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Summer Bucket List: M is for Making Memories

As you’re planning your summer and adding items to your summer bucket list, do you ever step back and remember your own childhood summers? If not, take a minute today and do so. You might be surprise...

5 days ago 1 person likes this

Summer Bucket List: S is for Spot it!

Today’s summer bucket list add-on is the game Spot it! from Blue Orange Games. They offered me two complimentary games, and being the game lover that I am, I simply had to say yes. I’m always up for ...

6 days ago 1 person likes this

Summer Bucket List: D is for The Book of Doing

Continuing on with our summer series, in my next few posts I’m going to share a few add-ons for your alphabetized summer bucket list. The first one is THE BOOK OF DOING: Everyday Activities to Unlock...

22 may 12

Get Organized for the Summer: Tips for Keeping Your Puppy Safe

For today’s Get Organized for the Summer reader question, I called on my friend professional organizer Janine Adams. April asked a question about keeping her puppy safe during the summer. While I hav...

21 may 12

Summer is No Time for Guilt

As Jennifer posted earlier, today is the first official day of summer in our little town! Yesterday was a terrific last day of school at the Garvey household. Kailea had a little school’s-out get tog...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

Welcome to Summer!

It’s a bright, crisp morning outside. I hear neighbors heading to work and birds singing warnings about the neighbor’s cats. But inside my home, it’s still and incredibly peaceful. I’m not packing lu...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

Add a Little Happy to Your Workspace

This time of year, the sunny weather outside can make it harder to stay inside and get your work done. (Are you noticing this, too?) When the weather starts to tug you away from your desk, it’s more ...

15 may 12 1 person likes this

Get Organized for the Summer: Establishing a Cleaning Routine

Hello my friends. Sorry for the unannounced blogging break last week! It was a crazy-busy week as we wind down the school year and gear up for summer. Add an anniversary, Mothers Day, and a busy clie...

14 may 12 1 person likes this

Balance Summer Fun and Keep Your House in Shape

The following post is a sample of my weekly Quick Tip email. Since it goes along with getting organized for the summer, I wanted to include it as part of the Get Organized for the Summer blog series....

05 may 12 1 person likes this

Get Organized for the Summer: Reader Q + A

Alright…it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! Its time for some reader Q + A posts about getting organized for the summer. This first batch of questions is related to finding balance in the su...

04 may 12

Get Organized for the Summer: create a summer fun list (a.k.a. summer bucket list)

This is the fourth post in our series on getting organized for the summer. Click here to read the first, second, and third posts. Now that you have a vision for your summer and you’ve planned out the...

02 may 12 1 person likes this

Freebie Friday Winner

Thanks to everyone who entered our Freebie Friday giveaway for a chance at a spot in our upcoming Organizing with Your Kids online workshop! Congratulations go to Helen, who was selected at random. H...

02 may 12

Organize a Ransom Box + Freebie Friday

I kept coming across the idea of a toy jail/toy ransom box for items the kids don’t put away and thinking, “I should totally do that.” It’s such a great idea! I just could never seem to find the time...

27 apr 12

Get Organized for the Summer: Create a Vision + Plan + Free Printables

This is the third post in our series on getting organized for the summer. To read the first two posts go here and here. Create a Vision My last post in our Get Organized for the Summer Series about “...

27 apr 12

How to Ignite Your Creativity

For the past six years, the motto on my blog has been “Organizing & creativity go hand-in-hand. Organizing creates space for creativity & creativity makes organizing more fun!” I continue to ...

26 apr 12

Get Organized for Summer: When are you at your best?

A big thank you to everyone who posted questions about getting organized for the summer! It was fun to read your questions and hear about your summer challenges. I’ll be answering some of the specifi...

25 apr 12 2 people like this

Earth Day Giveaway Winner!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Earth Day Giveaway, and congratulations to our winner, Anna! She was selected at random with her comment, "Thank you for offering a give-away! During ...

24 apr 12

Earth Day Giveaway: Natural Cleaner for Pet Stains + Odors

It was only a matter of time. Joy, who most likely has a future as a prosecuting attorney, had some pretty solid arguments making her case for a puppy. Faith had begun to spend her free time with one...

20 apr 12

Organizing with Kids: Handling Hand-Me-Downs

“Do your kids get hand-me-downs from friends or family? If so, sort and purge right away. Keep only those items your child will use or wear.” ~Aby Garvey That’s a snippet of advice that Aby offers in...

19 apr 12 1 person likes this

Getting Organized for Summer

Summer is coming! We’ve definitely been talking about it here at work as this will be my first summer working at simplify 101. Between Aby and Jay’s two kids and my two kids, there are a lot of summe...

16 apr 12

Organizing with Your Kids: A long term perspective pays off.

Right before we left for Michigan, my daughter got spring cleaning fever. She was in the mood to pitch things like she’s never been in the mood to pitch things before. Now, if you’ve taken any of my ...

13 apr 12

Declutter Your Keys

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my family and I went to Michigan last week to visit family. Part of our trip involved picking up a new-to-us car. (Hooray!) This means we have an old car to sell an...

11 apr 12

Freebie Friday Winners - Organize Your Kitchen + eMeals Giveaway

Congratulations to our Freebie Friday winners! Lisa won the spot in our Organize Your Kitchen Video Workshop with her comment, "I just started staying home and so I was thinking about signing up ...

10 apr 12

Home

Last week, my family and I snuck away for a few days of vacation in Michigan. I always call this “going home” since I grew up in Michigan and this is where most of my immediate family lives. It’s fun...

09 apr 12

Freebie Friday: Organize Your Kitchen + eMeals

Around here weve got a thing for time saving strategies. I just love it when I get to stop doing something that eats up way too much of my time. Take meal planning. No, really. I mean, take meal plan...

06 apr 12

Time Management Tips for Mom: How to feel better about a day full of thankless tasks

I’ve been meaning to blog about this topic for quite a while now. It’s something I think many mom’s can relate to: how do you make yourself feel good about a day full of thankless tasks? Have you be...

03 apr 12 1 person likes this

From Zero to Four Kids in Thirty Seconds: a book review + giveaway!

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, then you know that when I do book reviews they are typically on self improvement books, organizing books, or decorating books, as these are the kinds of bo...

30 mar 12

Organize a Sick Kit + a Free Printable Checklist

Every time one of my daughters gets sick, I find myself doing something like this. I go upstairs and find a sick kiddo. I suspect fever, so down to the master bathroom closet I go to get the thermome...

29 mar 12 1 person likes this

Freebie Friday Winner

Thanks to everyone for all the great responses to last weeks Frog-Eating Freebie Friday! We felt super proud of all of you who so boldly revealed your frogs to us. And, to those of you who came back ...

27 mar 12

Storage Solution of the Week: Hinged-Lid Storage Box

What it is: This week’s storage solution of the week is a canvas, lidded box. Where I got it: Walmart Why I love it: They make great clutter bins! I’ve been using clutter bins in my home for ove...

26 mar 12

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