Entry #245, August 15, 2010
Exactly one year ago today, I started the Stagetecture blog as a place for me to talk about my passions: home staging, organizing, decor, family solutions, and everything that surrounds your home. 245 posts later, a brand new look, and new adventures under my belt, I’m happy to say this has been a life changing venture. The people I’ve met, the world that I’ve now grown closer to, I appreciate all of my old and new readers. You all inspire me every day!
Happy Birthday Stagetecture Blog!
-Ronique
Happy 1 Year Birthday Stagetecture Blog!
With school starting this month, I found it only fitting to re-run my first blog post, about using organization to save you time… still my motto. I will periodically run Stagetecture Archives to show where the blog evolutioned from one year prior. Enjoy!
Organization Can Save You Time
(Entry #1, August 15, 2009)
It’s 7:00am, and you need to be out of the house in 30 minutes to make it to work on time. Your kids are asking where their clean clothes are for school. Your spouse is asking where are the car keys, it’s your turn to take the minivan. You’re in the kitchen trying to make a hot breakfast, but the pantry has Tylenol, crayons, and pepper in the same place, and they all just fell into the oatmeal.
Solution: Organization!
Every aspect of your life could use some form of it. Whether it’s at home, office, gym, or your social calendar!
Kids:
Help them, help themselves. After laundry comes out of the dryer, have children put clothes away as soon as possible. For larger families, have separate areas for dirty and clean clothes. (Separate laundry baskets, labeled bins, or clean each child’s clothes separately to avoid confusion.)
Morning Rituals
If you are like most of us, that have hectic mornings, make rituals for you and your family. Can’t find the keys? Assign an area that you and your spouse go to when you come home, and when you leave out. The same with purses, wallets, gym bags, kid’s backpacks. Assign areas that before the family retires at night, they know in the morning, it will be the place as the “go-to” spot, before heading out the door.
Kitchen organization
The Kitchen is the most used room of any house, repeatedly through the day, and the one place that organization gets overlooked. Keep medicine for the family in a cabinet away from extreme temperature changes (not the bathroom!) Choose a cabinet
Organizing your cabinets can get you out of the house on time!
that young children can’t reach, but convenient for adults. Place crayons, pens, markers and other art supplies in a utility room, upper shelf of a cabinet or pantry. This way, the walls won’t accidentally have writing on them, without you knowing Timmy was in the markers!
Add a spice organizer, simple or elaborate, to your kitchen. If you can find the pepper in 3 seconds instead of 3 minutes, think of the time you’ll save in the entire morning.
For more home organization ideas on Stagetecture, click here.
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