Many items need to be organized in a family command center. From papers to schedules, you do various tasks in this area of the home. Today, I am going to talk to you about board options for organizing a family command center. Follow along and see which Command Center Board Options would work best for […]
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Critical Areas to Visit When Organizing Older Parents
In this time of uncertainty, revisiting tasks that may have fallen by the wayside with you and your senior citizen parents is essential. These areas are not just for organizing your aging older parents. It's necessary for you, too, to get these items in an order that your beneficiaries can understand and take action on […]
Cranberry Coconut Oatmeal Cookies Recipe - gluten-free
Making cookies from home is just so much fun. You not only get to enjoy the cookies, but you also have a house filled with the aromatics of baking. Yum! This cookie recipe is called Cranberry Coconut Oatmeal Cookies recipe. It's a favorite in our home. This is a gluten-free recipe but can easily be converted […]
An Entire Year of Taking Action Challenges
We made it through another year, organizing our life and home. If you haven't been following me, you may not know that I do a monthly challenge at the beginning of most months to help you jump-start organizing your life. Taking Action Challenges helps when we just don't know where to start. It's like doing […]
How to Create a Holiday Season Planner to Save Money and Time
Planning is necessary so we can fit in everything and enjoy the holiday season. Starting from November and running through the middle of January, we tend to participate in or host several events, either at home or outside the house, during this time. To help you keep your expenses in check and your day more […]
How to Make a Useful Home Management Plan and Binder
We are so excited to share with you my new FREE ebook that contains 55-pages on how to make a home management binder!
Top 20 Pantry Organizing Tips Your Family Will Love
Pantries can get pretty messy, especially if you don't revisit it every few months. Since the pantry is a constantly modified and used space, having assigned areas in a pantry is very useful to keep the space organized. To help you get your pantry organized for you and your family, below I shared 20 pantry-organizing […]
How To Do This Month's Gratitude Challenge
This month, we will be participating in a gratitude challenge. Creating a gratitude list helps you truly appreciate what matters in your life. It starts today and runs for 15 days. It's simple and easy to manage. Just follow these steps. Good luck! Easy Steps to Do This Gratitude Challenge. First, write up something like […]
How to Organize Your Family Holiday Traditions
Starting to plan your holiday traditions? It seems early, but if you do holiday traditions around Thanksgiving, it isn't that early. So, let's plan, shall we? Every year in the United States, there are many holiday traditions you can do from Thanksgiving to the New Year, and immediately after, we take part in or host. […]
One Year of Monthly Organizing Challenges
To help you throughout the year, this post comprises of 12 monthly challenges to help you declutter and simplify your life. It is super easy to do; all you need to do is visit each post and do the challenge, and by the end of the year, you will be well on your way to […]
DIY Organizing Projects to Keep the Kitchen Running Smoothly
The kitchen is the heart of the home. And, when the kitchen is not running in tip-top shape, it will create problems each and every day for every family member that uses it, especially mom and dad. This week, we will be sharing the DIY organizing projects we created that you can do today and […]
A to Z Organizing Challenge
Why not organize BEFORE the new year? Don't wait till January. Or if you want to come back and do the challenge, then. Either way, here is a list of what to do on this A to Z list. It's fun and can be done with kids to show them the importance of going through […]
Easy Home Organizing Tips for People With Short Attention Spans
While doing my chores recently, I was going through my kids' rooms. They are teenagers now and, of course, don't listen to Mom's advice about how to keep a room neat and tidy even though I have 25+ years of experience. No bother; it's a typical mom-and-teen relationship. Anyway, I found that my kids, like […]
25 Areas to Regularly Clean a Dorm
When a student is new to a college, they are thrown into an environment where they encounter many people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in their immediate personal space, such as an apartment or dorm. They can easily get sick and catch anything from the common cold to some of the deadliest […]
How to have an incredibly organized backyard challenge
This month's challenge is to go outside and clear out the messy areas of your backyard. I have broken this challenge into five mini-challenges, so it's not as intimidating. Good luck! Here are the mini challenge zones to help you get your backyard super organized. First, start with your tool zones. Another name for it is […]
Step By Step Entryway Organization
When you enter your home, where do you place your stuff? Do you throw your coat over a chair? How about your bag? Do you place it on a nearby table? And, your shoes, do they end up near the front door in a pile? This post will talk about the steps for entryway organization. First, […]
DIY Freshman Year Reference Binder
As a parent, you may feel nervous when your college freshman leaves for school. It's a new and changing world for them and you. With all the information bombarding students, it can be overwhelming to keep track of everything when needed. Today, I am going to share with you a DIY Freshman Year Reference Binder […]
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Complete Each Task -The Most Important Organizing Advice
Can you find items when you need them? That may be because you or someone in your home never returned the thing to its original spot. We all have homes for something, whether we label them or not. I will share the essential organizing advice that no one told me as a kid, that I […]
8 Helpful Organizing Essentials For Dorm Life
Dorm life is a be-all and end-all for college students. It's where they study, eat, and have fun, where they meet new long-term friends and partners. It's where they experience living alone and having to take care of themselves. All and all, dorm life is scary but also a fun time for students. This post […]
10 Things to Do to Make Your Moving Process Seamless
There are many reasons why people move - Changing jobs, downsizing to a smaller home, their kids going off to college, wanting to be closer to work, wanting to be closer to their children, whichever reason will be a stressful time - sorry to say. But to make the process easier, I hope to help make your […]
Virtual Organizing Consultations
Many people have asked me for this service, so here it is! I am so happy to offer Virtual Organizing Consultations (AKA Virtual Organizing). What is Not Being Organized Costing you? The scenario? Do you encounter projects when organizing independently and don't know where to start? Do you feel overwhelmed and lost on how to […]
