25 of My Best Organizing Hacks!

What is a "hack" - as in organizing hack? It's modifying or customizing everyday {organizing} ideas to improve their functionality. So, I thought that showing you the best organizing hacks that I've ever done would be a fun way to start the year! Here are 25 of them!

5 Easy Ways to Organize After Christmas

Chances are that you're about to take down ALL that Christmas decor and resolve to get organized or live another year in clutter. Kid clutter is one of the hardest things to clear out, isn't it? What can you do about all that?

P.S. I apologize in advanced that my comments are not working on my blog. Since updating the blog last week, there are a few things left to fix and that is one of them. TIA!

New Year, New Look! Check Out the Fabulous New Design!

I am very excited to announce that Organizing Made Fun has a BRAND NEW look! Yay! I have been itching to change my blog design up this year to reflect my true personality and have made the blog much more accessible to finding all that good organizing information that you've been asking for.

So, now, when you click over to my blog and want to search for something, you can find it in the drop down menu, or above my header you can see all the categories - I've got hundred and hundreds of motivational and inspirational posts about organizing, do it yourself, decorating, and natural living.

Plus, everything is categorized and ORGANIZED in a way that helps you to find what you need! How's that for functional? 

I also got myself an update! I may look a little older, but this headshot is a lot more updated! So, go OVER to the blog and check out the new look! Click on the header at the top of this page or the "read more" here at the bottom or any of the links I've put in this email! 

I've also updated my home tour so that all the rooms are up to date - although, there are a few that I've got plans for this year! Let me know what you think of the new update on the blog - I'd love to hear! Thanks for following along...

 

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How to Get Those Random Papers Organized!

One of the questions I get from you is WHERE to put all those random papers that come and go into your household. I know, I know...it's a pain and they show up everywhere. So, I asked professional organizer, Jill Annis of Simply Organized to help us out! She's going to give you some great ideas!

Where do you put all the random papers that end up on the kitchen table or counter?

Big Bear Shelving Solution + Giveaway

Big Bear Shelving Solution asked me to try out their shelving brackets. We have already done our whole garage in shelving and did not have another area to use them in our home. So, my assistant, Tiffany, had an opportunity to try out these shelving brackets and is sharing her experience! THEN, you'll get a chance to win a set for yourself - just in time for the new year and getting organized! So, click over and enter and learn more about this great shelving system for your garage or space!

Homeowner Woes!

Well, as much as I absolutely LOVE living in an older home, it DOES come with some problems from time to time. We got to experience that recently. I thought I'd share this with you as we are getting ready to make some changes and I hope to blog more about the DIY and updates on that, too. 

We are hoping to purchase  a used RV this year. In anticipation of this, we are putting in an RV "parking area" in our backyard. We have the perfect spot - the kids play area. Now that the kids are older, they aren't using that anymore. So, we decided that this would make a great place to park our future RV. 

FIVE Ways to Feel Good about Clean this Christmas

Every year I spend the week after Thanksgiving scrambling to get all our Christmas decorations up before we have all our company over the next weekend - since we are gone the whole Thanksgiving weekend. We frequently have people over, but Christmas time we have even more over than usual. So, I've come up with five #CleanFeelsGood moments that I've used to stay on top of having my house clean and organized when all that company shows up.

Transitions in Organization

My assistant, Tiffany, is here to show you how to help your toddler more organized! Don't have a toddler? Maybe you have a teenager? She does too! I'm sure if you don't, you know of someone who does -- share this post with them!


Have you ever stopped and realized that something around your house is suddenly a disaster? You used to have a very orderly system that keeps you moving along quickly and all of the sudden you can't find what you need, you find yourself tripping over things and feeling irritated every time you are in that area. You think to yourself "What happened? How did I become so disorganized?" I am here to tell you it may not be you! You may just be in transition. Parenting children from 1-18 years old has shown me the need to continually manage the transition times of life if I am going to keep everything running smoothly in the long run.

11 Ways to Get Organized at Christmas!

It's the time of year when Christmas starts and you need help with all that Christmas stuff - organizing, packing, labeling, you name it! I've got you covered. For the past four years, I've been showing you all kinds of great Christmas ideas, and I've got a collection of them all here to keep you motivated through Christmas! Click on any of the links so you can find all kinds of inspiring ideas for Christmas organizing!

November's Thanks

This Thanksgiving I am so thankful for each of you who read and follow Organizing Made Fun.  
We've had a great November and are looking forward to even more excitement next month!