? Maybe it’s time to start a laundry routine. Put a load in every other day or so, that way you don’t have to spend hours trying to catch up. Finish that load completely instead of leaving baskets of clean laundry sitting around waiting to be…
Read MoreLaundry tip: hangers
When a load of wash is dry, hang up the shirts instead of tossing them into the clean laundry basket. This will reduce wrinkles and save you a step. I keep a supply of empty hangers in my laundry room and hang the shirts on this clothing bar. An over-the-door bar will also work if…
Read MoreIs it time to make a change?
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” Author Unknown Organization requires changing habits and changing the way you feel about your “stuff.” Start with small changes. What is one change are you going to make today to become better organized? Please share in the comments section.
Read MoreLaundry tip: socks
Do your socks lose their mate? Do you spend a lot of time sorting clean socks for your family members? Assign each family member a zippered lingerie bag for their socks. Write their names on the bag with a laundry marker or a permanent marker. Each person will now be responsible for matching up own…
Read MoreLaundry Tip: Simplify Laundry
It sure isn’t fancy or complicated but it works for me. This is my basement laundry area. Instead of piling dirty clothing on the dirty floor, I sort it into baskets according to the load category. Lights, darks, jeans, sheets, and bleached items. When a basket is full, the clothing go into the washing machine.…
Read MoreLaundry Tip: Children Can Do Laundry
I taught our teenage daughter how to do her laundry when she was 12 years old. Until then, she had to rely on me for clean clothing. I wasn’t totally reliable, meaning the article she wanted to wear wasn’t clean when she wanted to wear it. You may have been hesitate to teach your children,…
Read MoreLaundry Tip: Make those clothing piles disappear
What do you do with the clothing that you’ve worn only once? It’s not dirty enough to wash, yet you don’t want to mix it up with really clean clothing. So where does it end up? On the floor? Over a chair or hanging from your treadmill? Maybe they end up in the dirty laundry…
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