Welcome to my NEW corner of the web! Doitonadimeblog.com! I’m thrilled to have this (much more official) space for a new year of videos, organizing, and frugal living. YAY! 🙂
I wanted to kick it off right with a Dollar Tree Giveaway for you guys and an exciting announcement about the month of January: I AM GOING TO BE POSTING A NEW ORGANIZING VLOG TWICE A WEEK FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH!
I want to help you, inspire you, and encourage you to get organized this year. Expect videos seeing organized spaces, new tips, tricks, and solutions (all on a budget), and motivation videos to get you on your way. Still same old me. Real systems that actually work for this busy people.
For those of you wondering about the blog, that’s a huge thanks my friend Rachel (The Patriot Nurse) for snagging the domain name for me. She did this way long ago, even before I was a blogger, because she wanted to pay it forward. Yes, amazing kindness and people like this still exist 🙂 Also thanks to my husband for helping me with my logo and his techy-skills to make this transfer happen.
A giant hug to all of YOU, who follow my youtube, my blog, write me kind messages, and make this a genuine community. I appreciate each and every one of you! <3 Let’s do this thing!
Hi, I would like to organize my desk and our new baby’s room! Thanks!
I really want to organize my kitchen,desk, and laundry area.!!!!!I love your videos and have found them so helpful!
love your youtube videos.
2015 I would like to organize a closet in the living room – I keep candles, matches, vases, batteries there.
Greetings from Germany
Gabi
So excited about your new blog! I have always enjoyed your tips on your Youtube channel. As a Mom I am interested in organizing our paper clutter, toys, games & kid’s clothes. Also how to make my day more productive and checking off those “to do lists”. Looking forward to each of your posts! 🙂
I would like to get my nail plolish desk cleaned up!
I am new at organizing so I am embarrassed to admit I need to organize my entire home. Love your videos.
I love your videos and am looking forward to more. I so need to get my kitchen organized!
Congrats on your new venture!! I’m trying to keep my closets organized!!
I’m going to try & organise our kitchen, I’ve done wee bits & pieces thanks to your vids ^.^
I knit, loom knit and sew. I live in a small apartment and need to stay very organized. Any tips you have are appreciated.
Kitchen will hopefully be better organised this year! xx
I NEED to organize my bedroom. .
LOVE the new look Kathryn! Can’t wait for all the new organizing ideas! I will be organizing along with you….and I’ll be sure to mention your giveaway on my blog! 🙂
(Does that count for an entry? 🙂 !)
I would like to see “tupperware” organization space in the kitchen
Love your videos. I just went out to get a power strip cover to begin organizing some of all of those wires!
Hi! I love the idea of tons of organizing videos coming! 🙂 I have so many things to organize..but I’ll say the main things are the scrapcorner and the home office, areas that that we prefer to keep separated.Thanks 🙂
I would like to organize my recipes and recipe books and also my kitchen cupboard. I love watching your videos. You are easy to understand and you explain things very well. And love seeing little Carson grow!
My attic and my craft room still need TLC
I am so excited to get started on my organization in 2015! As a business owner at home, I’m in a constant battle to separate business from home life. And then throw in my quilting. Yikes! I’m bound and determined to organize this year! And thank you so much for your great ideas! I always look forward to your videos.
Love your YouTube channel! Excited about your new blog space! I have 2 girls and ages 7 and 1, and I need help organizing their toys, clothing closet as they share a room. Also my linen closet and my bathroom which does not have any under sink storage option!
I’m a big fan of your YOUTUBE channel and I need help organizing closets.
I like your videos. They have helped me get things together. My problem is furniture placement so you can bring in bins and things. SO my area is the living space. Kids rooms are also a second area. I have ages 17 down to 2 years old. So different ages call for different solutions.
I’m trying to organize a birthday party for my boy/girl twins.
Love the chance to win something from the Dollar Tree. What did we do before it was opened? I would love to see a video on organizing my linen closet and pantries. Keep up the good work. Hugs!
Love to hear abt new blog more kitchen organization…goodluck for your new blog
How to organize your basement/storage area 🙂
Hi! I love your upbeat personality and your videos are the best! I would definitely like to see more kitchen organization videos – especially spice cabinet organization, pots/pans, and baking stuff. Thanks — Kalene
My husband and I just bought a home recently. We have 4 children and i am in need of toy organization tips for them for easy clean up as well as kitchen and bathroom organization tips…We are full of clutter. I’ve seen all your you tube videos..love them they are super helpful and fun.
i would love tips on organizing a spare room and craft area.
I am so excited about this serious. The area I want to get organized the most is my filing cabinet. Time to clean out those old papers and make room for new ones. 🙂
Oh where to begin on where I need assistance organizing 😉
How about a video for kitchen appliances (blenders, mixers, food processors, etc.)?
I love your videos. They are so motivating for me when I’m feeling like I’ve gotten a bit behind and have zero motivation. It’s a quick pick me up that usually jumps starts some productivity.
