Get All Your Papers Organized In One Weekend {Review}

Are you overwhelmed with all the paper in your home?  Think you don't have time to deal with it? Or don't know where to start?

You are not alone!  Paper enters our house ALL. THE. TIME.  And without a good system in place to deal with it, it can take over our homes.

Office Organizing Tips From Professional Organizers

Once again, I'm so excited to be included in this month's Professional Organizers Blog Carnival!

What is the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival?  I'm glad you asked!  It's a monthly blog post that professional organizers contribute to.  Each month is a different theme and includes posts related to that topic from several professional organizers.  It's a great place to find advice, ideas, and tips for the theme of the month.

This month is all about Office Organizing.  Whether you have a home office or a small business office, these tips will help you get organized so you can be more productive!

So check out all the tips in this post and find the ones that will help you organize your office!

Day 26 - Offices (Part 2) {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!

Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either

• making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
• using items you already have in a different way.

If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!  

I already shared several cheap and easy DIY Office Organizers a few weeks ago.  But you can never have too many office organizing ideas right?!  So here are a few more ideas to help you get your office organized and keep it that way!

This post has been moved to my business website's blog: https://fromoverwhelmedtoorganized.com/day-26-offices-part-2-31-cheap-easy-diy-organizers/. 

Please check it out there. 

Happy organizing!

Day 23 - Repurposed Furniture {31 Cheap and Easy DIY Organizers}

Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!

Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either

• making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
• using items you already have in a different way.

If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!  

I shared ideas earlier in this series for repurposing dressers to help you organize.  But there are lots of other furniture pieces you can repurpose that will create organizational space.  Here are a few other ideas.

This post has been moved to my business website's blog: https://fromoverwhelmedtoorganized.com/day-23-repurposed-furniture-31-cheap-and-easy-diy-organizers/. 

Please check it out there. 

Happy organizing!

Day 16 - Office Organizers {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!

Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either

• making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
• using items you already have in a different way.

If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!  

Today I want to talk about office organizers.  There are all kinds of amazing office organizers you can buy to keep your desk, drawers, and paperwork organized!  There's a whole industry based on office organizers.  But, you don't have to spend a lot of money to organize your office (or whatever area of your home where you deal with paperwork, etc.).

These cheap and easy DIY organizers will help you whip your office into shape in no time.

This post has been moved to my business website's blog: https://fromoverwhelmedtoorganized.com/day-16-office-organizers-31-cheap-easy-diy-organizers/. 

Please check it out there. 

Happy organizing!

It's a top 10 list! Top 10 posts of 2013 :)

I'm still in Christmas mode as we've been celebrating with each of our families the last 3 days, and today is the first quiet day we'll have at home to enjoy some of our gifts (and put them away so I can get my living room and dining room back!).

But this time of year, leading up to the new year next week, always gets me thinking about the year that's ending.

2013 has been a great year on the blog!  I'm so excited when I look back on how this blog has grown this year.  That means more of you are finding and using the organizing tips I've shared, which makes me very happy. 

And I've loved making new online friends this year!  It still amazes me how close I feel to people I've met online.  Our shared need for organization is a bond that ties us closely together!

Whether you're a new follower who started during the year, or have been a loyal reader all year, you may have missed some posts or could use reminders to help you start 2014 in an organized way.  So here's a top 10 list of posts from 2013 for you.

Day 29: Desk Drawers {31 Days of Easy Decluttering}

Welcome back to 31 Days of Easy Decluttering!  If you've missed any of the previous posts, there are links to them here.

Today's Easy Decluttering Project

Today we're decluttering desk drawers.  

"Office" Organizing Challenge: The Final Reveal!

Happy Easter everyone!  And happy last day of March!

At the end of February, I told you I was going to organize my "office" spaces during the month of March as part of OrgJunkie's 31 Day Organizational Challenge.

