Getting Organized - Free!

First, place a laundry basket on the floor in front of each room’s doorway.

You can use an empty box if you like. It really doesn’t matter. Now walk around the house, going from room to room, and pick up those things that do not belong in the rooms you found them in. Instead, drop them into the baskets in front of the doors that represent the rooms they do belong in.

Once finished, go back to each room, pick up the basket, and place it inside the room to be gone through as you organize that room. Just put the basket in a corner where it won’t be in the way for now.

~ Organizing 101, by Tara L. Bertic

And so begins the great cleanup! Or maybe your house is fairly well organized, but there are one or two problem areas that you never seem to keep under control? Organizing 101 has tips for you too! There are helpful hints for keeping track of take-out menus, appliance warranties & instruction manuals, bottles of medicine or photos too.

The good news is that this 30-page e-book filled with tips for every room of the house is free from Homeschool eStore this week! Head on over to download your copy, anytime during the week of 3 March 2008, and there will be no charge! If you don’t already have a membership you’ll need to sign up for one but this is also free.

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