Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you have too much on your “To Do” list? Does it feel like there just isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done?
Well, you are NOT alone!
Lack of organization is a common problem. But, there’s hope!
Saidah @ AProverbsWife.com is a very organized blogger and homemaker. If you read her blog (or even her guest post from a while back – Homemaking 101: Setting Some Boundaries) you can tell she knows a thing or two about organization. And you have the opportunity to have her be your personal coach by reading her eworkbook, How to Get Organized in 24 Hours, that is releasing TODAY!
$10.99 from 12am EST 9/6 until 9/8 at 11:59 pm EST
$12.99 thereafter
I had the privilege of going through How to Get Organized in 24 Hours last week and I can’t say enough good things about it! First of all, the length of the book is perfect. It has plenty of content but it’s not so long that you feel like you could have used that time getting organized. Second, Saidah actually walks you though the steps to get organized. You work while you read! By the time you finish going through the workbook you are organized, you have a plan in place, and you know exactly what to do next. Plus, she helps you figure out a plan to delegate age appropriate tasks to your child(ren)!
We all know how crazy the fall/winter can be and how holiday festivities seem to kick everything into overdrive. Why not get organized NOW so you can be prepared and enjoy the next few months? Saidah is offering an introductory price for How to Get Organized in 24 Hours until Wednesday, 11:59pm EST.
One more thing! Saidah has also agreed to give away a copy of How to Get Organized in 24 Hours to an iDreamofClean reader!! Woot!! (Don’t worry: if you buy a copy and then win, your purchase price will be refunded). There are two ways to enter:
- Tell us what your biggest challenge is to getting organized or tell us your favorite organizing tip in the comments.
- Tweet or Facebook the following: Win a copy of How to Get Organized in 24 Hours on @iDreamofClean http://bit.ly/bgYWqB (leave a comment letting me know you did.)
GOOD LUCK! Comments will be closed at 11:59pm EST on September 13.
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I tweeted this.
My fave organizing tip is putting utensils into the dishwasher in categories. To keep the spoons from nesting, just put some right side up and some right side down. This way, you can pull out a bunch at a time and put them in your utensil drawer organizer. Saves lots of time and energy! thanks for the opp!
My biggest challenge is paperwork. Stopping snail-mail bills helped tremendously, but I still have trouble dealing with school papers, coupons, and the rest of the paper that seems to multiply overnight.
My best tip is to organize gift bags in a milk crate using hanging file folders.
Sadly, that is my only tip. I struggle with EVERYTHING! I I could keep on top of the daily stuff I think I could really get organized.
I don’t know where to start with the office papers.
My favorite tip is everytime I walk either up or down the stairs, I don’t “waste” the trip, I take something, sometimes lots of things that need to go either up, or down and put them away!
Thanks for the giveaway!!!
I need organizing help with our clothes and laundry most of all! We have small closets and a laundry room in the basement, so we literally have clothes all over the house!
I tweeted this :)
My biggest challenges for getting organized are 1) just getting started and 2) keeping up with it.
I would have to say that what I see as my biggest organizational struggle right now is that everytime I try to organize an area, as I’m working on it, someone else is creating a disaster somewhere else that I have to stop halfway through to fix and then I’ve left a mess behind me too!
My big thing I am working on this school year is keeping paper work organized.
My hardest part is trying to find time to get organized. I need more hours to the day.
My biggest challenge in getting organized is I can never finish a project. Little kids interrupting, etc. I just read Getting Things Done and got some good info from it, though it is so business & office focused.
KID’S CLOTHES AND TOYS!!!! Oh my word that’s a challenge!
My biggest challenge is not being lazy! :) Also, creating a home for everything….we have lots of piles lying around.
My problem is in my craft area..I need to organize all my papers and stuff from scrapbook.
papers and baby clothes are my personal waterloo right now.
Clutter (Crap) Baskets – I put a little basket on the stairs for each of my kids – when I find ‘something’ that belongs to them that goes upstairs I just put it in the basket and they put it away on our way upstairs for the night.
my biggest organizing challenge is paper.
My biggest challenge is of things not having homes. I can clean up one area, but then I don’t know where to go with the stuff I cleaned out. So I put it in my bedroom and walk around it forever… or jump over it~ to get into bed. :P
I tweeted this!
http://twitter.com/familyfrugal
Gosh, so many places in my life I struggle with organization. I’d say bedrooms are the worst for me. I use them as glorified junk closets and if company is coming over I just shove everything into our bedrooms! I would LOVE to win this book!
