For the organize crazy's!

This week's tip is more of an observation. I have seen so may articles about being organized that I wonder why I even write about being organized... I like to be organized and I love to get a mess organized I just can't help my self. I have a friend that I see every now and then and she gives me ideas which I'll share in the next few blogs. For now I am working on ways to receive questions from you the reader. The few readers that have been following my attempt at typing about being organized. Trust me I am much better at organizing things,so drop me a line about what you need help organizing in the comment part of my blog. I will be looking in to getting set up an easy way for you the reader to ask me "How to " questions. Till next week; hope your still working on getting organized one step at a time.

SPRING TIME FLOWERS

Flowers!!!!! I love to see them in bloom. As I drive by some yards they look so nice. Here is an idea to keep your flower beds simple and YES organized. Know the size of your area. Make sure the dirt is ready for planting(mix in some good soil and may be some miracle grow), OK now picking the right flowers I like the kind that you only plant once and they keep coming back every year.  Pick taller ones for the back and the medium ones in the middle and short or ground cover for the front. Mix in your favorite colors. Pick plants that from the area you live and ones that bloom at different times,they tend to grow better. I also like the drought talerant variety you can for get to water an they still live. Be creative by setting the plants out to see if you like the arrangement . when you get the plants the way you want them start planting. Cover the bed in mulch and you should have a beautiful flower garden all summer.

Cards !!!!!

The month of May is a busy card month for me. I found my self leaving the store with 20 cards and I did not cover all the occasions I could have.
So what do you do with all those cards till you have to give them or mail them to the right person. Organize them of course! I have one of those card boxes with all the inserts for births, birthdays,holidays,etc...
 I guess it is time to figure the thing out. Take out all the inserts and fill in the information on each insert divider than put the cards in the fold that go under that topic or date. Repeat this act till you have all the Information filled out and all the cards filed where they go.

Multi task !!!!

Multitask much? We all do it from time to time. If you have to work an have a family you do it every day to keep that happy home, happy! 

Here is an idea that when I use it I get a lot more done.

 example to do list: wash, sweep, write blog, cook dinner. OK sounds easy, but to be honest there are days that only one thing on that short list gets done. Add mail, email, bills to pay, etc.. and well you have the idea. I have found if I start the the timed things on my list then go do some thing else you and be doing two things at once. You can use this idea with any kind of list that has  timing in them like wash, cooking, yes even waiting for some thing to turn on. Some times you will just do things in order that is for another blog.

So lets give it a try, start the wash than go turn on the computer (my needs time to warm up before it likes to work) than lets see, look at some mail. I at this point will try to finish a task  before jumping to another one. Timer on the wash is done cool get up move to the wash area change the loads, check out last week's blog for good idea on that. OK mail not done but yep need to start dryer first, yes I have put clothes in dryer gone on to the next task and come back to have two wet loads yuck!! Back to the mail and the computer is ready an waiting log on the email or face book, etc.depending on what I want to do.... oh wash needs changed .. good a break from sitting . Switch loads paper mail done board with email or face book OK look at list of to do's what can we do next .. 

You get the idea as long as you have a list to work from you can keep going from one thing to the next with an easy flow and it keep you from sitting to long at one time as well as gets more than one thing done or in process of getting done . Oh there is my  the chime on my washer. That's my cue to move on. Happy multitasking .

Organize laundry time

Wet clothes done but the dryer still running?  Try this out! In an older blog I talked about sorting the laundry so we will get right to the loading up the washer and dryer.
 OK wash is done, put that load in the dryer and start it. Yep don't wait till the washer is reloaded. Now pick a load similar in size and color next put it in the washer.You should find that they will be done about the same time. Today with all the different washer types you can see how long each load will take it helps organizing the loads so much easier. Picking similar size loads help keep the laundry flowing because if you can use the auto time on your dryer it will help to keep the clothes drying only for the time needed. I have also found that my clothes are not shrinking as much because they are not in the dryer to long. As you get practiced at keeping your loads the same size you will see that it will help to move the laundry along too. WELL as long as you keep changing the loads! 

Brush holder 2

Another idea for the old tooth brush holder is to use it to hold your paint brushes. Not the kind for painting the walls but the kind for painting art work.
Since most tooth brush holders have more than one opening you can sort your paint brushes by size. Just make sure you use one that is not to light or the weight of the brushes with tip it over.

Handy hair brush holder

Here is a cool tip I found. In clean out my bath room cabinet the other day I found my old toothbrush holder. I really like it and could not part with it even though it did not work out for tooth brushes.
It is made of stone,marble,something heavy ???? That is why I liked it so it would not tip over with tooth brushes in it. An it has wide openings hoping that the tooth paste would fit in one spot too. Any way for may resons not important here I put it away.  I was taking every thing out of the cabinet a hair brush ended up in one of the openings... It fit ! cool A new organization idea was born, ok new to me I am sure some where out there someone else may have used this idea but it is new to me. I found all my hair brushes and put them in it. they all fit an I even had room to but in a few small hand mirrors too. I put that down in my basket for all my hair clips, rubberbands,etc. now when I need a brush I can find it with out digging for it.