Tag: organization
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Simplify: Give yourself permission
For many of us on the path towards simplifying our belongings, one of the biggest hindrances we face is feeling as if it’s somehow wrong to get rid of our things: it feels wasteful, and besides, we need it again someday! In a world that emphasizes more-more-more, it feels strange to do the opposite. Once…
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Workbox Crate: simplified homeschooling
Y’all, this is in the category of life-changing as far as homeschooling my 7-year-old. I’m not exaggerating; we’ve only been doing this a couple of weeks but it has already made a HUGE difference in our days. My main goal for this was to save my sanity by giving my active girl some much-needed purpose…
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Open Floorplan Homeschool Room: Improved Again!
Every year I change our school room. Every. Single. Year. Partly this is because I may have a not-so-teensy compulsion to rearrange and reorganize. But it’s also because our family’s needs change from one year to the next. Last year, for instance, we had no little people. (You can see last year’s homeschool room here.)…
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Old Chest of Drawers = Craft Supply Center
I’m trying to make our home more creativity-encouraging. Part of my plan involves providing plenty of art and craft supplies — and making it easy to find things, and easy to put them away! A major step towards that goal was finding a chest of drawers to store art/craft supplies neatly but out of sight…
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Organization and Decluttering 2012
A few weeks before the end of the year, I started a list of all those things I intend to do but usually forget when I actually have a bit of free time. Most were in some way related to organizing and/or de-cluttering. After Christmas, I didn’t have many other obligations, and Ken was at…