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Options to Store Spices

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:27-06:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Kitchen, Organizing Tips, Storage|Tags: containers, spices, storage|

Spices & herbs are an integral part of the cooking experience. Whether you are baking a delicious dessert, or cooking a yummy meal for your family, chances are that you are using spices in some fashion. Some prefer fresh spices & herbs to those that use dried, perhaps due to convenience. Using fresh spices & herbs requires a larger quantity than the dried version, according to Martha Stewart. There is also information in Martha Stewart’s post on how to store fresh cut herbs. While using fresh spices & herbs may be more desirable than using dried, it is less convenient [...]

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P.E.A.C.E. Step 2 – Eliminate Excess

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:27-06:00February 21st, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Peace|Tags: categories, organizing process, purge|

Several years ago I wrote a post called, ‘Creating Peace at Home Through Organizing’. Click on the link to read the full article. The article explains why decluttering and organizing the spaces in your home is so important to achieve peace in your life. In that post I used the acronym PEACE to describe the five steps in the organizing process. The acronym was created to depict the result of organized spaces - peace. This post is the second in the series to provide more details for each step in the organizing process. You can read the first step by clicking [...]

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4 Strategies For Going Digital

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:28-06:00February 7th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Paper Management|Tags: computer, digital, paperless|

What does it actually mean to say you’re going digital? We live in the digital age and so many actions we take involve a computer of some type. There are laptops, electronic readers, smart phones, iPads, electronic devices for healthcare, voice recognition devices, etc. The internet sends data through the ether to its intended destination as a form of communication. Companies of all shapes and sizes are going digital. When you make an online purchase, you enter credit card information. When you make in-person purchases you have the option to swipe or insert a credit card or put your phone [...]

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P.E.A.C.E. Step 1 – Put Like Items Together

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:28-06:00January 24th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Peace|Tags: categories, organizing process, sort|

Several years ago I wrote a post called, ‘Creating Peace at Home Through Organizing’. Click on the link to read the full article. The article explains why decluttering and organizing the spaces in your home is so important to achieve peace in your life. In that post I used the acronym PEACE to describe the five steps in the organizing process. The acronym was created to depict the result of organized spaces - peace. This post is the first in the series to provide more details for each step in the organizing process. You’ve already determined that you want to [...]

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Fold T Shirts & File in Drawers

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:29-06:00August 16th, 2017|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips|Tags: closet, clothes, file tshirts, organized|

Everyone has t shirts. Not everyone stores their t shirts the same way. Unless you hang them on hangers, you probably fold t shirts. Some store them on a closet shelf, while others store them in drawers. When you store folded t shirts on shelves, you can easily see the colors which makes it easy to choose the t shirt you want to wear. That’s not usually the case when they are stored in a drawer. Since they’re stacked, you can’t easily see the t shirts on the bottom of the stack. This may be one reason why we wear [...]

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Prevent Clutter & Save Money – Visit Your Local Library

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:30-06:00February 8th, 2017|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Rightsizing, Storage|Tags: clutter, organized, storage|

What is the best way to prevent clutter & save money? As the title says, visit your local library. They have a myriad of books, magazines, cd’s, dvd’s, & books on tape. Not sure if I missed anything, but all of these items that we buy can lead to a whole lot of clutter. Clutter that we have to maintain in some fashion, which has associated costs. To keep them organized so you can find what you need when you need it, there is a storage component. You may need to purchase storage if you don’t already have something you [...]

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Media Storage-How to Determine Your Needs

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:31-06:00January 20th, 2017|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Rightsizing, Storage|Tags: bins, media storage, organized|

Media storage can be challenging for many reasons. Even though we’re living in the on-demand digital age, many of us have physical media that we still use. Just like items that we can touch, we need to find a place for media to live and that means storage. Typically, we store our things where we use them. That makes our things easily accessible where and when we need them, and we know what we own so we don’t buy duplicates. As mentioned in previous posts, our belongings need to be proportionate to our living spaces. With that in mind, [...]

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Life Situations That Create a Need to Declutter

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:31-06:00January 4th, 2017|Categories: Decluttering, Downsizing, Home Organization, Moving, Organizing Tips, Rightsizing|Tags: after a death, clutter, declutter, moving, organized, storage|

Life situations that create a need to declutter are many. These situations typically create a change to your living dynamic. Many are resistant to change and it’s understandable, especially at those times when you feel a loss. However, sometimes it helps to take an action to work through that sense of loss. Decluttering is a liberating feeling and may just be the right action for you. Life situations occur whenever there is a change in your living situation. This becomes an opportune time to declutter and organize for the new to come into your life. The scenarios below provide some insight [...]

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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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