The Organizer Lady

Getting organized is the key to making your life as a work at home mom efficient and, relatively, stress free. If you can get and stay organized, your business and your home life will flourish. Without taking some simple organizational steps you’ll be swamped with work and overwhelmed with laundry in no time.

One of the most important parts of getting organized as a WAHM is to establish business hours. Setting up specific working times during each day has many benefits. First, you’ll be more consistent with your work. Once you’ve gotten used to starting and stopping at a specific time each day you’ll work more efficiently. As a WAHM, you’ll manage your work time better and reduce distractions like checking your email or watching television. You’ll also be less likely to pick up things to do here and there, like laundry or taking time to errands. If you have set working hours, you’ll schedule those tasks around your work time so you’ll be more focused during your work time. It will help your family and friends understand that you are working while you are at home, and you won’t be available during those hours.

Next, you need to start delegating tasks to other family members. It may seem easier to do everything yourself, but once you have work duties on top of household duties you’ll realize how few hours in the day there actually are. There is nothing wrong with asking your children to fold the laundry, or having your husband cook dinner a few nights a week. By sharing the household duties as a family, you’ll have more time to get your work done and feel more rested. The important thing to remember when you delegate is that things won’t be done the way that you would do them. However, they are getting done.

Planning your work and family activities will make the whole house run smoother. If you don’t have a daily planner, then you need to get one. It doesn’t matter if it is a paper planner or a computer application. When you use a planner to write down everything that needs to be done, and then plan each activity for a specific time then you’ll have the opportunity to manage your time more wisely in and out of your home office.

Organizing your home at large will help make your business more organized. While it may take a while to establish some organizational habits in your house, your efforts will be well worth it. Don’t try to get organized in a weekend or even several days. Work up to a level of organization. Start small with your desk space. Organize the things in your desk and top of your desk. Make sure that everything that you need has a place, and toss or donate things that you don’t need. Then move on to another portion of the house. When something is out of place, it’s easy to put it back in its home once you’ve taken the time to organize your storage spaces around the house. If need be, take a trip to an office supply store or home improvement store and buy items like bins, cabinets and shelves that will help you stay more organized.

Getting organized as a Wahm does take some time and effort. Realize that with time your organizational system will get better. Work with your family to make your home run efficiently, and then you’ll be able to concentrate on your work when you need to.

Keeping ourselves is organized, but helping our children do it can be quite a chore. To make finding items in their closet much easier for them, consider a custom closet organizer. It will help them keep their room cleaner and also help them learn about organization at a very early age. To make the project fun for them, let them assist with picking out the closet organization system as well as installing it.

For the best results, consider a custom closet organization system that you can change down the road as your child grows. This also gives you the option of helping them reorganize their closet in the future. You will want to consider your child’s ability to reach the top of their closet. If they can’t, then organize it to where the most common things they need to reach are at their level.

Placing a clothing rod lower than what is standard in an average closet allows them more independence to hang up and choose their own clothes. It will also give you one less chore to do. They also can’t use the excuse that there is no place in their closet to put anything! Even if your child can reach the top of the closet, adding a second clothing rod is a great way to have more space to hang up clothing.

Adjustable shelves can be place at lower levels for children to store items easily. You can them higher them up as the child gets older. You can also resort to placing items that aren’t used often on the very top shelves where you can help the child access them when needed. Colored milk crates work great for this, and they are very inexpensive.

Adding hooks work well for hats, robes, and jackets too. To save even more space in the closet, consider hooking them on the inside of the door. A shoe rack is a necessity for any child’s closet. How many times have you had to help you child locate a shoe? You can also use a hanging shoe rack. If it is too tall for the child, hang it as low as possible. You can put the shoes that are for rare occasions in the high holders for the child. You can also cut one in half and have to shorter shoe holders. These fit well on the inside of a closet door as well.

Keeping in mind that the idea behind a custom closet organization system for your child is to make it simpler for them, not for you. Each person has their own way of organizing, so let your child decide how items will be grouped. You can give them some pointers, but your child will be more willing to keep their closet organized if they get some say in how it is going to be done. A combination of hanging space, cubbies, drawers, shelves, and shoe organizers can help you and your child tackle this feat.

Customizing the storage space in your child’s closet can turn it from a location of chaos to a well organized place to store their clothing and other personal items. Since the needs of a child are continually changing, you should consider adjustable closet organization products that can change with your child. You can find the right products to organize a closet for any age of child, from an infant to a teenager.

Getting organized is one of the most common responses when people are asked what they would like to accomplish this year. Do you know the average person spends four weeks of their life searching for items? While not all of that time is spend searching for things in a closet, you can save yourself some time looking for items if you get your closets organized. It will also be more approachable as you open it up each morning to start your day.

There are so many ideas out there to customize and organize your closet that the project may seem completely overwhelming at first. To make it more manageable break it down into sections. The first thing you are going to have to decide is if you want to do the work yourself or have it installed. Doing it yourself is very feasible for most closet organizing products. It is also less expensive. Most closet organization systems don’t require too much skill. If you can operate simple hand tools you should be fine.

Next you are going to have to take everything out of your closet and sort it out. This is going to give you an idea of how many items you need to put back in there. While this is a dreaded task, it is essential to getting you the best closet organizing system for your needs. Who knows, you might even find something you have been looking for in there!