I’m a huge fan of your Youtube channel and really enjoy your recipes and Dollar Tree ideas! Can’t wait to see if you make suggestions for photos and scrapbook storage/organizing and also makeup storage. Have a great holiday week! xox
I would like to organize our messy closet, which doesn’t function as a closet but as a dumping ground for any things which don’t have place anywhere else. There are tons of things which should be thrown away, but I haven’t had the heart to do it properly.. Maybe one idea for your videos could be connected with decluttering or purging belongings…
I would like to organise my 10 month old daughter wardrobe.
Love your videos!
Love Lauren and Baby Coral Grace xxx
Hi, I would love to see more organizational tips for the classroom. Love all that you have done so far.
I have been working on organizing life around my home for a few years. A couple of really good things have come out of it (lazy susan in our fridge, spice drawer and a couple of bin solutions in the kitchen). Still many areas of our kitchen need help – corner pot cupboard and under the sink. These are my two areas to “fix” in the coming months :). Loving your new blog Kathryn!!! Hope your Christmas was spectacular – Christine xoxo
My teenage daughters bedroom is a disaster! She can not keep it clean. Laundry is the main culprit, but all her little trinkets and knick knacks also look very cluttered. Love the new blog and so excited for January!
I would love to organize my home office for work and college. I also need to organize my child’s closet space, which is very limited… Thanks so much!
Well I made myself a card keeper so I can make and send my cards on time for once, But I’d also like to get my cupboards and pantry more organized. Like those large appliances you don’t want on your counter tops, etc…and my pull out pantry drawers aren’t organized the best they could be. Frying pan, pots and pans, that just isn’t working for me either. lol And spices, I have a spice carousel but it doesn’t hold enough spices so I have them sitting in the cupboard in my way. We used to have a spice wire rack that hung on the cupboard for about 18 years, but I got tired of the door not closing all the way because someone didn’t put a spice bottle back in the right spot. Yes, I need help, lots of it! lol Thanks, I looks forward to organizing videos!!!
Hey Kathryn! Long time viewer here. 🙂 I am a mom to a 1yr old and as it is just after Christmas, I would LOVE some organizing tips for all of his new toys!!! Thanks so much for the upcoming tips and the awesome giveaway opportunity. You rock!
Megan W
I would like to organize my candle stash.
I want to reorganise our bedroom as I am expecting our second child and they will be spending the first few months in with us.
I need to find a way to have all of their things in with our stuff and for that to work well.
I have thoughts on what I’d do differently than the first time when I was making it all up as I went along but we’ve moved since our first so it’s a different space. Any tips would be welcome!
I would love ideas on how to organize my personal teacher materials that I bring home for safe keeping over the summer months. Also, since I have limited closet space, I need ideas on how to organize storage areas other than a closet. Thanks Kathyrn!
I love the enthusiasm shown in your videos. It makes me smile.
I need to organize my home office/craft room.
Thanks so much for your generosity!
Carol Rogers
I love your videos and blog and have been following you for quite some time. You are my favorite! I would like to organize my basement closet storage areas and my dining room hutch for the new year. Thank you!
Ohhhhhh… I’m so excited for your videos i just love your channel I’m so ready to get my things in order .. i would love to do every room in my house but my kitchen and bathroom need it most .. so excited for Jan. Yayyyyyyy.
You’re being covered in prayer, Kathryn. Love your vlogs and blog and have greatly benefited from them. Keep up the great work!
I really need to organize the clutter in my 650 square foot apartment. So furniture storage ideas closets; Lord help me, my closets. Here’s a picture. Oh wait i don’t know how to attach it to this reply. I love your videos and blog. You’re happy demeanor is catchy. Thank you. I really need this. I have adhd so I don’t think you realize how theses videos and your direction help me. Having ADHD makes it very difficult to stay organized without some help and ddirection of the right tools and vessels. Happy New Year to you and your family!
I would LOVE some great ideas on how to organize off season shoes, boots and clothes.
We have very limited closet space and I am always looking for new ideas.
Love your vlog !!!
Thanks so much for sharing.
I need help organizing my home office (mostly my desk, with all kinds of stray papers) and my husbands church office! I’m looking forward to all the new videos. God bless you.
It would be great to see how you organize a “gift closet” in a small area of your home with limited space. Thanks for all of your cheerful videos!
I would love to organize my bedroom, it seems like i use this room as a catch all, lol
I would love help with organizing all my closets. I have several for different things besides just clothes such as my crafts. Thanks for the giveaway
I would love to organise my closet, bags, scarves and files at the office
Yay!!! This is exciting!! I am looking to get my basement organized (bulk storage solutions, toy storage, etc.) Also my husband is crafty and I am a DIYer so we have craft stuff that needs to be organized (paint, brushes, glue, glitter… etc. AND closet/dresser/bedroom stuff! 🙂
Hey! This is so exciting. I would like to see new uses for free things around the house, like stuff I would normally recycle. Love your content!
