28 February 2012 – 8:27 am
As I’ve been getting older and my late night studying sessions fade into distant memories, I’ve found it more difficult than ever to remember things. I can remember people’s birthdays without effort and without fail (that’s another post entirely), but numbers, addresses, and lists just can’t stick. Luckily, I realized that using mnemonic devices actually [...]
At the beginning of each year I find myself in an anxiety-filled frenzy of organization. Clay and I emptied and scrubbed down our refrigerator, making our food the first thing to keep organized this year. I wanted to maintain that organization with me during lunch at work, so I searched for some bento box lunch [...]
I paint at my dining room table. When I’m working on a painting, we eat our meals at the coffee table. I’ve been staring at this photo from Design Sponge for quite a while. I’d love to have a setup like this and I’m going to try and make it happen. [source]
Last night I was able to complete one more item on my 26 before 26 list. I’d been working on it slowly over the last few months and can finally cross off #17: Organize the garage. While our little house has plenty of closets, there wasn’t much outdoor storage for larger items and those not [...]
With only eight days until my birthday, I’m making a mad dash to complete items on my 26 before 26 list. I’ve been working on this one for a while and finally completed it: #20: Digitally organize and archive all photos. I took this opportunity to not only organize my photos, but all my documents [...]
30 January 2011 – 10:33 pm
Even if you aren’t an organizing junkie, this product is bound to make you swoon. Cable clutter is a constant struggle for me, especially since Clay has three PC’s and a television on his desk. Currently we have an embarrassing jumble of cables gathered by two IKEA Signum cable organizers. The Plug Hub is a [...]
19 October 2010 – 9:13 am
photo by heipei on flickr Although digital books and eReaders are becoming more popular, I still know several people who prefer to read and keep real books. While most of us don’t have a full library, we do have a few cases worth of books to store. Organizing these books can be both daunting and [...]
12 September 2010 – 9:27 am
Every Sunday I look through Post Secret and occasionally I’ll see a secret I can relate to. This Sunday, however, I saw a secret that I could have written and sent in myself. Here is that secret plus a tweet I posted earlier this year in March. It’s always fun to see how similar we [...]
3 September 2010 – 8:17 am
What a brilliant idea. As an avid organizer, I never imagined that simply looking at neatly organized items could actually relax me. Things Organized Neatly features photos of objects placed in evenly spaced and pleasingly aligned arrangements. It demonstrates that grouping similar objects together is an easy and quick way to organize. It also proves [...]
With the purchase of a record player, I now had to find a storage solution for the records. I searched online for a few days, trying to find the right compromise between form and function. Because I wanted to keep the records close to the player in the living room, I thought a furniture-style option [...]
