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Happy Fall Ya'll,
For all good reasons, over the last few weeks my home has been turned upside down. With the holidays approaching, kids heading off to college, and family visiting, I decided to redecorate one of our bedrooms into a guest room and clean our home top to bottom.
Over the past few months I have been making decisions about the design of the space including furniture and decor. I decided to keep it simple and economical with furniture from IKEA. After purchasing and building the furniture (hubby helped) I went shopping for colors in bedding, curtains, and decorative items. While I am not quite finished, I plan to showcase the result in before and after photos in my November blog along with GREAT tips on how to organize your guestroom and bathroom.
Our next home project is remodeling our boys bathroom. Thirteen years of use by three boys, now 20, 18, and 15, has taken its toll and the bathroom needs a makeover.
In addition to these projects, my sweet Mother-in-law has been cleaning my home for the past three days. She has been washing ivy, cleaning windows, curtains and more. So as you can imagine our home is hopping right now.
All this activity reminds me of those that move and have no help purging the unwanted items, packing/unpacking, lining their shelves and drawers, shopping and building organizing products, space planning, organizing, and accessorizing. It must be a daunting task!
While I am so thankful to have family that supports my projects, you may not be so blessed. Get Organized! can assist you in your current home with de-cluttering or decorating for the holidays, or help with packing in preparation for moving to a new home.
Thanks to those of you who submitted entries to our Pamper a Mom Giveaway. We will be announcing the winner on our Facebook page on October 31st. We are looking forward to giving a mom some much needed encouragement.
As always, if you are not a fan of our Facebook page yet, like us to here about upcoming events and contests.
Enjoy,
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Time Management
If you are a techie and love electronic applications, you might like this web-based organizational tool. It's called Basecamp HQ and makes project management a breeze. It creates to-do lists, sends messages, updates schedules, and keeps all partners in the project up-to-date. This application can be used for personal or business projects.
If your current project is a bathroom remodel, Basecamp HQ will keep your family members and/or designers informed of the progress, keep track of the budget, and send reminders of tasks to be done.
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For the Holidays:
An Organizing Tool for
Your Family Recipes
Trying to figure out what to do with all those recipes that you have stashed on a kitchen shelf, crammed in another cookbook or tucked away in a kitchen drawer? It is time to get organized before the holidays with the "Recipe Nest"!
You have choices of the cover design:
You also have choices about how to store it and use it:
 
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Get Organized! for Emergencies
Earlier this month, Dallas, Texas, had two small earthquakes. It made me wonder if my family would be prepared for an emergency or a national disaster. I think as Americans we assume that a national disaster will not happen to us, but one never knows.
While you may not be able to take everything you might want or need if you are forced to leave your home, you can pack the essentials. First, make a list of items you think you might need to survive for at least 72 hours without standard utilities such as water, electricity, or gas. Consider also that telephones might not be functioning either. Some examples would be critical medication, first-aid supplies, and if possible, three days of food such as pull-top cans of soup or packages of jerky. A more unusual item to pack is a Magnesium Fire Starter. This is perfect for starting a quick fire and can be purchased at Walmart or a sporting goods store.
Lastly, pack a local and national paper map. If navigation systems go out in your car, or telephones do not work, you may be able to locate destinations with the map. In our family we have a meeting place for a local emergency such as a house fire and another for a national disaster. We know that whenever we are able, we have a place to regroup as a family.
For a list of supplies that FEMA recommends go to Ready.gov.
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Organizing or Downsizing for Seniors? We can help!
Are your parents or in-laws facing this situation? Maybe they are ready to move into an assisted living location, a retirement home, or even in with you. This can be a difficult time for seniors to make such a big change, and for you as you seek to help your parents and take care of your own family at the same time.
A few suggestion about starting this process:
Consider creating a space plan for the new location based on the furniture that will be making the move. One of our past clients decided to take her entire bedroom suite because she wanted to keep the pieces together. However, the entire set would not fit in their one bedroom retirement home. The client was so attached to the set, that she chose to move up to a two bedroom apartment to accommodate a dresser.
In this case, the client had to pay more rent to keep the $200 dresser, plus pay a mover to transfer the furniture from the one bedroom to the two bedroom apartment. So be sure to measure the furniture and plan the space before the move.
The process of moving a parent or parents creates the perfect time to document the history and value of special family items. Either you or the parent can make a list of the item, the age, place of purchase, value, and what makes it special to the family. For example: "This set of real silver was given to us by our parents when we married in x year. We had it appraised recently at $$."
Once the list is created it can be transferred to a digital file and updated as needed.
Another option is to create description tags and attach to the items. Placing a note on the bottom of an antique lamp will save it from being donated or thrown away by mistake.
Moving time is also an opportunity to help seniors organize important paperwork. It is often a challenge for children to locate medical or family documents when they are needed. Get Organized! recommends a paper management system called File Solutions ($38) in about 60% of the homes we organize. This system is color coded and divides paperwork into four areas: personal, financial, taxes and insurance, and lifestyle. File Solutions includes a document index allowing all members of a family to retrieve documents.
Lastly, make sure you are the right person for the job. Moving a parent can be stressful, so be sure your relationship will not suffer during the transition. Moving takes time and energy and flexibility. If you decide that you need help, Get Organized! works with seniors and their adult children with purging, space planning, packing, unpacking, going through papers, setting up systems, and more. Only you can decide what is right for your family.
If you are interested in using the File Solutions system mentioned above, you can purchase it through the link below.
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Savvy Ways
to Save
Plan a pantry week!
Challenge yourself to focus on your pantry for one week every four months. During that week (or more than one week if you can) try not to go to the grocery. Use leftovers from the fridge, check every shelf of the pantry, or unbury freezer items. You probably have more food in the house than you realize. Make it fun for the whole family to create meals together and take the money you save to do something fun, pay down a debt, or give to a local church or a needy family.
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 Get Organized! Wants to Hear from You!
We often organize bathrooms including counters, cabinets, and drawers of make-up. Tell us how you keep, store, and organize
your make-up.
Do you use a make-up bag, do you keep everything in drawers, do you have a make-up basket, or maybe you just keep everything on the countertop?
If you are struggling with a solution for this organizational problem yourself, watch for suggestions in our December newsletter. If you have some great ideas, let us hear from you and we will share the best answers in December month.
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