I have a 4×5′ walk-in pantry and just cannot get it organized so it flows smoothly. What a nice giveaway!
I would like to organize my laundry room. Love the videos
ugh under the kitchen sink and bathroom sink! I have things in containers but now I’ve lost motivation to organize the containers LOL. I also have my home desk that is a catch all for EVERYTHING! Love Love Love your channel, ideas and looking forward to getting oranized and motivation in the coming new year. Blessings to your family
A great giveaway! I’m hoping to organize all of my outdoor play toys for my two children. Also, the dreaded basement where I store all of my seasonal/holiday bins, tools and teacher resources that I am not using at the moment. Yes I have a lot of organizing to do!
I want to organize my closet, the kids room and my kitchen, I live in an apartment.
First, thank you for all the great tips and videos! I love them! We are trying to organize our garage, so we can get rid of our storage unit. It gets expensive! Also, organize a spare bedroom- office. Thanks
Hey, I’m not going to lie this is the first time in your blog but it seems pretty awesome. I would love to organize my home office/playroom for my kids. I been trying but I just seem to fail
Homeschool/art supplies. We don’t have a separate room or even a closet to put all our stuff in. I have a middle schooler so we don’t have lots of the educational toys like when she was younger but we do have books, science stuff, maps,etc. She is also very much into doing crafts and hands on projects so we have a lot of supplies (paint, glue, clay, markers/crayons etc.) and a variety of folders, paper, card stock, index cards, etc. for different projects. I have a bookcase in one of the living areas and two rolling carts that are supposed to be for craft supplies in the dining room where we do school/crafts but it’s all a huge mess.
This is great!!! I left a really important comment on your old site. I will try to copy and paste it here☺☺
I love watching your videos!! Hopefully in 2015 I will be trying to organize my whole house from my kitchen to my garage.
Where do I start?
I love both of your channels, your tips on organization had me hooked.
I would line to organize my closet and kitchen more….I have a love/hate relationship with tuber ware lids!!!!
I would like to better organize shoes, paperwork, spices in my kitchen cabinet, pantry, and jewelry. I love your upbeat positive attitude. I’m looking forward to seeing the new organizing videos.
I have lots of your videos to thank for getting parts of my house organized and thank you so much for continuing !! I would love to get my kitchen more organized along with our storage room, I would love to know your tips and tricks and would love to be entered into your giveaway please and thank you take care and happy new years to your family !! I am a canadian girl, and would love to hear what you would think would go good in my place for organizing thanks so muc h!!!
Hi- I have a special area in my basement for organizing all the things I don’t use on a regular basis that could use some better ideas, and a garage organization would also be great. Love your YouTube channel- I’m a longtime subscriber 🙂
I will be de-cluttering my while home but need help organizing my craft room. You have given me some tips before but I need more help. We call it the dreaded 5th room.
I would love to learn some new ways to organize my sons room. He turns 1 tomorrow and we’re going from baby rattles and toys to toddler toys, trucks and puzzles.
I can never find anything! I need help organizing my whole house! ! HELP!!!!
I would love to see a video about organizing my desk. It just becomes a trap for papers.
I’m trying to organized my kitchen pantry.and coat closet.
hi Kathryn
What a great news for 2015 ! Congratulations to you !
Can’t wait for inspiring videos !
Big Hi to you and your family from France !
Cecile
I need help with many areas. But I’m working on it thank you for inspiring me. I’ve started small with my fridge and under my bathroom sink. Next id like to tackle my room. I need to learn to purge and reduced clutter. Thank you!
I need to organize my home office in this coming year 2015.thank you I love your videos.
I am expecting twins in May and already have a toddler. So with 3 under 3 I need help organizing all of the baby stuff!
I would love help organizing my office/craft room. I work at home and scrapbook in the same room. It’s kind of a mess… I also like the idea someone else mentioned about help organizing the Tupperware cabinet. Love that you’ve got a blog now and a full month of organizing videos coming!
I love your videos! I am UK based so unfortunately there’s no dollar tree over here ): I need to organise my closet this year its a mess lol
Looking forward to the organizing videos. I would like to see organizing of bills and budgeting. 🙂 thanks for all the great advice.
I would like to organize my closets. Thanks for this giveaway!
I need lots of organization every where but what I’m most tired of is in my bedroom. The window gas become a catch me all for everything and it would be nice to actually walk in my walk in closet 😉 ♡ your channel and reading your blog!
I need help with my keepsakes! There are a lot of videos out there helping you pair down keepsake items, and videos on creative ways to display your favorite pieces. What I am having trouble with is where to store them in my house and what containers would be easiest to store and keep up with.
Hi Kathryn!
I would love to see more organizing vlogs. I need to purge and organize my computer room and corral all of the paper from all my other rooms and make some sense of things because it has overwhelmed me!
Thanks for sharing your tips!
