Ep 17: Mess and Mundane: Organizing Ordeals

Summary:

Organizing life is the never-ending, often overwhelming task of trying to make life doable! Listen in as Laura and Elle talk about their own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to organization and share their experiences with making life work!

Mentioned This Episode:

-Look into the Meyers Briggs test! personalityhacker.com is an amazing resource!

-Elle can’t live without her Plum Paper calendar! https://www.plumpaper.com/shop/category/personalized-planners

-Try using the daily five for kids! Trace their hand and write five things they accomplish each morning before getting their vitamins!

-Laura swears by the Marie Kondo method for folding clothes! Her book is a must: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

-Emily Ley’s book, A Simplified Life, provides extremely practical tips and tricks for organizing your life. She focuses on simplifying rather than just organizing and making more space in your life for what matters.

-Come up with simple solutions for cluttered spaces: make bins or baskets for different items. The bins can be less tidy, but they’ll clean up quickly!

Let’s Be Honest:

-The weather is getting colder and it’s time to cozy up the house with an amazing Hearth&Hand fall candle line! Can’t get much better than Joanna Gaines bringing life and delicious scents to your home! (Sold at Target!)

Listener Tips:

-ShopShop is an amazing app that lets you make multiple lists at multiple stores but house them all in one place!

-Try the bullet journal. Keep a running list of things to do daily, both big tasks and small. Use it to take notes and jot down memorable things about your day.

-Keep your cleaning products where you actually need them! It makes you more willing to clean when tools are on hand!

-Set up reminders on your phone! Do it instantaneously so you won’t forget later!

-Come up with certain days for certain events! This family has Friday fun days! It gives everyone something to look forward to.

-Go through a certain room of your house or a certain category on a monthly basis. See what you actually use and love, and if you’re done with it let it go! You can sell items online, donate to good will, or give them to a friend!