Top 10 ways, to keep your room organized!
Friday, October 30, 2009 | By tennisdancer05
Hey guys here is some top 10 ways to stay organized with such a busy life you don't want to come home to a room that is a mess, which just leaves you more stressed out than you started.
1.) Make your bed, something so simple can honestly make your room look bigger and more put together, if your room is a mess start with the bed then you have a clean spot to start organizing your life.
2.) Put up a memo board of some kind, I use a stick on the wall cheap white-board it allows me to put up reminders and keep the post-it notes from attacking me with reminders when I wake up and you just simply erase it when you are finished with that task.
3.) Keep your hangers all in one spot, if they aren't hanging something up organize them to all be in the same spot that way when your doing laundry and have to put things up your not searching for hangers.
4.) Go through your closet every few months, things change keeping only things that fit you and/or you will actually wear keeps you from having a closet full of junk, more organized, easier to find what your looking for, the amount of clothes you have to organize down, and it feels great to donate things you don't use anymore.
5.) Keep a routine, right before you leave or come home get into a 5 min. routine where you just quick tidy up believe it or not 5 minutes can help keep you organized and your stress level down.
6.) Do NOT keep things you don't use anymore just lying around get rid of it, those McDonalds toys from when you were 3 do not need to still be thrown somewhere in your room, keeping only the essentials and day to day things will keep the clutter down, and the bugs out.
7.) Do not throw things under the bed!, organize your bed space, i bought a cheap under the bed roller that keeps things organized and easy to access and out of the way.
8.) Take out the trash, make sure not to leave excess waterbottles,trash,useless papers lying around the trash will create more clutter and not to mention make you look bad if you have friends over.
9.) Invest in the clear drawer, white( or color of your choice) containers that are on wheels if you keep your paperwork as easy access, but organized and out of the way it will less the clutter, and force you to keep the papers from getting out of hand.
10.) Magazines! girls I know we are all guilty with keeping every magazine, I discovered the best thing to do with magazines off a show, read the magazine, ripe out that one outfit page or self help page you love grab a binder and organize it keep a slot for just shoes, jewelry,clothes, advice, then throw the useless magazine ads you don't care about in the first place out it keeps all your great ideas from the magazines in one easy to find, organized in categories, and keeps the magazines from taking over, after a year or a few months go through and those some of those ideas or articles you have already used or are dated.
And good luck! ask me any questions I will try my best to get back to you ASAP!
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E-A-S-Y way to clean linoleum!
Monday, July 20, 2009 | By slw1299
I hated my kitchen floor! It's linoleum, white with black and gray in a square pattern. The linoleum has a textured, dimpled finish. No matter what I use to damp mop with, this floor always looked dull, and the dirt did not come up from the dimpled texture with a mop. The only way to really get the floor clean was on my hands and knees with a scrub brush and a few hours' work! And I seldom made the time to clean it in this fashion...so it always looked dirty, it always WAS dirty, and I hated it.
A friend forwarded this tip to me, and I believe it is truly one of the best tips I've ever received! Foam Carpet Cleaner! I purchased a can at our local Dollar General for about $1. I sprayed the foam in a sweeping motion over about 1/4 of my kitchen area, and went and sat down for about 15 minutes. When I came back, the foam had dried up for the most part; I then took a Mr. Clean swivel type wet or dry mop with a terry mop head, (about $7 at the Dollar General), wet the terry pad and mopped up the dried foam. To my amazement, the foam had loosened all that dirt in those hard to clean dimples, and my floor was stunningly clean! I sprayed off another section, under the table, and let it "soak"; I sprayed a 3rd section after about 10 minutes, and proceeded to mop up section 2; sprayed section 4 and mopped up section 3; and finally mopped up section 4. I did dry each section with a dry terry towel after mopping. After hand drying each section, I was able to walk on my floors without leaving any footprints. After 2 hours, my floors had dried to a beautiful shine - all the dull spots, all the worn and gray dimpled areas, the whole floor just sparkled! I have a huge kitchen/dining area that used to take 2.5 to 3 hours to mop on my hands and knees. I was finished in about 40 minutes (due to the wait time for the foam to do its thing) and NO SORE KNEES!
I hope this little tip helps someone else. I'm amazed that the carpet cleaner does not advertise their product for linoleum as well as carpet for loosening ground in dirt. It is truly amazing!!
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Update on Closet space
Thursday, July 09, 2009 | By Craftslady2008
I managed to get rid of 215 tall trashbags full of hobbies & fabric and plastic canvas I no longer have time for into the trash dumpster last year & beginning of this year including 2 bags of baby dolls & stuffed animals. I am in need of some help, I don't want to get rid of any of my yarn, because they were so expensive in the first place when I purchased them and I have all kinds of colors imagineable into these rubbermaid containers. Roughly, I have 31 of these containers and I started making baby afghans, teddy bears for our local hospital & started doing Angel for Hope and I was wondering besides sell, trade or give away my yarn is there anyone having twins? I could make your twins an set of outfit for that special twins or anyone who just had twins or if anyone that is a single mother with a baby or child who can't buy clothes for your baby or child? Is there anyone out there that could use baby or child(ren) clothes that are homemade?
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Odd Sock Job
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | By Monique63
Use an old odd sock to use on your dry erase whiteboard.