I would like to organize my child’s table/play corner. So much different kinds of paper, crayons, pencils, craft items, and toys! I live in a one bedroom apartment with her so there’s not much room. Her area consists of a chunk of the living room. Thanks and I love your videos. Sometimes I play your videos for background “noise” because I like the sound of your voice =p
I would love to see a way to rotate cans. I stock up on things like soups, tomato sauce and other items like that and I would love a way for them to stay organized and not tip over as well as keep the older ones to be used first.
Hi Kathryn! I’m so excited and can’t wait to see the organizational videos you have planned. I would love to see one on organizing items like stuff not used often (ex. seasonal decorations and out of season clothing) that’s placed in storage in the attic or basement. I would also like to see a video on digital organizing – like how you organize files on your computer.
I would like ideas for organizing office/paperwork. Also, how to organize the to do ideas, ie: recipes to try, projects to start, things to do and books/movies to read or see, without having little scraps of papers everywhere to try and remind me of these things I would like to accomplish. The main challenge is only having a very small space to do all this in.
I’m an empty nester. With all four of my kids gone now, I’ve filled my home with “things” to replace the lonliness (which doesn’t work, by the way). I really need to knuckle down and make my house a home again. Even if it’s just for me. Love your videos Kathryn, keep up the great work. Also, thanks for standing for Jesus! Isn’t he AWESOME!!!
Hi, I love your channel. Always gives me great tips for everyday situations. My organization sugestion includes a little story. I just moved in with my fiance a few months ago and he loves to play video game, thankfully the joysticks are wireless, so it’s not a bigger mess, but they take a lot of space under the tv, and it doesn’t look very nice. So, ideas to organize the tv area and make it more adult, even with a lot of video games around. 😉
I would love to organize my sons room into a super teen room. Cause besides Jesus he’s the greatest gift a mom could ask for thanks.
Thanks Kathryn for your amazing video. I am interested in ideas for organizing small linen closet. Thank you so much.
I have several projects I wish to work on this coming year…..my linen closet (where extra bathroom essentials and first aid are kept), the infamous junk drawer in the kitchen, and the cabinet under my kitchen sink. Thank you so much for your wonderful videos! I hope you had a Merry Christmas an Blessed New Year!!!!!
I have a tall, narrow and deep kitchen pantry that is super difficult to organize! Everything in the back gets forgotten about because the pantry is so narrow and deep.
Help!!
I live in a townhouse, vintage 1974, so closet space is a commodity here. My one hall closet is a mess with sheets, towels, kitchen items that don’t fit in my kitchen, office supplies and items from my couponing hauls. Wire shelving is all I have, tips for how to organize it without making me go any nuttier than I am would be fantastic. 🙂
I have a dollar tree 10 mins from me and your videos give me inspiration to work on my clutter, especially since I have has a problem with it all my life. Plus your Goodwill Hauls entertain me too.
I love all of your videos! Looking forward to seeing your new organizing videos! I would like to see a video organizing your laundry room. Thanks so much for all your videos and advice.
i would like to organize my clothes and get rid of what I don’t wear instead of putting them in my loft . Hugs Tania xx
I have a super small home so organization is a must and I am always turning to your blog and videos for advice! I have used your advice in so many rooms in my home, car, etc. so THANK YOU! Like previous posters above, I am also struggling with my office space. I have to share my “office” with my dining room. I also like the idea of learning how you budget and do your bills every month.
I am far too excited about you having an Instagram account 😉 I am going to be organizing my entire mess of a home, but specifically my garage!
I would Love to organiza my cd’s. My stockpile from couponing.
I’ve to organize a guestroom in to a craftroom, and organize all my craftsupplies.
I love your videos!! I cant wait for even more organizing tips! I really need to organize all of my craft stuff (paper, tools, embellishments, etc) because I have accumulated so much stuff over the years but my craft space is so limited! Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they are so helpful and I just love your upbeat attitude!!
I need help in organizing old photos of my family as well as old genealogy photos of both my husband’s and mine. I also have tons of digital photos which are in different folders in the picture folder randomly placed with no order. Help!? Any advice would be most appreciated.
I would love to organize my whole house. It’s a small house so it’s hard to do it.
LOVE the giveaway idea! I would love to finally organize my home office space. I design and sell jewelry from home & really need help keeping orders on track and organized.
Looking for inspiration on how to orgainse my time, I’m a wife, mum to two young children (5+3), putting myself albeit late through university (full time) working part time at nights, have two dogs and part time carer to family members (4 of). Woa when you write it done there’s alot, no wonder I’m tired, lol. Anyhow most of the time its just trying to squeeze it all in and rushing here to there, any tips on making this a bit would be fab 😀 xx
Thank you for this chance to win. We’re going to be moving in the New Year so really, I’ll be redoing organization for the entire home but I’ll be really concentrating on my son’s room and my bedroom. They are in sore need of some organization.
Trying to organize craft room. Lots of yarn, scrapbooking supplies and fabric. Love your videos!!
Organizing paperwork and my home office.
