10 Tips to Create Space that You Never Knew You Had

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If you want to have this…. You’re going to have to find some of this…. It’s called space and it comes at a premium in most homes! While I totally prefer living in a smaller home, there is a continuous challenge to find extra storage space. The good news is that “living small” keeps me [...]

How to Clean Out a Cabinet

It’s just one of those recurring chores that must happen once in a while…..cleaning and organizing a cabinet. As someone who cooks a lot, it doesn’t take long for my spice and baking supply cabinets to look like a disaster.  I’ve stopped fighting it, frankly.  OCD and I parted ways a long time ago and [...]

How to Get Things Done 15 Minutes at a Time

Most of my married life, I’ve been pregnant or nursing a baby. It’s difficult to get much of anything done during the child-bearing years.   Basic life essentials like nutrition and sleep become paramount priorities, as well they should. Many dreams, aspirations and hobbies are put on the back burner for another season, and that’s [...]

The Pantry Challenge: Use Up What You Have

Since the holidays, I am realizing how much food I have in the freezers and pantry. What to do with all that surplus? Make a plan to eat it up! The surplus is a wonderful thing to have, that’s for sure.  I’ve discussed the benefits of having a well-stocked pantry so I won’t get into [...]

How to Organize Your Pantry

The Tribe’s disorganized pantry Making the best use of the space we have is an important part of being a homemaker. I am blessed to have a wonderful pantry in our new home, but I haven’t always had a pantry.  We have lived in homes that might be considered small for our family’s size, yet I [...]

10 Ways to Deal with Your Stuff

(Picture from www.leapsandbounds.com) Getting organized.  There are countless websites and blogs that are geared to this subject.  Actually, there are chains of stores that are dedicated to getting us all organized, offering a mega-variety of cute and colorful plastic boxes in every shape and size, shelves with fancy drawers to match any room and even [...]

The Gift of Order: Kid's Rooms

Restoring order to your teenager’s room

Ordering My World: Organizing My Cookbook

I am so pleased to be able to stop making excuses about my cookbook and announce that it’s finished! I’ve been griping about it for years and years. As I finally finish this ‘long-term project’, I have realized a few stumbling points for me in terms of recipe collection. I have too many cookbooks I [...]

Ordering My World: "Command Central"

‘Command Central’ is what I refer to as the system that keeps our family running. It consists of my daily planner, a few office supplies (scissors, white-out tape, pens and 3-ring hold punch) and my phones, both cell and land line. Over the years, I have used many, many types of planners. I’ve used professional [...]