I don't know why I didn't think of it before because I would use kitchen towel! Doh!
Monique :)
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on the wall
Saturday, June 27, 2009 | By mom_of_chaos
Why is it that no matter how hard I try to put things in their place the children still f ind them and then ruin something with them?
I have had to put locks on more than one door in our home so the children can't ruin things.
None the less, I have craft paint on my walls that I don't know how to remove, sharpie, pencile, and washable marker on my walls also and don't know how to remove it. some is on wall paper other is on a painted wall. I don' t know what to do.
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air drying
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | By CarrieLyne
Hello again.....I have been doing an experiment. Long time overdue, but better late than never-right??? I have been air drying everything (laundry) except blue jeans, wash clothes - kitchen/bath, and under garments. Wal-Mart offers an air drying rack for approximately $15.... So we received our electric bill this month, and yes we are on budget billing, and our bill was different by $40 each month. HOW EXCITING!!!!! I have ran my dryer maybe 3 times this past week. The savings alone is nice, but knowing that I helping that little bit more with the environment....is even more exciting.
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My yard sale
Sunday, May 31, 2009 | By Witchymommacny
First I gotta say,"WoW!" because my yard sale did great! I am an avid yard sale shopper myself and I tried to take into consideration my own shopping experiences while planning for my sale. I had a pretty large sale (and it was our town wide sale weekend to boot) so I had been preparing for a couple weeks in advance. I put price stickers on everything and was sure to tell all my customers that all prices were negotiable with exception of my hand made jewelry (I put some on a cork board bagged and tagged to show off my talents, lol).
For the clothes I put 25cents on most, but jeans were 50cents to $1, because you just can't beat an almost new pair of jeans for a buck! I had bright yellow signs posted up the street both ways (we live on a main drag) with balloons and a big sign out front with a lot of parking area. I put almost everything on tables to make it easier for browsers, the toys were on the kids' shorter outdoor tables. We set up large items like the crib, chest freezer and treadmill over to one side and had everything plugged into a power cord so everything could be "tested". It was funny when a lady opened the freezer and started to say "does it work?" and realized it was on! I replaced batteries in all the toys and electric equipment (cheap batteries, but enough to show that everything works), and had a radio playing Y94FM which is a "family-friendly" radio station, up-beat but no cussing or provocative lyrics to deter potential customers. At first I was going to set up a canopy tent to block the sun (it was supposed to be hot out), but it turned out to be very windy so we let the sun shine on the sale. Also- every so often when there wasn't anybody browsing, I would re-fold the clothes and spread out table items to look more appealing and I really think that helped (like I said, based on my previous shopping experiences)
All in all, we sold almost everything we put out there (did some great negotiating, I didn't want anything coming back to the shed!) and had a great time. I let my kids keep the money from their items including clothes and toys, and my hubby and I split a $400 profit :) My momma would have been so proud!
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Chalk It Up To Experience!
Saturday, May 23, 2009 | By Monique63
To save any of your jewellery from tarnishing, pop a length of chalk inside your jewellery box. I have no idea how this works but it does!
So if you buy a box full of chalks - give a stick each to your girlfriends and female relatives for their jewellery!
Monique :)
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HOMEMADE LAUNDRY SOAP
Saturday, May 02, 2009 | By Kathleen
It seems to me that there must be a way to clean your clothes that won't cost the earth (literally!) As it turns out, there are plenty of recipes for Homemade Laundry Soap online - but are they cost effective? And can a busy mom reasonably take time to make soap..? Well, the boys are off to the movies so I have a little quiet time to find out.
My recipe required the following items:
- Borax
- Washing Soda
- A Bar of Laundry Soap
- Oxy-type multi-purpose stain remover (optional) - mine came with a plastic measuring spoon that was just the right size!
I found all of these items in the cleaning section at my local Superstore. They aren't cheap though! The consolation is, I doubled the batch and I still have enough to make several more batches. Oh - and my recipe says you only need 1Tbl for a small/lightly soiled load or 2 Tbl for a heavy/dirty load.
The instructions are very straight-forward, and with my "food" processor took minutes to finish. This method does leave small bits of soap in the powder, so warm water is recommended. Also, I add the soap to the water first to allow it to disburse entirely through the water. Next in goes the laundry, and 1/4 vinegar for the rinse cycle to get rid of any remaining soap residue.
So, what is the difference between Soap and Detergent? Soap is naturally made and Detergent is man made. On the plus side, soap is better for the environment however, on the negative side, soap can react with minerals in your water causing your whites to grey. Well, if this is the case I will have to save the soap for dark colors!
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heating vents/dust
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | By albright4ever
Just thought I would drop this tip to help some people who suffer dust allergies. I would and could dust everyday during the winter months until I found a cheap solution for my house. I remembered when I was a child that my mother would always cover her heating vents with cheese cloth. It leaves the heat flow through but yet catches all of those particles of dirt and dust. Since I have started to use this I have noticed a big change in the dust and haven't had to dust as often. I have felt the difference with my allergies also.
Just take enough of cheese cloth to wrap around the heat register and place the register back into area. You will have to replace it when you can start to see the dirt build up or the cheese cloth becomes torn. A pack of cheese cloth goes a long way. I have covered all 7 of mine and I still have about half a pack left and the pack cost less than $3.00...
Stay warm and with less dusting....
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