I'm so happy that I took on this challenge because both of my office spaces where overwhelming me for ages and now they make me smile :)

Office Progress Week 4C: Desk Drawers {Part Two}

Have you ever purchased office supplies because you thought you needed them?  And then later you realized you already had a bunch but you just couldn't find them because your desk drawers were too cluttered?  Have you ever found something completely useless when you looked through your desk?

Me too (on both counts!).  More on those stories in this post :)

Today's post is part three of my progress organizing my "office" this week.  If you missed yesterday's post on organizing my dining room desk drawers, or the post earlier tonight on purging books and organizing shelves, you can read them here and here.  

Office Progress Week 4B: Desk Shelves

Do you have any shelves that are overcrowded and make the whole area feel cluttered and overwhelming?  Do you use shelves to store items other than books?

This week as part of my office organizing, I tackled the totally overwhelming shelves above my desk in the basement this week.  In this post I'll show you before and after pictures and give you some tips to organize your shelves.

Today's post is part two of my progress in my "office" this week.  If you missed yesterday's post on organizing my dining room desk drawers, you can read that here.

Ready for more before and after pictures?  Me too :)

Office Progress Week 4A: Drawers {Part One}

Can you find what you're looking for in your desk drawers?  Or are you sometimes searching through overstuffed drawers for something?  Do you feel overwhelmed at the thought of trying to organize your desk drawers? If so, then you've come to the right place! 

I've been working hard this week to finish organizing my "office" spaces.  Nothing like cramming it all into the last week of a challenge!  So much organizing, so little time to blog about it :)

Rather than one huge post, I'm going to break this week's progress into a few posts so you're not overwhelmed reading them and you can actually remember the tips I share!

Office Progress Week 3: Manuals Drawer

Have you ever had something break down and had difficulty finding the manual?  Or the warranty?  Or the receipt? I have!

So as part of this week's decluttering and organizing in my "office" spaces, I decided to create a drawer for all the manuals, warranties, and receipts for items in our home.

At one point I had a folder that I kept these documents in.  But over time we've accumulated a lot more manuals and they outgrew my folder.  They ended up being stored in several different places in our house, which isn't practical.

I needed a better solution.

Office Progress Week 2: Surfaces

Do you have cluttered surfaces in your home?  Do they become dumping zones?  Me too!  Today I'm sharing how I cleaned up some of my "office" surfaces.  I'll also give some tips to help you organize your office.

I'm pretty late with this update post (it's actually week 3!) but I wanted to show you what I've been doing lately to organize my "office".

Last week was March Break here and it was also my son's birthday on Saturday.  It was a great week, filled with family activities {followed by a few days of recuperating catching up!}.  Needless to say though, I didn't accomplish as much as I'd hoped with respect to my "office".  But I did make progress!

Office Progress Week 1: File Drawer

Do you ever have trouble finding a document that you need?  Do you have so many papers that you can't find what you're looking for?  Are you overwhelmed with paperwork?  Then read on for tips on getting your files organized!

I told you last week that I'm going to be organizing my "office" this month as part of OrgJunkie's 31 Day Organizational Challenge.  

I'll be giving you updates throughout the month as I work my way through both of my desks, several file cabinets, and the areas above and around my desks.

Tackling My "Office" This Month!

This month I'm going to be participating in OrgJunkie's 31 Day Organizational Challenge and I'm going to tackle my "office".  

Today, I'm showing you the "before" pictures of the various office spaces in my home and throughout the month I'll be sharing updates on what I'm doing to organize it.  

{Note:  These are true life pictures.  I didn't tidy the areas nearby before taking pictures, nor did I mess up the areas to look worse for the challenge.  The only thing I did was flip over a few papers so our personal information was not visible.  This is the real deal folks.  Sad but true.}

OK, on with the post.

31 Days of Organizing Tips: Day 28 (Multi-purpose rooms)

Welcome to Day Twenty Eight of the 31 Days of Organizing Tips series!  

Today's tips are about organizing rooms that have more than one purpose.  

31 Days of Organizing Tips: Day 27 (Office)

Welcome to Day Twenty Seven of the 31 Days of Organizing Tips series!  

Today's tips are to help you organize your office.