Getting Organized - How to Get Started Without Losing Your Mind

It is a new year and many people resolve to get organized, so we thought we would talk about how to do just that. We encourage our readers to leave comments and share your organiztional tips too. Together, we will organize the world - one messy closet at a time!


Park-a-Purse - Purse Organizer

Have you ever felt like everything around you is in total disarray and you don't know where to begin to get organized? Of course, I have never had that problem (LOL) but I have come up with a way to de-stress while I declutter. You need to choose one spot in one room to begin. It sounds pretty obvious, but in reality that is why it is often so difficult to begin organizing. Here is what you need to do:

1. Choose one drawer or one cabinet or one shelf in a closet.


2. Pull everything out.


3. Clean the surfaces.


4. Throw away anything old, damaged, out of date, or things you have not used in the last six months.


5. If you have a bunch of small items, group them by category, put them in a clear plastic container and label them.


6. Put everything you are keeping back into the drawer/cabinet/closet and close the door!


7. Throw out the trash. Recycle or donate items when possible.


8. Walk away and give yourself a treat! You have just started on your way to being organized.


9. Repeat this process every couple of days and before you know it your closets and cabinets will be clean!

If you need some organizational items such as plastic containers, closet organizers, drawer organizers, etc. check out the following orgaznizational supply stores and you'll find some terrific sources of organizing tools at some really great prices.

Up to 75% off at StacksandStacks.com

10% off $100.00 or more purchase (Coupon Code: A9639) You must use the coupon code at checkout to get the discount.


Come on back to our site often for more tips and articles.
Don't forget to leave us some of your great tips. We look forward to hearing from you!

Karen

A New Focus for Find More Facts

Hi All,

We've decided to make some improvements to the Find More Facts blog in order to make it easier to read and more relevant for you, our most excellent readers. We are going to refocus the blog a bit to include only home and food related posts. Well okay, we'll probably throw a few other things in there just to keep it interesting, but for the most part that will be the focus. We will be moving the "business" parts of the blog to their own special blog and we will let you know when that is up and running.

We have changed the name a bit to "Find More Facts About Home & Food to reflects these changes. Our URL has not change, however. Also, we will be working to make the navigation around the site a bit easier through the use of targeted "Labels" for the posts that you can use as sort of a table of contents for the entire blog. Scroll down a bit to find this in the sidebar. It will be weeded out a bit to make it easier to navigate.

We have already started with some of the changes. You will notice more home and food related product reviews. We have added a weekly produce tips feature. Of course, we are still continuing all of our great home and food related tips and articles of interest. We'll do our best to keep everything light, informative, and fun.

We hope you like the changes. Let us know what you think and if there are any particular features you would like to see on the site.

As always, thanks for reading!

Rick & Karen

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