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The 2020 POYEL Kit is Here! (Plus, a Free Bonus!)

November 8 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Ready to take a deep breath and vow to make a fresh start? To help you out, we've got some big, exciting news to share today!When we launched our handbook to leading a more simplified life, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: The Quick Start Guide. It was a huge success and we've since sold well over 10,000 copies.But I also heard from you guys that you would like some handy-dandy printables to go along with your newly-formed action plans. So I worked really hard to make that wish a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cleaning schedule, finally getting organized, getting organized, meal planning, organization printable, organization printables, paperplanner, personal planner, planner, POYEL, POYEL printable, printable planner, yearly planner

Pick Your Sale – 30% or 40% off Our Best-Selling Organization Printables for The WHOLE Family!

December 31 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

It's a new year and time for a new routine. Time for a little less chaos and just a little more calm at home.If simplifying your life by organizing yourself and your family is on the top of your wish list, we've got great news, the BRAND NEW 2019 POYEL Printables and our Kids' Responsibility and Money Management Kit are on sale! For 7 days only, save 30% on each or buy both and save 40%! I want this to be the year that we all finally slow down and find some extra time to connect with our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: allowance printables, chore printables, cleaning printable, Cleaning schedule, getting organized, kid chores, meal planning, meal planning printable, planner printable, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life printables

I’m Doing Something I’ve Never Done Before…

April 26 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

How to set up a Mom resource library you can really use!

Big news today guys! It's that one time of year when my favorite parenting resource, The Ultimate Homemaking Bundle, miraculously appears again for 6 days only - until Midnight, May 1st!Always valued at thousands of dollars and priced at 97% off (this year the value is over $2000), the library of resources changes every year but they are always incredibly helpful.Despite the unheard of value of the bundle each year, I inevitably hear from some of you that you're just not sure what you'd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fresh Finds: The Everyday Tagged With: getting organized, How to get organized, parenting, parenting styles, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

Brand New Organizational Printables for 2017! (Plus Pick Your Sale 30% – 40% Off)

December 26 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

POYEL 2017 Planner Printables & Kids' Responsibility and Money Management Packets on big sale!

It's a new year and time for a new routine. Time for a little less chaos and just a little more calm at home.If simplifying your life by organizing yourself and your kids is on the top of your wish list we've got great news... the BRAND NEW 2017 POYEL Printables and our Kids' Responsibility and Money Management Kit are on sale! For 10 days only, save 30% on each - or buy both and save 40%! December 26th, 2016 to January 4th, 2017  The 2017 Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 2016 planner printables, allowance printables, chore printables, cleaning printable, Cleaning schedule, getting organized, kid chores, meal planning, meal planning printable, planner printable, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life printables

Top 10 Cleaning Tricks for Families with New Babies

April 9 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Such a cute idea for a new baby gift full of things parents actually use!

Here's something fun - MPMK is moonlighting over on The Home Depot's site, The Apron Blog.  They recently asked us to guest post on some of our favorite tricks for keeping things fresh and clean with a new baby at home - a topic that's right up my alley these days!This DIY kids' cleaning station makes it fun for older siblings to help out and I'm totally in love with both the form and function of this clever space.In fact, all 10 of the ideas our home-life and playtime contributor, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: cleaning kit for kids, cleaning system, cleaning tips for new babies, getting onesies clean, getting organized, home organization, how to organize your life, kids cleaning station, new baby cleaning kit, organization, sponsored

My Simple Plan for Saving Our Memories This Year

January 20 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

We're talking memories today as part of our month long mission to find ways to eat better, parent better, organize better and just generally live better this year.  Before S arrived, I was actually pretty good about recording memories for our little family.  At the end of each month I would use the photos we'd taken to create 2 - 4 new pages in an iphoto book, along with a few paragraphs with family anecdotes, accomplishments, etc.  The idea being that at the end of the year I would have a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organizing, Photography & Memory Keeping, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: decluttering, favorite, getting organized, home organization, organization, organize, organizer, organizing, photo organization, Planner printables, printables, printing instagram photos, printing phone photos

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: Entryway Organization

January 5 by Annie

 (photo by ...love Megan, text added by MPMK)  We're continuing our month-long pursuit of a better 2014 with another Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life post and more design tips from our in-house professional organizer, Annie.   Last week she shared her Principles of an Organized Playroom and today she's divulging her three must-haves for entryway organization. (Don't forget to check out the end of this post for links to all of this month's helpful how-tos.) The importance of a well-organized … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Annie, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: boot storage, entry, entryway organization, getting organized, hooks, mudroom, shoe storage, winter wear

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Quick Tip: Baskets!

May 14 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Who's ready for a new Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life post?  "A what now?" you may be asking.  (I know, I know - it's been quite a long time since the last one.) Ironically, the reason I haven't done much posting on POYEL lately is because I've been spending all my extra time getting our house ready to list.  While that has involved quite a bit of organizing and cleaning, I just haven't had the time to document it. However, last week I did have the chance to snap this quick after photo of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: closet organization, getting organized, how to organize my life, organizing, organizing with baskets

30 Tips to Make Life Easier & Better

April 30 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with Pinterest.  Mostly it's all fuzzy warm feelings and gratitude for the mountains of delectable eye-candy.  But I do have a couple bones to pick too. First, it can be a HUGE time suck.  Invariably so at times when I really just need to get stuff done! Second, I've realized that all the pinning over there has led to fewer round ups over here. So today I'm attempting to remedy both of those problems with the inaugural (and possibly last ever) MPMK … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Style & Simplify Tagged With: getting organized, how to organize your life, organizing

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