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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My wife and I are such sticklers for organization and I am glad that you have pointed this out in your post. Although I do flaunt my high school and college football trophies, I keep it minimal to avoid overdoing it and getting it out of hand (just like the time I almost filled our entire house with fishing lures). Keep on writing the good stuff!
I’ve been working all year long on organzing various clutter areas in my home; however, my home office still needs a lot of work. I hace paper and othera miscellaneious items that need to find a permanent home and need some help!
My biggest organizational challenge is clutter. The kitchen countertops, well, any flat surface in my house has some sort of clutter on it. I would love to find a way to manage it all, so my home looks a little more visitor friendly on a daily basis.
Hi CG! You really do host the absolute best giveaways on the web! Thanks for entering me to this one, as well!
Paper is EASILY my biggest organization challenge. It stacks up SO quickly between myself and my husband both working and being in school full time – in addition to the multitudinous amount of paper needed to maintain a home!
Our mail area and our home office are two places that need major organizational overhauls!
My kitchen needs major organization. The table is a catch all for everything coming in the house.
I moved into my very own house a few months ago, and my office is still piled with boxes. I just don’t know where to start! I walk in there, get overwhelmed, and walk out. Sigh.
My closets need MAJOR organizing…I could use this for sure!
My home office needs some serious organizational help! I just drop my mail in there each evening and it ends up getting lost – I need a better way to organize my mail and home business documents.
Wow, do I ever need this class! I’m starting wedding planning (yay!), I’m back in school and working full time. I have very little time and am the clutter queen! I know my fiance would appreciate me taking this class as well!! ;)
Thank you, as always, for the opportunity!
~Kathryn
My biggest challenge is the kids stuff… it gets overwhelming!
My whole condo is in need of an organization overhaul. When I moved in about a year and a half ago, I just kind of shoved stuff in closets in the appropriate room. Now I’m realizing I really need to take everything out and start over – in pretty much every room (including the kitchen). It’s very overwhelming, but I know when I finish it will be a much easier place to live.
I’m moving into my very first house this weekend, and it would be a challenge to think of any part of it that is NOT an organizational challenge. I guess I’d have to go with the home office, but the kitchen is a close second.
I tweeted about the giveaway =) http://twitter.com/owlandphoenix
all that paper gets to me!!
Paper for sure, but it’s all my kids little things that I like to keep in the kitchen…paint, cards…you know things we do together and that need “watching”. Thanks!
The hardest part of organization for me, is the follow through of projects! I always have great intentions when getting started…it just takes so much to finish. This course would be a much needed push in a much more organized direction!
My whole house is a challenge! But particularly the office :-0
I need help with organizing the paper in our house! Sometimes it’s overwhelming and ends up staying in piles! I also don’t want to have to spend tons of money on stuff used to organize the papers…i know that if I went to the container store, I could spend hundreds of dollars to get it all organized, but I’d rather spend that money somewhere else in my house- I need cheap solutions!
My kitchen draws have always been a catch all for everything from pencils to paperclips to tea votives they wind up messy again within a couple of days. I wish I could just have some way of getting them to stay that way. Wait, just had a thought, maybe it’s not the draws that need organizing…..maybe it’s the kids and hubby! Can I get them organized? Just saying….;-)
my biggest challenge would be organizing and then accessing a lot of things in a small space. With two kids in a two bedroom apartment space is a major issue. I tend to stuff things into the closet and then i can’t find things when I need them. I would love to learn some great new tips. Thanks for the offer!
My biggest challenge is my kitchen. I have a lot of storage but I know I am not using it right!
My biggest organizational challenge is my scrapbook space. My husband and I bought shelves and a table for the space months ago. I am still struggling with how to best organize it. Thanks for the giveaway!
I need lots of help in my home. I would say my kitchen and master bath are the two most disorganized rooms in my house. I need to know what to keep around and what I should not have. I would love to learn some tips on organizing my home and ultimately my life!
