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.
Week #19 Organized Home Challenge: Create A First Aid & Medicine Organizer Center
This week's challenge is to create a medicine organizer and first aid kit center in your home, to make sure you have the right supplies for your family when they need them.
Here is a printable first aid kit contents list that you can post in your home to make sure you've got all the necessary supplies at home for when you need them.
Week #18 Organized Home Challenge: Bathroom Organization
Whether your bathroom is big or small, bathroom organization is key to making the space functional and pleasant. Here are step by step instructions for this week's challenge to make it work for you.
Week #17 Organized Home Challenge: Create A House Cleaning Schedule You Can Stick To
Creating a house cleaning schedule can help you keep peace and order in your home, most of the time, as long as you can stick to it. Find the secrets for making a realistic schedule you can follow here. In addition, we're organizing our cleaning supplies this week too.
Rubbermaid Kitchen Recycling Bin Review {Plus Giveaway}
Happy Earth Day everyone! I wanted to have a giveaway in honor of this special day, and I think this one fits the bill quite nicely. I recently installed the Rubbermaid hidden recycler behind my kitchen cabinet, and love the convenience of this small kitchen recycling bin. Read my review, plus enter to win your own in the giveaway. This giveaway ends on April 30th, so go ahead and enter today!
Is Clutter Organization Possible? No - You've Got To Toss It!
Lots of us say, it's time for clutter organization, and roll up our sleeves to get to work. But can you actually organize clutter? Find out the answer and a better way to go about this issue.
Week #16 Organized Home Challenge: Home Office Organization
In this week's Home Office Organization Challenge I'll give step by step instructions for getting this area of your home organized so you can get your household paperwork done.
What To Do When Your Loved One Is A Clutterer {Decluttering Series}
If you live with a clutterer or messy person it's difficult to declutter and clean up your home. Get tips for how to deal with this problem, while still loving your friend or family member.
Week #15 Organized Home Challenge: Organize Passwords, Warranties & Manuals
In this week's challenge there are step by step instructions for how to organize passwords, along with warranties and manuals for items in your home, so you can access this vital information when needed.
Use this free printable password organizer form to keep track of the passwords and usernames for websites and other business accounts, so you can remember how to access your information when needed.
Clutter Busters: 6 Emotions Chaining You To Clutter & How To Break Free
Lots of us want to be clutter busters, but we've got emotional issues with our stuff hindering us from decluttering. Here are some ideas for dealing with these issues, so you can find your path to peace.
Errands To Do List App Review: How I Use It In My Everyday Life
Jessica shared how she uses the Errands To Do List app for iPhone and iPad to help keep her organized and on task in and around her home.Jessica says:I
Week #13 Organized Home Challenge: Organize Files And Create Home Filing System
In this week's challenge we'll tackle how to organize files so you can find the paper and documents you need, when you need them, without having to spend all your time filing. Here are step by step instructions.
Week #12 Organized Home Challenge: Create A Personal Tax Organizer System And Organize Receipts
In this week's challenge you'll learn the steps to create a personal tax organizer system, and to organize receipts, to make tax time as simple as possible.
Week #11 Organized Home Challenge: How To Organize Bills
This week's challenge is about how to organize bills, so you can pay them on time, find them if you need to reference them again, and finally learn how long to keep paid bills before tossing them. Get step by step directions here.
Tips For Decluttering Your Home: Find Your Path To Peace {Series}
Here are tips for decluttering your home so you can find your path to peace in your home. Don't let clutter rob you of another second of joy, but instead learn how to conquer it one item at a time with this series.
Weekly Meal Planner Hall of Fame: How Readers Plan Their Family's Meals
In the Weekly Meal Planner Hall of Fame participants in the 52 Week Organized Home Challenge share various strategies for how they plan their family's meals from week to week, and these methods actually work. I hope these ideas inspire you too!
How To Make A Grocery List That Works: Hall of Fame
In the Make a Grocery List Hall of Fame readers who've taken week #8's organizing challenge share how they make a food shopping list each week that keeps them organized at home and while grocery shopping.
Organizing Coupons Hall of Fame: How Readers Do It
There are lots of methods for organizing coupons, from binders, envelopes, folders, clipping versus filing inserts, etc. Here is a hall of fame where several readers have shared their best tips for coupon organization, so you can make a decision how you want to do it too.
Home Recycling Containers Ideas For Your Kitchen And Other Rooms: Hall of Fame {Part 2}
In part 2 of the Home Recycling Containers hall of fame even more readers share their pictures of what containers and spaces they use for keeping their recycling organized in their homes. Get some ideas of your own here.
Organizing Recipes On The Computer Hall of Fame: Electronic Recipe Organizer Edition
Do you want to organize recipe on the computer? If so, here are some hall of fame posts from readers who have used electronic recipe organizer products, both free and paid, to get the job done. Come check them out and see what's worked for them.
Organize Freezer And Refrigerator Challenge: Hall of Fame {Part 3}
In part 3 of the Organize Freezer and Refrigerator Challenge Hall of Fame more readers share their success, including with pictures, of their refrigerators and freezers after taking the challenge. Hope you get inspired! :)
Week #10 Organized Home Challenge: Create A Home Mail Organizer Center
This week's challenge is to create a home mail organizer center, which will help you keep track of incoming and outgoing mail, plus to develop certain routines and habits to keep on track with mail organization. Here are the steps to take.
How To Stop Junk Mail: Instructions To Opt Out And Eliminate It
If you're wondering how to stop junk mail, here are some simple to follow instructions for many common types, so you can opt out and eliminate as much of it as possible, for free.