Based on the results of the sorting project, start planning your objectives for your custom organization system in your closet. Make it unique to fit you. Take your preferences and your health into consideration. If you have a bad back or suffer from knee pain you don’t want to place the items you frequently use where you will have to bend over to get to them.

Adding dividers is the best way to go. Be creative. Don’t get stuck in the usual decorating patterns you have seen before. If you want to use wicker baskets to store you sweaters then do it. Why worry that the home improvement guy on TV used plastic containers for the same task? The key is to make it something you like. Keep in mind that some closet organizing products aren’t designed for heavy items. Other than that the door is open.

Should you decide to go with a professional to design and install your custom closet organization system, don’t be afraid to speak up. Make sure they know what you plan to be storing in there as well as the type of set up you want. A consultant is a good choice if you really don’t know what you want or if your goal is to get the most space possible. They have more experience in this area and can give you plenty of great ideas.

Don’t feel obligated to purchase a custom closet organizer of you don’t like it. In addition to spending your hard earned money, you are going to have to look at it every single day. If you don’t feel like you can talk to the person who will be doing the work about your ideas, then you are working with the wrong consultant.

The process of getting your closet organized should be an exciting adventure, not a nightmare. Keeping the amount of space you have to work with in mind, take some time to explore the various options and come up with some great ideas. Look online, in home improvement stores, and in magazines. If you find particular custom closet organizers you like, save a picture of it and write down the product information so you can check it out further. Don’t rush the process of choosing the risk custom closet organization products for you. Taking your time will ensure you get exactly what you need to find all that additional space in your closet.

If your closet looks anything like mine, it is full of items, including shoes. I absolutely love shoes. I do get very frustrated though when I want to wear a particular pair but I can only find one of them. I guess this is my own fault though as my closet is quite disorganized. While I am going to organize my entire closet, my first order of business needs to be coming up with a customer closet organizer for my shoes.

The right shoe organizing system for your closet is going to depend on how much space you have and of course, how many pairs of shoes you own. Shoe ranks have several rows for you to place your shoes on. They come in every width you can imagine. If you have only a slim area, consider purchasing a shoe organizer for your closet that is tall and skinny.

Cubbies work great for storing your shoes as well. You can put one pair in each cubbie opening. This makes them very simple to access. Make sure you store them in a manner that they bottoms are touching so that one doesn’t get the other dirty when you stack them. Be careful placing high heels in cubbies because they could scratch each other.

The area behind the closet door is open left bare, but you can transform it into a shoe organizer storage area in your closet. There are some that adhere to the door and others than hang over it. Most of them come with roomy pouches that you slide your shoes in. They are clear for easy choosing. The same rules apply though for storing them as with the use of cubbies.

If you have the room and the money, a carousel with slots for your shoes is ideal. You can get it to turn manually or install a switch. This is a fun and easy way to rotate the carousal until you find the pair of shoes you want to wear. However, this type of shoe organization system is quite difficult to install and very expensive to purchase. You will likely need to have it custom built and installed by a professional.

The cost of creating a customized closet organizer for your shoes is going to depend on the size of it, who installs it, and the materials you use to make it from. Some shoe organizers are made of wood and others are imitation particle board. You can even find them made out of plastic or canvas. Make sure that the material you choose is going to be sturdy enough to hold the weigh of your shoes.

As you can see, there are many wonderful ways you can customize your closet space for storing your shoes. You want them to be well organized and simple to locate. You also want the system to keep your shoes stored without damaging them. The amount of shoe storage space you are going to need depends on how many pairs of shoes you own.

However, if you have the room why not invest in a closet shoe organizer that is roomier than what you actually need. After all, you can’t ever have too many pairs of shoes! Shopping for some new pairs is a great way to reward yourself after the hard work and effort you put into getting your closet area organized.

Women’s Shoe Storage Chest

25 Pair Shoe Organizer

Decluttering before packing is an important aspect of preparing to move because it allows you to decide what you’ll need for the new house, what you’ll have room for, and what you won’t.

The most important thing to remember when decluttering is that you’ll be making room and getting rid of emotional baggage, whilst lowering your moving bills. An average four person house requires at least a seven tonne van to move, whilst a house that doesn’t declutter might need twice that!

Decluttering can be considered essential or heartless, but either way moving house is one of the best times to do a proper declutter. In fact sometimes, its the only ’spring clean’ that some people do. And while its always good to hang onto things of sentimental value, do you really need a newspaper from 1985 with an article about something that you needed to follow up within a week of the printing?

Get rid of any papers that you don’t need (though keep all important documentation). Consider donating any magazines, books, old toys or clothes in good condition to a local charity or sell them on Ebay or similar to make some cash.

These donations and sales make mental and space sense - you’re not wasting perfectly good items you will probably never use again, and you could sell the really good condition items in a variety of places. You could hold a yard sale, or garage or even a car boot sale - or if you have enough time, auction them online, either via a recognized site, or through your own website, if you have the know how. Getting rid of the things you don’t need is both very freeing and releasing, and can actually generate you some extra money for the move. You could even sell off surplus office or craft supplies if you no longer need the items, making your home office move leaner, and easier.