Want to Get Organized?
August 6, 2010
Getting and staying organized is a huge challenge for anyone with a busy life. Between blogging, projects, and the daily ‘mom’ obligations, staying organized is definitely one of my biggest challenges too.
What about you? Do you struggle with staying organized? Do you want to declutter your home, but don’t know where to start? Whether your home needs a complete organizational overhaul, or you have just a room or two that is outside of your clutter comfort zone, here’s an opportunity to discover how to create an organized space you’ll love.
This weekend, my lovely sponsor Simplify 101 is offering two readers a spot in the online workshop Organizing 101 ~ the opportunity for a fresh start!
In Organizing 101, you’ll learn basic organizing concepts, plus you’ll uncover the reasons why your past efforts may not be working. The workshop is packed with motivation, inspiration, and most importantly, the tools you need to get organized once and for all and just in time for back to school. Here’s a sneak peek 2 minute video that gives you the skinny on what you can expect in this workshop.
Spread out over six weeks, you’ll have plenty of time to review the materials that provide answers to your pressing organizational issues. You’re free to review the weekly materials on your own time over the six weeks, online or in PDF format, or even in MP3 format.
You’ll have the support of a professional organizer to answer questions, plus a friendly online community, you can take action and organize your home.
The kind folks at Simplify 101 are offering two lucky readers a free spot in the Organizing 101 online workshop – a $75 dollar value, starting this upcoming week.
Eligibility to win one of two free spots in the Organizing 101 workshop:
1) Leave a comment simply describing your biggest organizational challenge !
2) For a second chance to win, either link to this giveaway on Facebook OR tweet this giveaway with a link on Twitter, and then leave a second comment telling me where you mentioned this giveaway (FB or Twitter).
Giveaway ends Monday August 9th at 8 p.m. PST ~ two winners chosen by Random.org.
If you’d like more tips on organizing your home or office top to bottom, sign up for Simplify 101’s organizing newsletter right here ! You can also follow the blog and get even more daily tips.
GOOD LUCK and HAPPY WEEKEND !
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It is almost hard to pick just one spot! After having my boys (2 and 11 months) I have just gotten behind on everything! Our closets are a disaster and we are drowning in paper…I dream about being organized again one day. I would LOVE the help :)
All of my kids toys for sure!
I think that I would have to say my office/craft space or my kids bedrooms. They are 16,13, and 9 and each of them have different areas that need help. I am not an organized person by nature so I have not been able to help them get there “stuff” organized. I have these wonderful dreams of one day being able to go into my craft room and say today we are making xyz and I know where everything is. HELP ME PLEASE :)
Junk Drawers are my weakness! I try to convince myself I am organized if everything is put away…but don’t look in the drawers!
My ENTIRE house!! I need help in every space of my house. We have small closets and my basement is not functioning as it should.
My biggest organizational issue is my kids’ clothes! Where to keep them, when to go thru them, etc, etc!
My biggest problem area with organization is with paper…the kids papers, bills, my craft papers, theres piles of papers everywhere! I even have piles of paper in the kids play room…ahhh! I would love to win this spot!
I need to organize my pantry. Badly. We’re a family who have eclectic tastes, so I’ve got to find a way to get in hand all those little packages, bottles, jars, and boxes of things like carob powder, rice flour, various vinegars, myriad types of crackers, etc. It’s driving me bonkers!
Our biggest problem is our office. In addition to the mess of the stuff that belongs in there, it is also a dumping ground for anything I can’t find a home for. I started trying to clean it up weeks ago, but I just don’t know where to start…HELP!
Oh pick me!!!! I don’t think I can pick just 1 challenge to organizing for me, but I instantly thought of 2 biggies for me. One – I don’t have a place for everything…I just don’t know the best place for everything so my “stuff” doesn’t have a “home.” Two – I keep too much STUFF… I like it…. I tend to be sentimental and nostalgic about it all… so it gets hard to declutter and get rid of it. And wait, I thought of a third… Three – I just have TOO MUCH STUFF.
We’re at a point in our year where some of life is just dying down, slowing down a bit and it feels good. This is a perfect time to look at our life, our home, the way things are run and change what doesn’t work.
I recently moved back home, and my biggest problem is that I am surrounded by years and years of my “stuff” and I just dont know what to do with it or where to begin clearing it out. It seems like everything I want to chuck has sentimental value. But I am drowning in my crap, I need to eliminate. I need some zen in my life.
My problem area is my kitchen. It’s where we cook, eat, drop off, store papers, everything. We have enough space…even a desk in the kitchen, but I just don’t know how to utilize it well.
closets!!!!!!!
I think our biggest organization issue is with mail/paper/receipts. We bring it in and just create piles everywhere! That and organizing our closets would help big time!
my toughest challenge is getting my entire house organized. My home office is a mess, my pantry needs to be organized, my closets are overflowing… I just have never figured out where to start :)
Hopefully I will now!