My biggest challenge is getting started. Everything is overwhelming, so I get stuck just trying to figure out where to start! Help!!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
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I think my biggest challenge is lack of space. It’s also my biggest motivator! But I love to learn things about how to be organized in as little space as possible.
I tweeted! :D
We are four people living in a 3 closet home. It is a daily struggle for me to find storage for items that should be kept but kept out of view.
My biggest problem is starting an organization project and sticking with it! Also, having a difficult time getting rid of the pack rat mentality!
My biggest challenge right now is that I got married in February and moved into the house my husband had been living in for 5 years. A lot of stuff is still where it was when he moved in. Now that we’re having a baby in 3 months, we have a lot of organizing and rearranging to do.
I can’t get a handle on my clothes/shoes. I give away a lot to charities, but I still have more than can fit in my closet. I know there is some miracle configuration out there that I just haven’t seen yet so that I can keep everything I love, and have it all fit neatly in one place.
My biggest challenge is finding the TIME to organize or I guess time management (since I seem to find plenty of time to play on the internet). I just took 30 minutes to organize a big pile of clutter this morning and that felt awesome–need to do that more often! Anyway, I’d LOVE to win, thanks!
My favorite tip is to create a 24 month “catch all” filing system. I know, I know a filing system. I used to hate them too. They always start with “figure out what categories you need…” but seriously, how the heck do I KNOW what I need? So I would keep everything. Which leads to a serious mess on my counter and no ability to find any piece of paper.
You need 26 file folders, a cute basket or box to hold them in and a pen to label them. You will label the first 12 with the months of the year and the notation “even year”.
January-even year
February -even year
Then the next 12 will be the months of the year and the notation “odd year”.
January-odd year
Still with me?
You should have 2 folders left. I made these last two folders red so they would stand out. One is “Tax docs-even year” and the other is “Tax doc-odd year”.
Whenever you get a piece of paper you should keep you simply pop it into the correct folder. After 24 months you take the papers out, do a quick sort, file what you still need in a long term filing system and shred the rest. The tax docs come out at tax time and you will have everything you need to do your taxes in one place. After the taxes are done I file these docs with our taxes. Viola!
This doesn’t take care of 100% of our filing needs, but over 95% of our stuff is filed in here. It allows me to keep everything yet it is organized and I have a much better idea of what to keep or toss after 2 years when I clean it out.
Our biggest challenge is organizing clothes and paperwork!
My biggest challenge is that I am so busy during the week that I don’t take the time to keep things organized, and then I end up with so much to catch up on during my weekend when I should be taking some time to relax.
I need so much help to get motivated! Once I get going, I still need help, but it’s the getting started that’s hard.
My home is such a mess and I am so overwhelmed that I don’t know where to start!
I tweeted the giveaway! http://twitter.com/theladyinblack3/status/24003013833
Boy, could I use this book! I’m so overwhelmed …
My most difficult place to keep organized in my closet….. :(
My biggest challenge is simply getting the motivation to start! I am so lazy sometimes…
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I have a lot of challenges- paperwork, general clutter, and a complete lack of routine!
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Biggest challenge in getting organized is where to put the clutter.
I think it is definitely the paper clutter. I feel like I’ve tried different organizational tools for this and it just is overwhelming. Although now that I have one in 1st grade and one in Kinder (and we just started school on Tuesday), I’m hoping I’m better prepared and this year will be better and more organized. Since this is JUST the beginning of alot of years of school:-)
As the mother of 3 small children (ages 4, 2, 8 months) with a baby on the way, I find myself often just “stuffing” things out of the way. Our home is small with NO closets on the main floor (we have 2 bedrooms with 1 closet in each). I struggling knowing how to keep things where I need them while making things safe for my little children. I often feel like I just run around like a chicken with my head cut off.
My biggest challenge is living with a husband and kids that don’t work with systems.
My biggest challenge could be figuring out where to start :-( Papers everywhere are definately a big problem.
My perfectionism is my biggest roadblock- I never get anything done because I’m so overwhelmed by the thought of how far it is from perfect that I don’t know where to start!
My favorite tip/tool us my home management binder! I love it!
My biggest challenge is raising two boys age 3 months and 18 months.
My biggest challenge is staying on task/getting distracted!
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