I would love to win! I struggle with all the paperwork that my children bring home from school, which adds to my piles of household paperwork. My kitchen becomes a breeding ground for piles of paper! Considering school is about to start, the timing would be perfect!
My biggest organizational challenge is, in all honesty, my entire apartment. Since my boyfriend and I moved in together, I have trouble wrangling all of our stuff and finding a place for everything so that everything can be in its place. Papers, our guest room closet, and making the most of our tiny kitchen are also high on the list! Thanks for this giveaway – so great!
Our computer room drives me insane – we just can’t seem to get it organized in a way tha tboth of us like it. *lol*
I also tweeted about the contest! Woohoo, hoping I win. I really need to get organized. (I’m @GreenEggsHamlet) Thanks again to you and Simplify 101.
I would say my biggest organizational challenge is either my closet or my “office”…thanks for a great giveaway!
My greatest organizational challenge is figuring out what stuff I need within reach and what can go away. I also have a problem with “out of sight, out of mind” so I tend to leave things around as a reminder…which leads to CLUTTER. I need to get organized before my mat leave end and I go back to work at the end of Sept. It sometimes feels insurmountable!
My daughter and granddaughter have recently moved in with us while my SIL deploys to Afghanistan for 8 months. My daugher is in her old room along with her daughter in her little toddler bed. I made room in the main bathroom for their stuff and room for my granddaughter’s toys, but I am having trouble “getting it all together”.
On top of that after 34 years working, I am taking a year off (hopefully more) and would love to spend the year organizing my photos, recipes, fabric for quilts and my entire life!
PS We stop at the Strawberry Farm near Hopland!!
I seriously need this! I was just thinking about looking for some sort of online organizational program to give me the push I need (and accountability) to get a few projects tackled around here.
I NEED MORE organization! I love to organize, but have been so cluttered lately I don’t know where to start. HELP!
This is so cool! My biggest challenges are the walk in closet and the garage.
Linked to the giveaway on FB.
Papers are the big problem at our house. It would be bad enough just to have the endless junkmail and bills, but the fiance and I also each have 3 years worth of grad school notes, theses, etc! It’s out of control! With wedding planning things have gotten exponentially worse over the past year! Now we’re starting to receive all the wedding gifts and there is nowhere to put them! Yikes!
Glad you’re hosting this give away again! Paper (piles and piles of it – mail, receipts, coupons, etc) is by far my biggest challenge. Other than that, I totally struggle with the “place for everything, and everything in its place” strategy. I need more “places” to tuck things away and get organized.
I so need to get organized I don’t even know where to start -this would be a BIG motivator -Thank you for the great give-away
Kathy T
oh how I need this. . .my goal is to get the house decluttered. . .once the kids are back in school. . so that is my goal Sept-Dec. . .what motivation and inspiration this class would be. My biggest challenge is my craft room. . a room that is suppose to bring life and creativity brings me down. . I hate being in there because of the mess and clutter. . .
thanks for the chance to win-
Su
My scrapbook room is by FAR my most difficult area to organize and stay that way. Crossing my fingers that I win. Unfortunately I am a HUGE pack rat so I could really use this. Thanks, Lori
Wow,I cannot express how much I need this!
Everything is my toughest challenge. I guess I just have a hard time getting rid of stuff and then figuring out where to put what I keep
I am a single Mom with three kids. I work full time and have a hard time with incidental stuff that doesn’t really have a home. I have crap stacks of papers and all kinds of gems that gets moved and around but never really sorted or addressed. I end up losing stuff, our house looks messy and the accumulation factor is killing me! My time is at a premium and I’d love to be organized. I get easily overwhelmed and don’t make the time as I am unsure where to start. Jumping through hoops any given day is challenging. Trying to find any random thing in our home is really challenging! HELP!
I posted a status for this give away on FB! Thanks for an opportunity to win and learn some great techniques!
My husband is military and we move every three years so I would like to be able to find things with out tearing up my entire house. we have been here in Minot for almost 2 years and I still have boxes I have not unpack :( Please help! I posted a statues on my facebook and wrote to you on your but I just re-read the entry instructions.
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