Hi! I would love to get my whole life organized this year! lol But starting in my kitchen and desk areas! Especially tupperware and paper clutter!
Thanks!
I am organizing both boys bedroom we are remodeling for them for Christmas
I would love to organize my junk drawer, i know everyone has one of those, my babys room, and maybe my vanity area! Thanks i love your youtube channel!
Hello I need help with my meal organizing. I find myself throwing out meats because am not using them in time. Help!!!!
I would love ideas on how to organize pictures and photos. I have tons of them just stored in boxes and large rubber maid tubs. Thank you!
I love all your organizing tips, thank you. I would like to see how to organize the garage. We tend to just put everything in there with no order.
I would like to get my computer desk and bedroom organizing
I’m single yet I cannot get control over my kitchen “drop everything on it” table, even with baskets. (I’m up to 4, which is ridiculous.) Ways to contain
the little things we bring home would be so helpful!
my recipe book needs alot of help! i want to make my craft space more functional and less cluttered. my closets are lacking in functionality and seem to be a place for stuffing all my storage items. i really would like to have an organized project to do list and project stuff organized so that i will actually finish the projects i have wanted to complete for yrs. (accountability would be great! oh….a monthly organizational challenge would be fun to participate in!)
Hey … I need ideas on how to organize our bathroom
Need guidance on what paper to throw away and what to file. I keep everything for fear that I will need it. I am out of room. Help!
I’d like to organize my daughter’s toys and my couponing stockpile while in a small apartment.
I would like to organize my office space. Well, the entire house actually. 🙂
Hi Katherine,
I love your videos. I need help in organizing my shoes.
My entry door opens directly on to my living room. I follow no shoe in the house.
Can you please give me some tips.
Thanks,
Divya
Hello! Love your tips and tricks! I would love to declutter everything ( too much?) and organize my basement/ craft area.
I’d love to know a good way to organise my tea towels in my kitchen drawer. They just always get messed up.
I really need to get my paperwork, old records/documents, tax info., etc. organized! I just have paper piling up in a filing box & it’s not really working for me. It would also be helpful if you happen to have any tips for storing & organizing media like books/CDs/DVDs that you can share with us! Thanks so much for the effort you put into your videos & for doing nice giveaways & things for your subscribers–your work is much appreciated :)
hi I’m new to your blog, but have been watching you on YouTube. I say this all the time I am trying to organize MY LIFE. Lol I need to organize my linen closet, my room, closets, holiday décor laundry room ,EVERYTHING! MY pantry the kitchen EVERYTHING! I am such an unorganized person and #1 goal is to become more organized and STAY organized. I also coupon and I have stopped doing that just to mainly focus on organizing. once I become organized I will go back to couponing so that way I could stay organized there’s no way I could save money with coupons without being organized. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
thank you.
I would love to organize my bedroom! Thanks!
Hi Kathyrn! I would like to organize my beauty/makeup items–getting a little out of control^_^
I would love to organize my garage. It is such a mess. I don’t know if I could organize it with Dollar Tree merchandise. If not I can always find another place to organize in my house.
Thank you for doing this give away. I am so excited that you opened this up to outside US residents. March 2014 I started thinking about how I can better organize my home on a small budget. I came across one of your videos and I’ve been hooked ever since . Dollar tree is relatively new in Canada but I had been to a couple of stores in the Us. My mom introduced me to DT and she is in love with the store. By watching your videos I actually had an idea of what to look for and try out ideas . So I’m trying to organize my whole condo and am slowly getting there . My next big project is my laundry room / storage room. I have tried to organize there b4 by buying DT bins/baskets but the set up is not working out. I need to take out the shelves and start by putting shelves on the wall as well as on the ground . This space is not very big do I have to be creative ! Thank you for all that you do! I have used many of your ideas through out my home and am constantly try to make ideas work for me . I recently lost a pet and did not have any motivation to be here on YouTube. But I think I’m ready now! Thanks again,
I would love some help in organizing children’s toys. I have 4 children and want to save some things for the younger ones to play with. I also would love to see some organizing tips on everyday clutter, especially stuff that would normally go in a junk drawer. I have such a difficult time making decisions on where is the best place for things like that.
Thank you for all your tips!!!!! Love your youtube videos. I do weekly meal plans and I would like to see some organization in the fridge where you pull a bin for each day of the week meal and everything you need to make the meal is there.
Hi Kathryn! I would like to organize scrapbooking stuff such as paper, cutting mats, punches, Crop A Dile tool and eyelets, slicers, scissors, pens, stamps, stamp pads, ribbon, washi tapes and other embellishments, unused and ready albums, card kits, etc. Thank you in advance!
Love your channel, your sweet spirit. Your desire to be a good steward of your home inspires me!
Oh! Spaced out… I’d like to organize my home classroom, my sewing space, my paper crafting area, kid art supplies (what to keep, what to use and toss/replace as needed)
I need to better organize my craft items and eBay stock.
I am a new teacher in my district and I would love to see videos about school and classroom organization tips.
