Getting Organized
This is where you will find tips, tricks, articles, and information on anything that I find O-C-D-Licious. I like my house to be functional, but also have style. You CAN do both. Check out these blog posts to find out more about how. If you’ve got a great idea, please email it to me so that we can hook up my readership. I’m all about communal learning and simplified living!
Don’t Stay Constipated. Take a Dump on your Desk.
Today, I was constipated, and I couldn't hold it all in anymore. I took a dump on my desk. I did. It gave me relief. I feel so much better and more healthy to have everything out. I was proud of myself for it. I showed [...]
Photocopies for Hanging Things
First I saw this on Pinterest, then Hubs saw it on Lifehacker. We were hanging a new gadget in our garage, and I thought of this. Why not, right?! Hubs thought I was nuttier than a Payday, but went along with me for the sake of my good mood. [...]
5 EASY Ways to Prevent Clutter!
One of the very best ways to kick clutter out of your life is to prevent it from ever appearing. Here are five easy steps you can take to get on the road to a less-cluttered life! Do It Now & Do It Right! There is a whole blog [...]
5 Ways to Start Kicking the Clutter
Is it all too much? We have all been there. Your to-do list is longer than Santa's giving list at Christmas, the bills, the house, and the other demands on you are just mounting too high. It's overwhelming. How are you going to do it all!? Well, here's the [...]
The Cost of Clutter
You know that you have too much stuff, but did you know that that stuff was draining your resources? It really and truly is. I've done the research and you are being robbed blind, by YOUR STUFF! Check it out: So let me see here... Clutter makes me less [...]
Definition of Clutter
Clutter is more than just the piles of paper lying around your living space. It is anything in your life that you don't want to be there. It makes you uncomfortable. It gets in your way. It frustrates you. It isn't easy to get rid of because at one [...]
A Table for Two
This is the story of how I made an old table into a new fun place for my kiddos to play. The issue: We had a table that we WANTED to use that was big enough for two kids to sit side by side and play on, but we [...]
New Year • New Plan
New Year's Resolutions. Goal setting. Annual themes and projects. Whichever perspective you choose, this time of year is a time of reflection, reevaluation, and renewal. Personally, I am glad 2011 is over. Many of my friends seem to mirror my view, based upon their Facebook status reports and the [...]
Living on Purpose • Paying Attention and Setting Limits
Recently, I made a very important decision: From now on, I am going to live life on purpose. For a long time, I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. I was wasting a lot of time, talent, money, and energy running around trying to do whatever seemed [...]
Fulfilling or Filling Up? | Living in Inner Space
Remember how I said I was cleaning out my house? I want to use it up, use it up, bless others with unused stuff, and only bring things in that my family uses and loves. It seems to me that our society promotes filling up our homes rather than creating [...]
apple picking ladder does double duty!
Once again, I have found a gem at the store up the street. They were selling these apple picking ladders for $100. I told them I'd give them $40. He said ok, and into the van it went. I love this ladder because it holds the blankets in my living [...]
Running in Circles
Is this you? It took me 30 years to realize that trying to please others is like a dog running in circles trying to catch its tail. Even if the dog catches the tail, it is biting itself in the rear end. The dog looks insane and winds up [...]
Vintage or Old Stuff – Either way? Awesome.
Old products were made better (in many cases), and the packaging had reusability. I sometimes wish that current vendors would follow suit, but it isn't to be in this economy. Anyhow, during my husband's recent deployment I took up a new hobby: going to antique stores. I needed a couple [...]
Its all just too much
I was watching The Nate Show a while back and he had a woman on that said she was super organized. She had everything in bins and on shelves. She had everything labeled. It sounded great to me! Then her husband came out and said "Yeah, ok - but [...]
The Wicked Playroom
This week I had a MAJOR creative burst in relation to my children's playroom. The following four pictures give you an idea of what I have to show for it! The first project came from the hanging of a PotteryBarn Advent Calendar that I found on deep discount. I [...]
Laundry Is No Longer A Load of Trouble
Project: Operation Functional Utility Room Goals: To establish a work area on top of the washer and dryer, and to free up space for a standing drying rack for my cloth diapering/clothing needs. Problems: I don't want to spend the money to build a custom piece because I am [...]
Social Media
A friend of mine posted this video on her Facebook wall this week. It is so true. We live in an era where texts are preferred by most over phone calls, actually handwriting a letter is a seriously special occasion, and land-line phones are going the way of the [...]
Organizing Your Clutter in a Crafty Way
I have been trying to reduce the amount of random craft materials that I have lying around to gain space and make good on my investment. Recently, I was looking in an organization magazine and I saw little bins that were covered in pretty designs. I was inspired to [...]
Three cats and no litterbox
I have three cats, and as much as I love them, I hate cleaning litter boxes. I decided a month ago to stop cleaning my cat box. Forever. Here is my story, and why it was a great decision: This is not my cat, [...]
forty bags in forty days again
Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, is quickly approaching. As a Catholic, I will be spending the 40 days leading up to Easter self-evaluating, giving of myself, praying, and attempting to better myself out of reverence and rememberence of Jesus Christ's 40 days in the desert,his ultimate sacrifice, and [...]
Sold! (How I Helped My House To Sell)
I am not a real estate agent, and I don't profess to be a pro at staging and/or selling homes. All that I can tell you is that in 2008-2009 when the real estate market was tanking, I sold my home. If I'd had the choice, I would have [...]
All Used Up
Maybe I am the only one. Maybe I am getting old and cheap. I don't know. But I will tell you right now, I derive an inappropriate amount of glee from using things up. When I use up ALL of the face wash in my bottle (seen here), ALL [...]
Rack Em Up and Roll Em Out
My husband is active duty military. We move more than the average family, and because of that much of my decor, furniture, and organization materials have to reflect a mix-and-match style. Each house is different, our family grows and changes, and everything seems to be shifted in each move [...]
I had my OWN back!
I know I've been talking about this tons and tons, but PLEASE back up all of your files! PLEASE! I was very lucky this time around. Though I was not as stringent on backing up my files in general, I did stick to my process for photography. I take [...]