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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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How to Set up a Portable Office

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:31-06:00November 9th, 2016|Categories: Paper Management, Planning, Productivity, Storage|Tags: file tote, increase productivity, rolling cart, storage|

A portable office can mean different things to different people. To some it means working out of their car, to others it can mean the ability to work in various rooms around their home, or bringing work home from the office. Actually, anything that can be moved from one place to another makes it portable. There can be a variety of reasons why we have a need for a portable office. Some may have no spare room or space for a home office. Others may not like to work in the space where they set up their home [...]

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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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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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An Organized Pet Mom is a Happy Pet Mom

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:38-06:00May 18th, 2014|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips|Tags: pets, routines, storage|

It’s no secret. If we have pets we love them and want them to be healthy and happy. And when our pets are happy, we are happy. Living with pets is such a wonderful experience and also a big responsibility. There are many factors to consider. They are family members, so we need to consider them in our daily activities just as we do with our human family members. Getting organized for our pets will help us to enjoy them even more and will make our lives easier. Read on for some ideas to organize for your pets. Routines Pets, like children thrive [...]

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Organizing Your Bathroom to Enhance Your Morning Routine

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-27T11:47:38-06:00January 13th, 2014|Categories: Home Organization|Tags: morning routine, organizing, personal care, storage|

The bathroom is probably the most used room or rooms in your home. Bathrooms will typically contain all the items you need for personal care. They can yield a lot of traffic throughout the course of the day, but morning routines typically start in the bathroom. That is, after you put on the coffee. It’s essential that everyone has a morning routine. They keep us on track to get us where we need to be on time. Creating a routine takes some thought, practice, and tweaking along the way. You need to have the tools where you get ready to keep on [...]

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Creating Peace at Home Through Organizing

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-03-25T13:26:43-05:00December 15th, 2013|Categories: Home Organization, Peace|Tags: organizing, peace, storage, tips|

How does your home feel to you? When you walk in the door, do you feel a sense of calm or chaos? Are you happy to be home or feel like screaming as you run out the door? Do you know why you feel this way? It could be for a lot of reasons. Each of us has a lot going on in our lives at any given moment. We need a place to go to relax from the stress of the day, to be at peace. That place will be different for each of us but as natural philosopher, [...]

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Creating an Organized Laundry Room

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:40-06:00November 18th, 2013|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips|Tags: laundry, organized, storage|

A very common organizing challenge for many of my clients is laundry. We all have clothes for different roles and the number of roles we have is different for everyone. More roles could mean different wardrobes for each of those roles. There could be school clothes, work clothes, play clothes, etc. Not only does your family generate dirty clothes, but there will be towels and bed linens as well. This means that you could have an overwhelming amount of laundry on a regular basis, that at some point, you will have to clean. Having a lot of clothes, and the need [...]

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On-The-Go Personal Storage

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:40-06:00September 9th, 2013|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Storage|Tags: clutter, containers, purses, storage, totes|

Everyone has personal things that they need to keep with them at all times. Identification is probably the most important personal storage item. House, car keys, cell phone and legal tender such as cash, credit or debit cards also top the list of very important items. Other items you may need outside the home that may be specific to each person could be personal care items. Some items we take from home could be specific to where we go, such as school, work, or to the gym. The items we take to these places are more likely larger than the items noted [...]

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