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Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: How to Get Rid of Your Paper Piles for Good

September 5 by Kristin

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: A simple strategy for totally getting rid of your paper piles!

Five people live in this house.  That's five times the amount of paper a single person sees in one day. That means I have to organize my way through bills, business items, personal correspondence and all the paper it takes to make one's way through middle school and high school. It can be a lot to handle. I consider myself a fairly organized person, but before I created a system for my house there were tears over lost homework, stress over client invoices and the embarrassment of a late RSVP.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kristin, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: How to get organized, how to organize paperwork, organization hack, organization tips for moms, paper organization, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

How To Organize Reusable Bags

May 23 by Annie

great tips for neatly storing all my re-usable bags

For those of us environmentally minded folks on the west coast of the United States, reusable bags are like the law. But actually, they are the law. With the ban on plastic bags in full effect in some cities, stores now operate as BYOB—that’s: bring your own bag—establishments. It’s not just here, either. People the world over are beginning to wake up to the fact that using reusable bags is a small way they can be kinder to the planet. The only hitch in all of this is that reusable bags are a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: folding reusable bags, how to organize your life, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life, storing reusable bags

Keep Kids’ Art Organized All Year with DIY Artist’s Portfolios

October 2 by Julee

This is such a cool way to keep track of all my kiddo's oversized art from the year! Love that you can use dry-erase and chalk on it too!

Are you struggling with what to do with all that art and school work coming through the door when the kids come home from school? Never fear - today Julee's with us sharing a simple DIY project we think you're going to love. We create - and save - quite a bit of art at our house. With school just starting, the volume of paintings, drawings, and other crafts is only going to increase. My current storage solution for keeping my children's creations is to pile them on my desk until it becomes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Julee, Organizing Tagged With: art, art organization, diy, How to get organized, organizing kids art, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

How to Get Your Oven Sparkling Clean {Project Green Clean Your Entire House}

June 6 by Kaley

How to Green Clean Your Oven - so easy and my oven is sparkling like new!

Our resident lover of all things green and non-toxic, Kaley, is here today with another installment of our new series: Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House. Like Kaley, cleaning my oven is one of those things I avoid at all costs, but her method actually seems pretty easy and you can't argue with those results! Here's here step-by-step instructions... After a long winter of casseroles, roasted veggies, roasts, and other baked meals, our oven was looking pretty neglected. I like to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House Tagged With: all natural cleaning solution, DIY cleaning solution, eco friendly oven cleaning, going green, green cleaning, green cleaning your oven, green kitchen cleaners, how to clean the kitchen, how to clean your over, How to get organized, POYEL, Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life, spring cleaning

DIY Jewelry Organization Board

April 23 by Julee

Simple but chic DIY jewelry organizer - I want to fill my closet walls with these!

I'm gonna go on record right now and say this is one of my very favorite Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life projects ever! So cool, so easy, and so perfect for storing your #5RingsToStopYelling. Here's Julee with the full how-to... Now that my daughter is six-going-on-sixteen, the number of necklaces, bracelets, rings, hair clips and other accessories in our home seems to be multiplying by the hour. Our school day morning routine is hectic enough without the added task of tracking down a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Julee, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: DIY jewelry organizer, How to get organized, jewelry, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

Free Printable: The Single Page Summer Planner because Camps are Already Filling Up!

February 15 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

I'm gonna keep it super short today guys and simply present you with an organizational tool I love to help you stay on top of your mom game. I'm really enjoying coming up with free tools to help you win the war we're all waging on busy - I hope you guys are too. Today, I've got something I rely heavily on this time of year. Drum roll, please...   Get the FREE Single Page Summer Planner Printable Now!   There are SO many camps, vacations, swim lessons, etc. during the summer and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Daily Rhythms, Printables Tagged With: free printable, How to get organized, one page summer planner, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life, single page summer planner, summer planner, summer planning printable, summer printable

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

Stop Cleaning While Your Kids Sleep – ASAP!!

March 27 by Kaley

How to make a DIY Kids' cleaning kit to help teach kids responsibility and create a kids chores routine in your home.

Today Kaley is sharing with us a very clever (and cute) way to get the kids involved in the cleaning. The take home message here is clearly "start getting them involved early!" and I think it would be a great thing to share with your mom friends. How cool would this be as a gift?  Kaley's even sourced a few pretty picks to help you get started... How many of you do the cleaning while your kids are asleep?  If you do, stop! Kids should not only see what it takes to keep a home, they should … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Learning & Engaging, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: cleaning kit for kids, cleaning with kids, how to organize your life, kids chores, kids cleaning kit, organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: Cheerful DIY Storage Jars

February 23 by Kristin

Easy Kid Craft: DIY Storage Jars - a fun project for getting kids excited about helping keep the house organized

If you're a regular here, you know we're all about getting kids involved in contributing around the house early. Sometimes that means setting up regular family and money jobs, and sometimes it just means taking a little time for a bright and cheerful DIY organization project. Here's Kristen with the details... Things look better when they are organized. And I think we function better when things look better. Case in point:  The Junk Drawer. We all have one and if you've ever … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art + Kid Crafts, Kristin, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: DIY organization, diy projects, DIY storage jars, easy kid craft, home office organization, How to get organized, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

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