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Junk Drawers = Miscellaneous

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:31-06:00December 21st, 2016|Categories: Home Organization, Kitchen, Organizing Tips, Storage|Tags: clutter, kitchen, organized, storage, stress|

Junk drawers are equivalent to a box marked ‘miscellaneous’. Organizers tend to shy away from those labels. Why you ask? Because it’s a catchall phrase that means that the items in the junk drawer or misc box have no assigned homes. And we don’t actually know what is inside this junk drawer or misc box. We have to dig through said drawers or boxes to find what we are looking for. Another reason could be that these items have assigned homes, but because we are busy, it’s just quicker to stash it away in a nearby drawer than to put [...]

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Storing Your Recipes

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-12-17T09:04:34-06:00December 7th, 2016|Categories: Home Organization, Kitchen, Organizing Tips, Storage|Tags: kitchen, recipes, storage|

Storing your recipes can become challenging. They come to us in many ways. Some are handed down from our Moms in books or cut out of magazines, or even handwritten on index cards. Now that we are in the digital age, some are printed from emails or from websites, and there are apps on our electronic devices to find & store them. Everyone is different and your preference for storing your recipes could be different from others. As mentioned above, there are typically 2 different mediums of recipes; paper and digital. You can use a combination of the 2 mediums, [...]

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Mindfulness of Organizing

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-03-04T14:04:00-06:00September 26th, 2016|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips|Tags: clutter, organized, purge, storage|

Mindfulness is a very important component of the organizing process. When I work with clients, we work on the concept of mindfulness as it pertains to organizing. Organizing comes naturally to many, but not to everyone. It’s a skill that can be learned, and being aware of some basic concepts as you go about your daily activities, is key to organizing your spaces to keep them organized. The concepts below are simple, yet effective. Some you may have thought about already, and some may be new to you. For those that have challenges organizing their things, I encourage you to [...]

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Minimalism – The Path to Health & Happiness

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:32-06:00August 25th, 2016|Categories: Downsizing, Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Rightsizing|Tags: clutter, downsize, organized, purge|

There have been a lot of posts on the internet lately about minimalism. It seems to be surfacing in a lot of ways everywhere. As an organizer and Feng Shui enthusiast, I love the concept. The idea of letting go of items that aren’t necessary is simplicity in the most basic form. Eliminating unnecessary items, clutter, allows the energy (chi) to flow freely through your living spaces. Good energy flow allows for health and happiness. Everyone I know tells me they have too much stuff. I hear that from pretty much every client that I have ever worked with. [...]

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Options For Lid Storage

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:32-06:00August 14th, 2016|Categories: Home Organization, Kitchen, Organizing Tips|Tags: clutter, kitchen, organized, storage|

Do you find it difficult to organize and store all the lids that you have for pots & pans or plasticware? I know I did, so that’s why I decided to write a post on lid storage. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some are flexible, and some are not. Nesting works great for the items the lids accompany, but storing the lids is another story. Your cabinets can become a tangled mess of lids which makes it difficult to find the lid you need. I want to share with you how I turned my lid chaos into organized [...]

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4 Options to Securely Purge Old Papers

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-02-07T16:51:21-06:00February 9th, 2016|Categories: Home Organization, Paper Management|Tags: papers, purge|

In my younger years I kept old papers such as, statements, receipts and cancelled checks for every personal business transaction. My parents didn’t teach me to do this, I just did it because that’s what they did. No one ever told me how long to keep these papers, so needless to say I had quite a bit that I had been storing for many years. Fast forward to now, the digital age. So many business transactions take place online, over the internet. We use credit and debit cards instead of checks or cash to purchase products and services. There are [...]

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Get Organized to Beat The Winter Blues!

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:33-06:00January 10th, 2016|Categories: Home Organization, Reduce Stress|Tags: clutter, overwhelmed, stress|

Here in the Midwest, the weather can get pretty ugly after the turn of the New Year. The temps dip to well below freezing and we sometimes get a lot of snow, and dare I say it, ICE! It actually looks pretty if you’re looking at it from inside a warm house, and you don’t have to go out. The kids love it when it snows a lot. They wait in anticipation of seeing their school pop up on the list of closings on the early morning news. Whether we see milder temps or get blasted full force with winter [...]

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Where Do I Begin to Get Organized?

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-04-17T12:16:35-05:00December 16th, 2015|Categories: Home Organization|Tags: clutter, decluttering, motivation, overwhelmed, reduce stress|

Image courtesy of stockimages / FreeDigitalPhotos.net This is a question I hear a lot from those that are overwhelmed with clutter; where do I begin to get organized?. Things seem to pile up when we aren’t looking and become clutter before we know it. At some point, something catches your eye and wham! It hits you in the face like a ton of bricks. Life comes at us fast and we don’t always have the time to keep up with daily decluttering activities. Because of that we may not always notice that things are getting out of hand. The [...]

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Inherited Items Can Quickly Become Clutter

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:34-06:00October 11th, 2015|Categories: Home Organization|Tags: after a death, clutter, too much stuff|

Image courtesy of surasakiStock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net How many of you have inherited items from a loved one that passed away? How many of you kept all those things whether you had room for them or not? And how many of you now have a cluttered house, basement or garage with inherited items? Anyone that received inherited tangible items can relate to this dilemma to some degree. Most of us that are not just starting out in our adult lives have our homes furnished to our liking. This could mean that we have little to no space to add furniture, [...]

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3 Maintenance Strategies to Keep Your Spaces Organized

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:34-06:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Home Organization, Maintenance, Organizing Tips|Tags: maintenance, organized|

Image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net You read some books, maybe took a class, engaged a good friend to help, planned it out and got it done. All of your spaces are organized! It feels good doesn’t it? Eliminating clutter can be liberating. Having a home for all of your belongings breathes a breath of fresh air into your living spaces, it creates peace of mind. Now that your spaces are organized, you want to keep them that way so the peace will remain. No matter how you created your systems, you need to take some steps to [...]

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