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Welcome to the Home Storage Solutions Blog update page, which provides you with the latest updates and articles from this site, so you can always know "what's new" from me, Taylor.

This is where you can find the latest ideas, tips and the best products available to get your home organized and to help you find a place for everything in your home that matters.

How To Be A Clutter Buster 5 Guidelines To Identify Clutter In Your Home

How To Be A Clutter Buster
To be a clutter buster you've got to be able to identify which items in your home are truly clutter, and which are not.

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Declutter Plastic Cutlery & Take Out Supplies

Declutter Plastic Cutlery
Today's decluttering mission is to declutter plastic and disposable silverware and cutlery as well as other take out supplies.

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Declutter & Recycle Plastic Grocery Bags

Declutter & Recycle Plastic Grocery Bags
This mission is to declutter and recycle plastic grocery bags, as well as winnow it down to a more reasonable amount of paper bags if you have too many.

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Place Trash Bins Throughout House

Place Trash Bins Throughout House
This Declutter 365 mission is to make sure you've placed trash bins throughout your house wherever they're needed.

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How To Declutter Reusable Shopping Bags & Grocery Totes

Declutter Reusable Shopping Bags
This mission is to declutter reusable shopping bags and grocery totes from your home, at least to the extent you've got an excess supply.

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Week #6 Organized Home Challenge Trash And Home Recycling Center

Trash And Home Recycling Center
This week's challenge is to create a home recycling center that is attractive and functional, so it's easier for your family to go green, and recycle more of the waste created.

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Taylor's Review Of Eat At Home Meal Plans

Taylor's Review Of Eat At Home Meal Plans
Here's my review of the Eat At Home monthly meal plans, to help you save time and money, while being able to eat meals as a family, at home, more often.

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Get Rid Of Email Clutter In Your Inbox

Get Rid Of Email Clutter In Your Inbox
This decluttering mission is to get rid of email clutter in your email inbox.

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How To Get Rid Of Charger, Cable & Cord Clutter

Get Rid Of Cord Clutter
This mission is to declutter chargers, cables and cords around your home to get rid of excess ones that you no longer want or use.

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Electronics Disposal Guide

Electronics Disposal Guide
Here is an electronics disposal guide which provides the best ways to donate, sell and/or recycle or dispose of items such as computers, monitors, TVs, cell and smart phones, video gaming systems, and more when decluttering.

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How To Clean Your Desk Clutter & Make It A Habit

How To Clean Your Desk Clutter
This declutter mission is to clean your desk of clutter, and then to begin the process of making it a habit to clear off your desk top regularly.

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Free Printable Home Office Supplies List

Home Office Supplies List
Here's a free printable home office supplies list you can use to make sure you've properly stocked your home office and have all the essential supplies available when you need them.

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Week #24 Organized Home Challenge Manage & Organize Email & Other Digital Information

Manage & Organize Email
In this challenge we're tackling our digital inbox so we can manage and organize email and other digital information.

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How To Declutter Desk Drawers In Your Home Office

Declutter Desk Drawers
This mission is to declutter your home office desk drawers, removing whatever type of clutter you may have in them.

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Tips For Decluttering Pens And Pencils

Decluttering Pens And Pencils
This mission is simple, and that's to declutter pens and pencils keeping only those you actually need, and that work.

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Week #23 Organized Home Challenge Home Office Organization

Home Office Organization
In this week's Home Office Organization Challenge I give step by step instructions for getting this area of your home organized so you can get your household paperwork done efficiently, and without the need to search everywhere for what you need.

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5 Tips For Planning Your Summer Routine With Your Kids

5 Tips For Planning Your Summer Routine With Your Kids
Here are 5 tips to help you make a good summer routine with your kids, so both they and you have an enjoyable summer holiday from school.

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5 Tips For Time Management For Parents

5 Tips For Time Management For Parents
Here are 5 tips for time management for parents, to help you keep organized so daily life runs more smoothly for yourself and your kids.

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Free Printable Summer Decluttering Checklist

Summer Decluttering Checklist
Here is a free printable summer decluttering checklist that you can use to get rid of clutter around your home when summer begins.

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Essential Household Chores List When In Survival Mode

Essential Household Chores Lis
When things get hard in life, and we're in survival mode, we still need to do this household chores list, including these 5 daily chores and 3 weekly tasks.

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Password Organizer Ideas: Paper & Electronic

Password Organizer Ideas
Here are lots of password organizer ideas, using real life examples, that you can use, both paper and electronic, to keep track of these vital pieces of information so you (or a loved one if you're unavailable) can access your online accounts and websites if needed.

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How To Organize Warranties & Manuals

Organize Warranties
This mission is to organize warranties and user manuals that you've got in your home, so when you have a question about how a piece of equipment works, or need to diagnose an issue with an appliance, or something breaks down and needs to be fixed by the manufacturer you can find the right documents and information.

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Comprehensive Printable Decluttering Checklist For Your Entire Home

Decluttering Checklist For Your Entire Home
To compliment the Declutter 365 plan I've created this fully comprehensive printable decluttering checklist for every area and type of item within your home. When you purchase these digital, printable lists you get access to 33 different checklists.

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Get A 2023 Membership In Declutter 365 Premium

2023 Membership In Declutter 365 Premium
Here's how to get a membership to the Declutter 365 Premium Facebook group for 2023, to get access to the video archives, monthly group decluttering coaching sessions, and encouragement and accountability with Taylor, to declutter, organize and maintain your home.