Love your videos! Any help and tips on organizing art supplies and crafts would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the great work!
I’m so excited for this blog! Looking forward to your help. I’m a single mom and just has my first baby. We share a room and nothing here is set up for functionality! I’m having a hard time moving around the room, I have no where to put my clothes. I’d use the gift card to help make my life in this room easier. Also I’d love for you to make a post about this and bathroom space for baby.
I really need to organise my craft supplies.
I would like tips on organizing my couponing stockpile. Specially, smaller items such as travel size items, cosmetics, odd shaped items. I have a mix of plastics drawers, baskets, shelves. Its a mess… lol
You have been a huge inspiration to me and want to thank you for all your videos. I would like to see a craft area organization when you have very little space for craft things type of video. Thank you! 🙂
I need to get real about shoe organization and letting go of the ones I’m not wearing.
Hi Kathryn! Thanks for all of your helpful videos. I really enjoy them and have learned a great deal from them. My problem is the garage. I live in the south so we really don’t need to park our car in the garage so it’s used for storage. I call mine my “she cave”. I would love to organize my canning supplies, my stockpile from couponing and prepping, craft and hobby supplies in order to create enough room for a sitting area with a work table. I know you can help with this! Thanks and Happy New Year!
I love watching your videos! You are so real and down to earth. Being a teacher and a mommy myself, I feel like we are so similar. I desperately need to re-organize my whole house. I have two little ones and I cannot use the “I just had a baby excuse” any longer! Thanks for the giveaway, lady. You rock! 🙂
Love your channel. I need help organizing a cabinet full of plastic containers! Especially the lids. Thanks!
Hi, I would really like to organize my tubberware cabinet.
Thank you so much for your videos. I have only recently found you on Youtube and I really cannot Thank you enough. Its fantastic that your tips are so affordable and easy. I have 4 girls ranging from 14 years old to 13 weeks old! I really need help on how to organise in their bedrooms as Christmas has sent a lot of new presents and I’m struggling with bits everywhere!!! Could you also do some videos on creating storage from recycled materials that we may all have around the house? I’m looking forward to getting organised with you in 2015. From Fay from Bury in England x
I live in one room with a walk in closet . I have a bookcase with food and dvds that and my closet are organized but nothing else is.
Juggling work, home, and school I have set a goal for 2015 to become more organized in all aspects of my busy life. I teach Pre-K and will graduate from WCU in the fall of 2016 with my Bachelors. I have felt so overwhelmed and disorganized at times that I have questioned myself several times about going back to school at 40. Whew! Love how practical and simple you make organizing. Looking forward to more videos! 🙂
Hi Kathryn,
Love your blog and vids so much. I am looking to organize the lids of my cooking pots. I have tried racks and bins and no matter what I can never find the right lid for the pot. Plus they are all over the cabinet. I just can’t get the family to put them away (self included) the right way on the rack. Can you come up with a great idea for lid storage, if you can I would love to see it. Best wishes for the new blog and a happy, healthy, organized New Year to you and yours.
Lysa
I am going to get my office organized!!
Your You Tube rocks because you do everything very reasonable and make it look good without the guilt. Wishlist for the new year….Leftovers and how to use them up. how to organize coupons in store. How to not spend too much time on computer. Soaps…bath soap, dish soap, laundry soap, cleaning soap which do ou use the most. Gifts for students..did you make any. Did you gift to neighbors, hairdresser, postman, other teachers then what. How do you organize gift cards, gift card balances. Freezer organization. After Christmas deals…what did you get. Car organization. What was you favorite unique Christmas gift received..from all the years.
Need to organize paper i.e. bills, receipts, important documents, receipes, etc.
I adore a clean, organized home. I’d love to hear your thoughts on how to keep the master bedroom from becoming the catch all?!
I want to organize my pantry and the playroom!
interested in learning how to organize pots and pans
I want to reorganize my bedroom! Also I want some tips to organize all the school work.. Which includes learning and making homework..! Thank you!
I am in desperate need of organization for my whole house. My main focus as of now is my Master and my children’s bedroom. I have 2 girls that share a room. So many dolls, books, clothes etc….We have a full house, total of 9 at the moment, any tips on organization for multiple families under one roof? Thanks!
I love you blog, excitement, and great ideas. I would really like to organize my photos and my garage this year. Thank you for a chance to win!!
i would love to see craft organization we don’t have much but looking for ideas specifically with those 3 drawer rolly type cart things. Also looking for ideas to store DVDs without the case the binders are just not working well for us and not looking to spend a crazy amount of money and don’t have the wall space for a shelf.
Hello Kathryn! Huge fan! Came across your YouTube channel a few months ago and have been hooked ever since! We live in a very old house with very small (some rooms don’t even have one..) closets. (Been here 4 years) Plus a bathroom and laundry room off the kitchen with no storage so I have made several a few trips to Dollar Tree already and started with the laundry room/linen area! 3 kids (ages 10 and 11 plus a soon to be 2 year old) 2 older ones in sports and a busy working husband.. I went part time last year to start working on these things and life has only gotten more hectic! 😉 Love all your tips! Looking forward to this series as I have SOOOOO much work to do here!
