I love the Pottery Barn catalog. Not that I’ve ever purchased anything from it - I just love to flip through it and glean ideas from the pages. One PB staple that I’ve always coveted is their entryway lockers. I don’t know why they appeal to me so much. Maybe it’s because my optimistic brain convinces me that if I had them in [...]
Monday, August 11, 2008
Let’s face it, as an organizer I have a natural affinity for charts. Over the years I’ve made all kinds of charts to track various parts of family life…job charts, reward charts, cleaning charts, homework charts…I’ve made them all. This year, as I face another school year (and all the chaos that comes with it) I’ve [...]
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Keeping track of your kids activities and school schedules can be an overwhelming challenge. My solution? Take the pressure off yourself by helping your kids do it on their own. In our house my kids use their fridge planners to keep track of all their weekly to-dos. When I posted this idea early on in [...]
Monday, May 28, 2007
As I mentioned before, moving to a new house always has its challenges. In addition to finding new spots for our ocean of toys, I’ve also had to come up with a new solution for our mudroom. In our new house, the entryway from the garage is a small mudroom/laundry room. It’s only about 5 [...]
Saturday, October 28, 2006
It’s that time of year again. Time to keep track of dozens of cold weather accessories. It seems like it takes forever to get to the car because you have to factor in all the mitten search time. Rather than continue to waste time hunting, I opted for this easy solution. We don’t have a mud [...]
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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