MASTER ORGANIZING

Organizing MacGyver Style:  Use old containers like cereal boxes or plastic apple containers to store decorative items.

Clear containers work great for letting you know exactly what you have!

Do you find yourself randomly tossing your clutter into the nearest closet, container, cabinet or room just before visiting guests arrive at your home?  Well, let’s stop that habit right now.  It’s all about first setting up a space that you love, so that you are motivated to keep it clutter free.  Besides purging your [...]

Here’s an organizing tip from Kuya (aka my Dad)… after thoroughly cleaning them, reuse glass and plastic bottles as containers to separate nuts, bolts, screws, nails, washers and other objects in your garage.

In this case my pops used sport drinks, juice, and coffee bottles.

Although these bottles are see through, remember to label the bottles cause [...]

Resource Furniture has some pretty neato space saving furniture!

Talk about getting the most use out of your space!

Photo provided by Terry Johnston
Today’s Organizing MacGyver Style concerns coffee filters.  There are over 20 uses for coffee filters (via My Second Shelf Life).  These are my top 5 favorite uses of coffee filters when organizing your home:
1. Protect your China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.
2. Use filters to hold [...]

Today’s Organizing MacGyver Style concerns pantyhose.  There are many ways to use pantyhose in organizing.
Photo provided by How Can I Recycle This
Here are my favorite four pantyhose uses for organizing:
1.  Cut the waist off and use it to tie up papers, keep hoses tied up and rolls of wire tidy.
2.  Cut the legs off and [...]

These Public Storage Commercials crack me up.  I can’t help but think why people don’t just purge through their items before they open a storage account.  Consolidate and let go of things that are not truly valuable to you, that way you have less things to worry about storing.  I understand if you are storing [...]

Photo provided by Charles
Oh how I miss MacGyver on the television.  I always loved how he used random items to get out of stressful situations.  Inspired by MacGyver, I will be blogging about using “out of the box” items to help you stay organized.

Today’s pick is an old Kleenex box.  I don’t know if you know [...]

Considering yesterday’s post, some of you may be asking how to dispose of garage items that are hazardous…well…

January 28th Organizing Tip: Earth911 is an excellent resource to locate local disposal sites and recycling centers for hazardous material.  The ReUseIt Network is another great resource that allows you to give your unwanted garage items to someone else [...]

hmmm..according to The Wall Street Journal, National Association of Home Builders statistics show that 70% of American home owners now enter their homes mainly through their garages, so they want those garages to look more like entrances than dumps. Yes sireee makes you think about what condition your garage is in and how it can influence your [...]