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Last week I talked about the Daily Cleaning Tasks that I rotate through every week. These are the daily cleaning tasks that I post on my Facebook page and Tweet every morning as little reminders. Monday – Bathrooms Tuesday – Dusting Wednesday – Vacuum Thursday – Wash Floors Friday – Catch-All Day Saturday – Sheets +
We’ve been working through letting go of paper clutter over the past few weeks, tackling areas and methods to eliminate the stream of paper and piles. We only have two areas left…today we’re going to talk about photograph storage. Photographs are a touchy subject because there are so many forms and ways to store them. How you
We’ve been working through letting go of paper clutter over the past few weeks, tackling areas and methods to eliminate the stream of paper and piles. Today we’re talking about CARD STORAGE! Perfect for this time of year, no? I’m not talking about cute displays for your Christmas cards that you see all over
We’ve been working through letting go of paper clutter over the past few weeks, tackling areas and methods to eliminate the stream of paper and piles. Today we’re talking about BINDERS! They are my favorite tool to organize paper. I feel like my binders are like my homekeeping brain on paper – all the things and ideas
We’ve been working through a series on letting go of paper clutter and this week’s topic is school papers. They’re sentimental, sweet, and if you let them, they’ll take over your house. My kids bring home piles of papers every.single.day. I love going through them with them and talking about their days, what they learned,
How about a little organized bill paying? Bill paying is inevitable and it typically isn’t very cute. I am a visual learner and person, so bills are not my forte. But, add a little cuteness to them and I am totally on board. This is how I keep track of my bills – what needs
Last week we talked about mail and setting up a mail station. Once you have a mail station, you are ready to conquer the bill clutter. (I know that bills are mail, but to me it’s much more manageable and less overwhelming to break it down a little bit.) The obvious ways to eliminate bill clutter is
Monday I talked about reducing your mail clutter – hopefully you’ve been able to make some progress on your mail situation the last couple days. Today, let’s talk about setting up a mail station. Why set up a mail station? Creating a space to drop your mail, pay your bills, etc. is a step
This week we’re going to work on stopping the paper trail as it pertains to mail. We’re going to work through 3 things this week (all are detailed today). First off, here are a couple simple guidelines regarding mail if you want it to pile up less. open your mail over the recycling or
Let’s continue working through our paper trail, shall we? This week we’ve been tackling receipts. A few people wondered why I was sorting receipts…..if you itemize taxes and take deductions, you need to keep those receipts for at least 7 years in the event of an audit. So the receipts pile up. Here are some