Office or kitchen….just pick one????
Can’t ’cause they are both a mess!
My BASEMENT….oh boy is it scary. Would LOVE some tips on how to get the bad boy organized! :)
I linked up on FB :)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513420448
My house is tiny with almost no closets. I had a decent system for organization but that failed miserably when my oldest daughter hit the stage where she liked to empty everything. Now that my second daughter is here I am desperate to find room, organize and make it work in our tiny house thats now bursting at the seams with a disorganized mess!
The hardest thing to keep organized is the “junk” drawer! Everything gets thrown in there and it is such a daunting task to clean it out!
My biggest problem is my closet! I have a lot of clothes and it gets cluttered and disorganized very quickly!
My problem area is the kitchen counter!! Mail, kids projects, toys, etc all seem to collect here and make the whole kitchen look messy!! I would love the help fixing this problem!! :)
My biggest challenge is my office! It also gets stuff dumped into it and my desk is always a mess! I hate it!!!
Wow… I would have to say my homeschool room which also doubles as my craft area for scrapbooking/stamping. It needs so desperate TLC!! :)
i need to organize my office. there is a *chance* i’ll be telecommuting to work in the fall (crossing my fingers) and there’s no way i could work in there the way it is now. i need to separate home stuff from work stuff.
thanks for the giveaway! :)
The hardest thing for me to organize is my daughters toys and books. By the time I finish organizing, she has taken it all apart again! I really need a better system!
My BIGGEST organizational challenge right now is the filing. I have a box that I just throw papers, manuals and receipts in because, one slow day, I’ll organize and file them. Well, there are no slow days in my house. HELP!
My biggest organizing challenge is LIFE in general! To be more specific, paperwork (important papers to file and keep) is a big headache for me, as well as just keeping everyday clutter at bay…I don’t know how people do it!
My garage is by far the most difficult organizing challenge I face!
My home! Every room! I need HELP!
I desperately need to organize my entire house! Pantry is a mess, the office and the bedroom closet are my primary concerns. Sad thing, I’ve been working on those 3 projects the whole summer!
I desperately need help organizing my paper clutter (bills, documents, notes, travel stuff, kids things, etc). And I need help finding a place for them since I don’t have a lot of storage space in our home.
I have 2 places that really need work. My kids rooms!! I really need to figure out how to get them organized, so they stay that way. My kids includes a ‘mad scientist’ so there are lots of little things laying around. The 2nd is my sewing area. I’m banished to a corner of our kitchen. I need to make better use of the tiny space.
Since we just moved into our new house, we’re in SERIOUS need of some organization! I’m completely overwhelmed and need all the help I can get!
We have not long bought our first home so there are numerous areas we need help in organising. Particularly in setting up a home office/study & organizing the kitchen/pantry, also our wardrobes. I could go on & on!
:)
I am in desperate need of help with organizing. I don’t think i can pick just one spot. Oh please pick me!
My entire house!
My mail… and paperwork is the most annoying and hard to keep up on.
Oh Lordy, how to pick just one! Probably the worst area is my kid’s playroom. It is a mismatched bunch of furniture thrown up there and the kids just leave a trail of destruction on a daily basis> I need some help!
OMG I would die to win a spot. I desperately need help with my scraproom. I have craft items spilling all over the dining room, and so many unfinished projects has taken residence in my garage now.
the more I tried to be more organized the more of a mess I create..
On my way to tweet now..
Crossing my fingers :)
Maggie
Definitely my craft room!!!:) It really needs help!
I tweeted this givaway : twitter.com/lullabella
Being a mother of FIVE kids, I am always looking for ways to stay organized! The kids rooms are a big problem! And of course the kitchen, where we spend a lot of time. We are outgrowing our current home and I know there’s a way to stay organized (and sane!) for the next year until we move!
New house, muh larger (and wonderful) kitchen. I have no idea what to do with all the new space!
Mail and paperwork are my biggest problems by far!
Sometimes I think my entire house is an organization challenge! But mostly we need help with all the mail and paper work in the house.
My whole house is so hard to organize! If I had to pick one thing though I would say all my makeup and beauty products! Every once and a while I reach to the back of my organizer and find a great color I completely forget I had! I need some serious help in that area!
My biggest struggle with organization is all the “maybe” stuff. The clothes, mail, receipts and other junk that I’m not sure if I’m going to need or not.
I feel like all the little sentimental knick knacks I collect are my biggest challenge because I never know what to do with them and then they’re just everywhere.
you know that bathroom drawer that has everything and more stuff it should not?? yeah, it is ugly. plus, i am soon moving and would love to have a step up to stay ahead!