My Room-by-Room blogging friends and I are writing about garages and storage spaces today. When the time came that I could no longer put off writing this post (about one of my home's most irritating spaces), I donned my dust mask and headed into the garage. Imagine my delight when I realized that I could easily share the best, most useful, …
Room by Room
Overcoming “Big Idea Paralysis”
My home is forever a work in progress. Kinda like me. While this can be frustrating to the girl who loves project deadlines, accepting that the state of progress is an okay place to be . . . helps me. Here's the thing. I get big ideas. I picture wonderful finished projects in my head. Things that are done and finished and can be …
Keeping the Dining Room Under Control
Today the Room by Room girls and I are talking about the Dining Room. For me, it’s the VERY first thing you see when you walk through my front door. Which is great when it’s clean. And not-so-great when it’s not. And without being EXTREMELY intentional . . . it doesn’t stay clean. I mean, it’s a room that basically just contains one …
When You Fear Your Kids May Grow Up to be on Hoarders
My Room-by-Room blogging buds and I are talking about kids' rooms today. Kids' rooms. Hmmmm. Month before last, it was the master bedroom and that was traumatic enough. Now let's add Mommy Guilt to the mix. I have purged and re-arranged and organized and re-organized my kids' rooms many times in this never-ending deslobification …
Clothing Management – Hanging Vs. Folding
Over the past few years, I've become a hanger. Not a hanger hanger, but a hang-er. Someone who hangs. You know what I mean, right? Anyway, it started when my oldest began wearing uniforms in first grade. Before that, it was all comfy-boy-clothes all the time. But once he wore khakis and collared shirts all week, it seemed like the …
90 Minute Master Bedroom Transformation
Ninety Minutes. That's it. Just 90 minutes. After that much time (an hour and twenty-five minutes and eleven-point-seven seconds), my master bedroom looked like this: Maybe that seems like a lot of time considering the fact that the dresser is still piled with stuff. Just wait. I'll show you the …
How I Store Plastic Food Containers
(I'm teaming up with some other bloggers today to talk about . . . kitchens!) As someone who could create a graph of my life showing a way-too-sharp upward spike in plastic food containers followed by a way-too-gradual downward decline . . . I've learned a thing or two about how to store them. For me. And for my Slob Brain that doesn't do …