How To Build Self Confidence: Course For Personal Empowerment
If you're wondering how to build self confidence, to empower yourself to acheive your dreams for both personal and professional development, the Simple Self Confidence course can help you. Here's an exclusive intereview with one of the course instructors, Barrie Davenport, plus more about this 4 week online course which begins on March 3rd.
Week #9 Organized Home Challenge: Create Simple Address Book And Organize Contact Information
In this week's challenge you'll create a simple address book and organize the contact information you've collected for friends, family, businesses and emergencies so it is available when you need it. Here's the steps to take.
The Organizer Store: Products To Organize & Improve Your Home & Life
The Organizer Store at Home Storage Solutions 101 is your source for my hand selected and reviewed products to help you organize and improve your home and life.
Rubbermaid Bento Boxes are designed to not only store objects, but to keep the contents organized at the same time. Enter the giveaway to win a set, in the color paprika, worth a retail value of $113.93. Enter the giveaway on or before February 27, 2012.
How To Stop Procrastinating: Free Ebook From Leo Babauta Of Zen Habits
Many of us ask ourselves the question, how to stop procrastinating? That's because procrastination can rob us of what's most important, our time. Here's a free gift from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, called The Little Guide to Un-Procrastination. Claim your free copy today (don't procrastinate!) :) ***UPDATE: This was a one day giveaway, and is now closed.***
Week #8 Organized Home Challenge: Healthy Meal Planning And Grocery Shopping List
Your challenge this week is to get in the habit of healthy meal planning, and creating a grocery shopping list so you don't forget anything at the store each time you go. Here are the steps to take.
Here is a free printable grocery list form you can use to quickly check off the items you need, or the quantity required, each time you go to the store.
Naked Binder is a company which believes in organizing, the green way. They make eco friendly recycled binders, tabs, labels, folders, and CD holders. Come enter the giveway to try to win a set for yourself.
Simple Online Budget Software {Giveaway}: PearBudget To Track Your Money
PearBudget is a really simple online budget software system, using the principle of the envelope system, to help you budget for the future and track where your money really went during the month. Enter the giveaway today for your chance to win an annual subscription, and everyone can sign up for a 30 day free trial.
Printable Weekly Dinner Menu With Premade Grocery List Sample
If you're stuck for what to make for dinner, here's a printable weekly dinner menu with premade grocery list sample, with recipes included, so you can plan a full week of meals with your family. This printable is courtesy of Crystal, from MakeDinnerEasy.com.
Taking Care Of Self: Create A Self Care Plan For Greater Happiness In Your Life {Free Ebook}
Taking care of self is such an important principle for a balanced, happy, peaceful and healthy life. Learn how to create a self care plan for yourself with this free ebook.
Healthy Snack Ideas & Recipes Ebook: Free Copy Of Healthy Snacks To Go, 1st ed.
If you try to make healthy dinners for your family, you may also like to try some healthy snack ideas and recipes too, so you can feed your family real whole foods all the time, and save some money in the process.
Katie Kimball, from Kitchen Stewardship, is giving all Home Storage Solutions 101 readers a free copy of her Healthy Snacks to Go ebook, first edition, until February 29th, and also giving an exclusive coupon code to buy the second edition of the ebook for $4 off (deadline again is the 29th)!
Personal Time Management Skills Ebook: Tell Your Time {Giveaway}
Tell Your Time is a very quick read, which is perfect for anyone needing to develop personal time management skills, since it is short and sweet. It focuses on time management for parents, including moms, and has lots of practical and real life advice. Enter the giveaway on or before February 24, 2012, for your chance to win a PDF copy.
How To Deal With Stress Naturally: Free Stress Management PDF
Learning how to deal with stress naturally is a large part of living an organized and happy life. Don't let your long to do list get you down. Instead, take advantage of this free stress management PDF to guide you through self-meditation or self-hypnosis to relieve your stressful feelings.
Family Meal Planning Ebook: Plan It Don't Panic {Giveaway}
Eating together as a family is so important for many reasons. To make sure this is an enjoyable stress free time you need to employ some family meal planning strategies, and this ebook, Plan It, Don't Panic, can help. You can enter the giveaway on before February 23, 2012.
Plan to Eat is an online meal planner resource you can use to handle all the portions of planning your meals, from recipe organization, creating your grocery shopping list, and, of course, planning your menu for the week. Everyone can sign up for a free 30 day trial, and you can also enter the giveaway for one of several annual subscriptions. You can enter the giveaway on or before February 23, 2012.
Independent stylist for Stella & Dot Pam Rukas is giving away a $50 credit for one lucky reader who enters the giveaway on or before February 22, 2012.
Personal Development Goals Checklist: The 110 Elements of a Bold and Happy Life
Get this free printable personal development goals checklist, listing the 110 elements of a bold and happy life, to help you identify areas of strength and where you want to work on conscious improvement of your life next. This is a free gift for everyone from Barrie Davenport of Live Bold & Bloom.
Claim your free house cleaning checklist ebook, which contains 7 checklists, three blank schedules, instructions for use, and a bonus cleaning supplies checklist. Everyone's a winner of this giveaway too!
How To Simplify Your Life Ebook: 7 Guiding Principles {Giveaway}
Joshua Becker has offered to give five winners a free PDF copy of his ebook, Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home And Life. Please make sure you enter this giveaway on or before February 21st.
How To Organize Your Life: Week Of Giveaways Has Begun!
As part of the How to Organize Your Life Giveaway I'm giving away several products from prominent bloggers and organizing companies that can help you organize everything, and gain the skills you need to improve your life. Come claim your free gifts today.
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