I want to organize all the PAPER in my home! It’s overwhelming.
I love your videos and have become a Dollar Tree “junkie”. You have turned me on to the 5 Minute Teeth Whitener, dishwasher tabs, Nail Polish Stickers, “space bags”, and a variety of hanging hooks. Need some more ideas as to organizing my granddaughter’s craft corner with Dollar Tree items. Looking forward to 2015 tips and tricks!
I would love to know how to make a small craft section in a tiny hall closet. I need space for my scrapbooking and stamping supplies.
I have a hobby room with music, crafts, sewing machine… That needs some organizational help.
Organizing Simply is for me! I need help organizing the home office. Ideas to keep mail, magazines, catalogs organized. Craft room needs organized and kitchen area.
We just had our third baby so we are actually going to be going through each room and organizing everything. Especially our children’s rooms and toys.
Congrats, Michelle! 🙂 Room by room is totally the way to go. Blessings!
I’m looking forward to your videos in 2015! I could use help with more tips and videos organizing the bathroom and where and how to organize my stock pile of all the products I have from couponing, I just have massive piles of stuff…. Ugh!
Thanks for all you do!
Way to go on your couponing stock-pile! I have a bathroom video coming up 🙂
I enjoy watching your YouTube videos! This year I want to focus on organizing our garage.
Thanks, Winn! 🙂
I need to organize my life. I watch your videos religiously . I have used you ideas for my refrigerator. They work great. My problem is getting started. I have a craft room and pantry that need a major overhaul. I just can’t seem to get started. I look at the areas and get overwhelmed. Help
Thanks for watching, Penny and I’m so glad you are loving your fridge! I have a pantry video coming up! You’ve got this, girl:)
Looking for new ways to organize my inventory for my vintage etsy shop. I also want to organize my freezer this year. Things get stuck at the bottom of my chest freezer for way too long!!!
Looking to organize my inventory for my vintage etsy shop and this year I want to organize my freezer. Things get stuck at the bottom of my chest freezer for way too long!!!
Hey, Erika! I actually made a video about this. Hope it helps you! xo, Kathryn http://youtu.be/X_neaTXMR-8
I would love organization tips for a hall storage closet located underneath the stairs. It has a weird slant and I have a hard time keeping it de-cluttered. I tend to just throw things in there that I have no other place for. I was planning on getting some plastic storage drawers and totes but not too sure where to start. Also, I need ideas for board game and holiday gift wrap storage. Thanks so much for all you do!!
A few months ago, inspired by you and some DT purchases I organized our downstairs bathroom closet, which actually kind of functions more as a utility closet because really only guests use it and we don’t have to store much “bathroom stuff” there. I’m happy to report that it is still mostly organized. My next big project is the extra closet in the laundry room. I’m hoping to have a couple shelves to organize games and puzzles and most of the remaining shelves to organize my “crafty” stuff (I expect that to be the hardest to organize and probably to become disorganized again rather quickly). The closet has a large area in the bottom that I would like to store the stroller and our outside toys in since the closet is right next to our back door and we don’t have a ton of garage space for that kind of thing. Any tips for doing multiple venues in one space would be great. Thanks!
I am hooked on your videos and LOVE the information that you share. I would love to get some ideas on organizing a classroom, I am not a teacher but I have 3 developmentally delayed children that are elementary school age and I need some ideas for storing all of our homework supplies and games. example: Learning games, ( I make what I call homework folders out of manilla file folders so the kids that I am not currently working one on one with can still be learning and practicing) and items like markers, pencils, activity books etc. We work hard every day but I feel if I had more organization it would make life easier. Thanks so much!
I am on a mission this year to get my ENTIRE house organized!! One room, one space at a time! My biggest challenges will be my home office and sewing spaces 🙂 can’t wait for you, 2015!!!
Thank you for sharing your ideas, tips, & creativity with us. You are an inspiration year ’round. I follow you on YouTube. I’m looking forward to a New Yr and New ideas, especially of re-thinking & re-organizing my double-car garage/laundry room. I’m also a mom, 2 young adults & one teen. My babies have grown up so fast. Happy New Yr.!
I would love to organize my storage room.
Thank you so much for offering us such an exciting giveaway. I go to Dollar Tree every week. It’s one of my all time favorite stores. I would like to work on organizing my craft supplies and my acrylic paints and glitters, since I have so many.
I love Dollar Tree! That store has some great organizing aids.
Just a few week’s back I got really cute containers to organize my make-up vanity, it
looks great. Hope I win.
I would like ideas on making my office/guest room a pretty functional space.
I’m trying to get my kitchen cabinets organized this year. They are a mess!