The Ultimate Guide To Organizing Herbs and Spices
If you have followed me for a while, you know that I do a quick dinner recipe once a week. So, my herbs and spices are key for keeping my space organized when cooking. This post will show tips on organizing herbs and spices to speed up your cooking and reduce the cost of accidently […]
The Legal Documents Talk with Aging Parents
After several weeks of discussing how to help your aging parents, this will be the final installment in this series. This post will help you discuss legal documents with your aging parents. It's a sensitive issue, so I'll leave it to the experts. I interviewed a family friend who does wills and estates at Bort […]
Helping Aging Parents with Online Accounts
Online accounts can help your parent make their life easier. These accounts can improve their quality of life, from depositing checks online to communicating with family members. This post talks about helping your aging parents with online accounts. But if your parents are on the internet, there are some areas you should review with them […]
Setting up Paper Management with Aging Parents
Now that we have started helping our parents downsize, we will need to assist them with managing their paperwork. Paper management for aging parents is more helpful when they are healthy, but it also benefits them when they are not. So, this paper management process is critical for everyone involved, including your aging parents. This […]
The Money Talk with Aging Parents
Discussing money with aging parents can be a challenging conversation. This post shares tips and tricks to help make the topic more approachable to your parents. This is near and dear to my heart because, as parents get older, they are more likely to experience identity theft. It is a growing trend in this nation. […]
How to Make a Spice Drawer Organizer in a Small Space
Organizing a small kitchen can be difficult. Finding the right places for the right items becomes a crafty challenge. We had this situation in our kitchen where the drawers on the side of the range (when fully open) are hard to get to. Basically, when you open the drawer, your backside will hit the fridge […]
Five Most Popular Home Organizing Posts For This Year
Today, I am taking a break from organizing to spend time with family and friends. So, I am sharing the top five popular home organizing posts for this year. I hope they inspire you to organize your home and give you ideas for areas to organize next year. The fifth most popular home organizing post […]
The Easy Way to Make a DIY Home Management Binder for your home
Having a home management binder to keep all your important information and tasks will not only help you stay on top of different things, but it will also help you be in control of your life and home and give you time to plan for things that are coming up. No one likes to be […]
How To Easily Clean Your Grill - The Complete Guide
How often do you clean your grill? Once a season, or twice a season, or never? Here is my complete guide on how to easily clean your grill. We do this a few times a season, and it helps with flare-ups and improves the flavor of the food we grill. To help you clean your […]
DIY Small Baking Cabinet Organization Idea
While I have a larger kitchen, my baking cabinet that houses all my baking pans is small. Follow along and see how I did my baking cabinet organization in this small 24 inches wide cabinet in my kitchen. Before small baking cabinet. This image is what this cabinet looked like before the organizing idea I […]
Four Doable Home Organizing Decluttering Challenges
We have shared our doable 52-week home organizing decluttering challenges ebooks for the last four years. As the year is about to begin, we want to get you prepared to start your new year with a new fresh way to get your home more organized and less cluttered. We will visit all four of these […]
Easy Tips to Make Your Holiday Season More Relaxing
The holiday season is so stressful for me. It is tough for me to calm down and relax between the kids' activities, the volunteer projects, my work schedule, shopping for gifts, and hosting parties. I don't think I am alone in this. I found these tips to make me more relaxed through the holidays. They are […]
How to Make Today Productive
Do you feel like you are not productive during your day? There are many ways to improve your productivity during the day, from reducing distractions to combining smaller, similar tasks. Today, I will show you how you can be more productive. But the first thing that needs to be done to truly have a productive […]
Essential Baking Supplies in the Kitchen
For a well-organized kitchen, it's best to organize the areas into zones, the baking zone, the prep zone, etc... Here is one location that even the kids would like to set up with you. "The Baking Zone" Who doesn't like a sweet now and again? I am not a big baker myself, but my family […]
How to Organize Frequently Used Kitchen Drawers
I've been organizing clients for many years and found that particular areas in the kitchen need to be organized to make it a functional space to work in each day. A kitchen is a vital part of the home that, if not well-organized, can easily become disorganized and cause you to waste a lot of […]
Easy Weekly Challenges to Completely Change Your Home Life
This year marks the 4th year we have done these weekly challenges ebooks! I hope you have taken advantage of this free 52-week challenge to organize your life. The goal for this year's weekly challenge ebook is to help you improve what is important in your home life while streamlining and removing cluttered items. Read […]
The 5 Popular Home Organizing Posts for This Year
This year was super interesting here at Sabrina's Organizing blog. We had some posts that went viral and others that came back from the dead because of COVID. This year was about getting rid of stuff and revisiting the areas we forgot about since we had that extra time we never had. Today, I will […]
5 DIY Popular Projects for the Home
This year has been an amazing one here at Sabrina's Organizing blog. Some of our DIY posts created a few years ago became popular just because of the pandemic. Like our DIY Party Ideas posts, other posts became less popular just because of COVID, understandably. Let's recap our DIY Popular projects for the home and […]
How to Make a Fabulous Beverage Station that will amaze your entire family
Having a beverage station in your home will organize all your drinks and glassware, allowing for an easy and relaxing morning routine. Let's create a beverage station in your home. I love this idea! We have one in our home and use it all the time. The kids love it! It doesn't need to be big. […]
How to Make a DIY Command Station Magnet Board
This week I will be sharing a DIY project that I did with an old magnet marker board. The board itself would stain whenever you would use a dry erase marker, so I decided that it wasn't going to be a markerboard any longer. Here's how I cleaned up this board and transformed it into […]