January 6th, 2012
With the New Year here, I am sure many of you have goals/resolutions/tasks/jobs set for yourself to complete.
One job I started working on is cleaning out my closet.
This entails pulling anything out of my closet that is on the floor and sorting through the pile, as well as looking throughand sorting each clothing item that is hanging up.
What made this task a little bit better….having a friend there to help sort and share her opinion on clothing!
I tried many things on.
If I wasn’t sure about it, I tried it on.
If I liked it but my friend wasn’t sure, I tried it on.
If I haven’t worn it in a long time, I tried it on.
There were a few items where my friend didn’t even say a word, I could just tell by the look on her face that she didn’t like something.
So to the consign/Goodwill pile it went.
Honestly, I still have a mess. The final product has yet to be seen. 
Some tips I have picked up along the way or things that I just do….
1. Use hangers that are all the same color/style.
For some reason, I feel that having white hangers helps make things more organized.
2. Look at each piece of clothing.
Make sure there aren’t any missing buttons or something else wrong with the item.
Also, if your pants or shirt could use a quick press, pull out your iron and ironing board.
3. Group clothing by type, then by color.
Some people organize their clothes by color only, I like to group mine by type as well.
Camis, tank tops, dress shirts, plain tshirts, long-sleeved shirts, Iowa State clothing, pants/jeans, dresses, casual tshirts.
4. Every few months, I hang my clothes with the hanger going the wrong way.
This way, after another few months, if the hanger is still the wrong way, that means I haven’t worn it…..so I should get rid of it.
I will admit, I use to have a hard time with that. But now, I’m ready to clean stuff out!
5. Put dryer sheets on my shelves, to keep my closet smelling nice.
Who doesn’t want a closet that smells good?
What tips/suggestions do you have for cleaning out and organizing your closet?
I’ll share my completed closet next month, as well as any tips you have to share.
So until then, grab a friend, and help each other clean out and organize your closets!
January 2nd, 2012
I like to compartmentalize my goals, and so I made this “become a better you” form that allows me to specify areas of my life that I want to work on, and have 3 small or big goals or activities within each of those areas. Here is how I filled out mine:
The nice thing about this form is you can use it all year long. Maybe at the beginning of each week or month you can sit down and quickly decide a handful of goals/activities that you want to accomplish that month to keep you on track with being the best you you can be.
I’ve included a free download of the form completely blank, and one with the subjects already filled out.
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December 19th, 2011
Okay so I know Christmas is less than a week away, but I am so behind so this is still going to work for me! But even if you’re Christmas is all done and organized you can remember this for next year.
So I created a checklist with 5 major columns, and under each of those columns are a bunch of check-boxes for different activities, parties, gifts etc that you need to schedule, accomplish, shop for etc. This is a great over-view type of document that you can use to schedule all your various Christmas happenings. Since everyone’s Christmas activities are so vastly different, I made this form an EDITABLE PDF file. You can’t change the categories ( I should have done that too, but it’s too late now!) but you can change all the existing checkbox text as well as add text to all of the existing checkboxes. And you can save the file and reprint next Christmas so you have a good idea of all the things you need to do for Christmas.
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And since Christmas is a week away, I created a simple Christmas Countdown with 7 days leading up to Christmas. This one will have to be printed out to be filled in, but you can quickly write up all the things you need to get done this week… like STARTING TO SHOP for Christmas gifts… or is that just me??
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December 17th, 2011
I can’t believe how close to Christmas we are getting! And after that the new year. So I set aside some time to get my 2012 weekly planner finished. I have gotten a ton of emails asking if I was bringing it back this year, so hopefully if you asked you are checking back to see if it’s been released.
The 2012 planner is the same as last year except – due to some great feedback – I updated the place that used to be the “shopping list” to just say “List” and below there are no categories. The “list” can be changed to say whatever you want, and when you change it once it will change for the entire year. The boxes below are still separated but with no headers and are editable but will change interdependently and not as a group or throughout the year. This should make it much easier to use this space in a custom way.
Here is a close-up of how the pages work. Each of the daily and weekly chores are editable. The Daily chores will populate throughout the year. So if you don’t like to exercise (who does??) then you can change that to say “take a shower” etc. and it will change to “take a shower” on every single week. The weekly chores are independent though, so you can add and change week by week, but not for the entire year. I believe that you can do a find & replace though that would change something like “clean garage” to “clean gutters” if you don’t have a garage, and really like cleaning your gutters.
The planner is 25% off this weekend only (Saturday & Sunday) December 17 & 18th 2011. The rest of my digital shop is 25% off as well as one free digital kit and three dollar kits (prices marked are sale prices).
Have a great holiday season!
November 7th, 2011
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it and if you plan on hosting overnight guests it can be a lot of work. Stay organized by using my Holiday House Guest Planner. I divided this planner into 4 sections: preparations, accomodations, meals, and activities. Then along the bottom there is a 1 week schedule where you can write in the days of the week leading up to and including your guest’s visit.
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