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How To Declutter Gift Bags

Declutter Gift Bags
This mission is to declutter gift bags, including those for holidays such as Christmas, as well as seasonal and celebration themed bags, like those for birthdays and anniversaries.

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Organize Wrapping Paper & Gift Bags

Organize Wrapping Paper
Your challenge this week is to organize wrapping paper, gift bags, tissue paper, ribbons and bows so you can access everything when you need it easily, and yet keep it out of the way the rest of year.

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How To Declutter Movies & Videos

Declutter Movies & Videos
This mission is to declutter your movie and video collection, in whatever form it might be in, such as DVDs, Blu-ray, VHS tapes, or digital copies.

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Will You Support Declutter 365 With A Small Donation?

Support Declutter 365 With A Small Donation
Will you support Declutter 365 and the website with a small donation, to help keep the plan free and available to everyone?

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Week #49 Organized Home Challenge Christmas Decoration Storage & Organization

Christmas Decoration Storage & Organization
Your challenge this week is to work on Christmas decoration storage and organization so you can safely store, and then find and display the items you love and get rid of the rest.

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Taylor's Round Up Of Black Friday Through Cyber Monday Deals & Sales

Taylor's Round Up Of Black Friday Through Cyber Monday Deals & Sales
Here is my round up of the best Black Friday through Cyber Monday deals and sales around the web, throughout this brief portion of the holiday season. During these days the page is updated frequently with the best deals I've found, so check back often!

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Car Emergency Kit List {With Printable}

Car Emergency Kit List
Here's a list of everything you should have in your car emergency kit, with a free printable checklist.

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Free Printable 3 Day Emergency Supply List

Emergency Supply List
Here's a free printable emergency supply list, with a checklist of items necessary for an emergency preparedness kit for three days.

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How {And Why} To Replenish & Declutter Emergency Supplies

Declutter Emergency Supplies
This mission is to replenish or declutter your emergency supplies that you've accumulated in previous years, such as if you've done the 52 Week Organized Home Challenge before, or have otherwise gathered up supplies in case of emergencies in the past.

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7 Strategies For Clearing Clutter When You Don't Know Where To Start

7 Strategies For Clearing Clutter
If you're feeling overwhelmed about where to start clearing clutter, here are strategies you can use to begin today!

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52 Weeks To An Organized Home: 2023 Plan

52 Weeks To An Organized Home: 2023 Plan
I've now got the plan for 2023 published, so come on over and get your free copy of this printable, and get ready for an organized 2023! Get your copy, and also sign up for the FREE newsletter, which sends you each week's mission in an email!

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The 2022 Home Management Bundle: The Best One Yet!

The 2022 Home Management Bundle
The Home Management Bundle has 86 resources to help you improve your home and life, including printables, eBooks and eCourses that are worth more than $2,500, for 98% off, but it's only available for a limited time.

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Week #45 Organized Home Challenge Create An Emergency Preparedness Kit

Create An Emergency Preparedness Kit
In this week's challenge we'll make an emergency preparedness kit to make sure our family is secure in the case of a disaster or other emergency, plus do a few other safety related tasks around our homes as well.

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Top 13 Places To Donate Used Books

Top 13 Places To Donate Used Books
When you're ready to donate used books as part of the decluttering process, here's the top 13 places to consider, with suggestions for textbooks, kids books, novels, and more.

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How To Declutter Kids Books

How To Declutter Kids Books
This mission is to declutter kids books, from their bedrooms, playrooms, or whatever other living space in your home you keep them.

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How To Declutter Bookcases & Bookshelves

Declutter Bookcases
This mission is to declutter bookcases and bookshelves throughout your home, of books or whatever else you have stored on them.

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How To Get Rid Of Book Clutter

Book Clutter
This mission is to get rid of your book clutter.

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Week #44 Organized Home Challenge How To Organize Books

How To Organize Books
This week, in the Organize Books Challenge, we'll declutter and organize this type of reading material in our homes, using the step by step instructions below.

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Halloween Candy Buy Back Program: Declutter Excess & Old Candy

Halloween Candy Buy Back Program
Here's lots of ways to declutter leftover Halloween candy, including the Halloween Candy Buy Back program and even more ideas.

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How To Store Fabric: File It!

How To Store Fabric
Here's how to store fabric by filing it.

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Declutter Craft Room

Declutter Craft Room
This mission is to declutter your craft room, or if you don't have an entire room, the area you do your crafting in.

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How To Declutter Kids Craft Supplies & Equipment

Declutter Kids Craft Supplies
This mission is to declutter kids' craft supplies and equipment in your home, so your kids (and you) can enjoy crafting without a mess.

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How To Declutter Craft Supplies & Equipment

Declutter Craft Supplies
This mission is to declutter craft supplies and equipment from your home that you no longer use or love, so you can enjoy the hobby materials you do keep.

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Declutter Abandoned Craft Projects

Declutter Abandoned Craft Projects
This decluttering mission is to declutter abandoned and unfinished craft projects. And if you love to craft, even a little, you probably have at least one of these lurking types of projects around somewhere.

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Week #43 Organized Home Challenge Craft Organization

Craft Organization
Your challenge this week is craft organization, including both of all your supplies and equipment and the room or area where you do your crafting.

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