Organizing Family Pictures Creatively
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Family photos are arguably the most valuable things in your home since they are hard to replace. Find out how to organize your family photos to enjoy them better.
Posts Tagged ‘Organize’
Taking down the tree
Saturday, February 12th, 2011This time comes around yearly when it’s finally time to take down the Christmas decorations and make your home normal once again . I always feel a small bit depressed when we start this procedure that is much less exciting than setting it up. However, this is actually a key time in organizing and setting your house up for the coming year. If you do not put things away in an organized fashion, chances are that they will only get more chaotic and disorganized every single year . Here are a couple of ideas to keep your transformation from holiday wonderland to some form of normality, organized. This transformation also becomes crucial if you are planning on putting your house on the market or it already is on the market. Potential buyers don’t want to see that you do not have anywhere to put your Christmas stuff either. Show them how organized it can be and it is guaranteed to impress! First, make sure you have a weather proof bin to keep things in. I use a large rubbermade box to make sure that it will not desinigrate or fall apart while in storage. Cardboard boxes can be infiltrated by various insects and rodents, dampness, or really anything. So, choose something that will hold up well in various conditions. Next, try to label your containers so that when you are looking for such and such item you won’t have to tear through all the boxes to find it, essentially making your problem worse . If you really want to put some time into it, make a detailed list of each item in the box, laminate it and put it on top of the container. It also helps if you keep things of the same category together. Last, take the time to organize your boxes/containers in order of importance or projected future need. If you know you are going to need something that you stack all your winter boxes in front of, it’s going to be much harder and more inconvenient to find later. Take a little extra time when you do this and you’ll be glad you did later. These things really don’t take a ton of extra time when you are putting things away. It’s just a matter of being smart about it! Be smart about your homes and take a look at ours on College Station Homes or Austin Homes .
-Jenn, the Cortiers blogger
Families With Children Need Routine to Thrive
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010Routines are how schools, businesses, and many corporations organize themselves to get things done. The same can also be said for a family. Using a routine, a family can expect to more easily get things done, spend time together, and have fun. Routines also help members of the family to know who will be doing what and at what time.
Organize Your Family Schedule
Monday, September 6th, 2010To avoid the mismanagement in your house and among the family members, you must develop a home schedule. More important that creating one, it is important to organize it well.
Tips to Keep and Display All Your Children’s Files
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Many parents often feel confused to organize their children’s files, especially if their children like to collect things and get some projects from their teacher everyday. Of course, children are sometimes careless, so they often let anything unorganized. That is why the organization task often becomes parents’ responsibility.
Having kids gives a great feeling but it sometimes causes you a headache when looking at things spread to all over the parts of the rooms. Besides having toys, they also have other things like papers, photos, school projects, and more. Since you cannot predict when guests will come to your home, it is just not nice letting the guests see your messy home.
To organize large projects, you will need an area where you can permanently display them. Some projects are so big, such as a relief map of an area or a scale model of Vesuvius, making you find no space large enough to store them. In a response to this, you can consider making the photograph of them then scrapbooking a page in an album. Then, add some details about the project, pictures, and also the grade received.
To trick on limited space, using a filing cabinet will be a good idea. It is perfect to set up a filing cabinet for older children as they usually have more responsibility. Add some categories to divide the files, such as ones dedicated to the subjects of the school projects. Then, you can keep a section for notes or materials your kids are going to use for final exams.
For younger children, making your own creation of a Weekly Wall of Fame will be a good idea to keep their artwork and papers. To make it, you can use a bulletin board and put it in areas like room or study areas. In weekend, you can tack up some of the work that they bring home from school. In this case, you can sort the works to what needs to be filed. However, you should ensure that the photographs are displayed safely by laminating them before tacking them up on the bulletin board. Then, make sure that you have properly stored the photographs that are not going to be displayed.
Your children may often receive invitations or birthday cards and it is just so important to keep the cards until the happening day. To store the cards, you can keep them in storage you have prepared before and remember to keep only the important cards. The important cards here could be the ones that that really mean something special to you or your kids. Finally, you can give them something as a reward of their file organization. It makes you kids learn to organize their own files without your help as they will have more responsibility from doing a small thing.