Congratulations on your new project, Kathryn!! What an amazing idea!! I am so excited about it and can’t wait to watch every single video. You know I am your fan #1 here in Spain……
As I recently moved in, every organizing idea is welcome, specially for closets, my new home office, how to keep my jewellery organized and also the junk rooms.
New year, new home and new target for me…….hopefully fulfilled with your help.
Many thanks for all you do!
Gracias, Ester! Congrats on the new place 🙂
I actually thought of de-cluttering and organizing this January myself.
I would love to see how you store off season clothes and decor, desk and binder organization and stockpiling if you have any of that.
Also how do you organize your pictures.
Love your channel. Happy New Years to you!!
I would love to see how you organize off season clothes and decor, desk and binder organization including planning, and stockpiling if you do any of that.
I love you channel. Happy New Years to you and your adorable little family.
I want to organize all my kitchen cabinets and junk drawers its a total mess love your blog and videos happy new year
I really want to organize PAPERS!! Coupons for stores like BB&B, dining out, and local grocery stores. Also, desk organization. I need to figure out homes for things and how to keep them put where they belong!
Hi Kathryn
Thank you in advance for this very nice opportunity! I would be interested in organizing my little place in general. I live in a Studio apartment and although I have a kitchen and bathroom separate from the main living center, there isn’t much storage space. TYFS, Cynthia
I need to organize my closet spaces, children’s toys and digital photos. I’m looking forward to this series.
Can’t wait to watch these vlogs! I need some serous closet organizing skills! Front hall closets, my master bedroom closets and my main kitchen extra cleaning stuff closet. Thanks!
LOVE the new blog! It’s so pretty!!!!! 🙂
I can’t wait to see your new videos. I bet they will be awesome, as always! 🙂
My best friend helped me kickstart my whole house cleaning and organizing efforts a week before Christmas. Best present ever! I owe her big time!
Right now, I’d say my biggest problem areas are my kitchen cabinets, my son’s room, and my closets. The hall closet is fine now–I just cleaned it out and reorganized it a few days ago–but I still need to tackle the coat closet and my bedroom closets. I’ve designated one of them as my “office” closet, and it needs A LOT of work! Some new storage solutions are definitely in order–and this time, they need to be the right ones. (Long story.)
I don’t do Twitter or Instagram, but I’ll be happy to spread the word about you on my own blog! Good luck to everyone who has entered! 🙂
Hello I love to watch your videos! I also LOVE the Dollar Store and Salvation Army.
What I want to organize in all of my foil, parchment paper, saran wraps etc. I have to many really but I do use them all! Right now they are in a clear box but that just stays a mess, any ideas?! Thanks!
I have such a hard time organizing and storing my 7 month old’s toys!
I would like to organize my craft room!
I have a craft video coming, although I don’t have a whole room to dedicate to it. So jealous of those that do!
Hi Kathryn! Thanks so much for your vids! They have helped and inspired me so much! I want to organize my homeschool classroom better! I homeschool my sons, 2nd and 1st/kinder, and my toddler (
Thanks, Marissa! I’m so glad <3
We are going through the whole house & getting organized to start off the New Year! The bedrooms are on the top of the list!
I need to organize everything….I have hoarding tendencies.
Sheets and linen closet, sheets take up so much room and so do big bath towels there has to be a better way then what I am doing!
Store all your sheet sets in one pillowcase. This will help, as I explain here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WlTrg-axY
I like to organize my pantry and refrigerator
I would like to organize the garage and my photo collections on my computer. Thanks!
I would like to know how to organize sweaters!
I just became a new mom and am working on making the transition in my house to include systems for keeping my growing family organized now that there’s a new baby who demands a lot of our time and energy. I’m hoping for simple systems that are easy to maintain, increase efficiency to maximize time with our little one, and help us prioritize our never-ending to-do list. I love your videos! Thank you for putting them out there.
Congrats on baby! What a beautiful time 🙂 Those early months are tough, and you will find your balance. As you say it’s all about simple and finding your priorities. Blessings!
I would love some ideas on organizing the shoes in my front hall closet. I’m constantly tidying it up, but with my husband’s gigantic shoes combined with my two children’s shoes, it’s a frustrating, never-ending task.
As I sit in my living room, there is pretty much nothing that won’t help me. I don’t have kids, but I bet I can use some “kids” tips for myself, too!
I would like to organize my baby’s room. Wish we had the room to do the big bins like you did! Hopefully we can do that when we get out of this tiny apartment we are living in while we look for a house. But in the mean time I’d like to do something better than what we have now.
Hi Kathryn! Thank you so much for all your sooooo helpful videos, because of you I got more organized this year! You’re such a blessing! As a stay at home mom of two little girls I so appreciate your help!
I would like to organize my storage area.
God bless you!
God bless, Marina! Thanks for watching!
With 6 kids, it’s really important to get organized! I love your videos! I would love to find some tips on organizing our shoes and jackets at the entrance and also some tips for my office !
I live in a small home–under 600 sq. feet–with no built-in closets, so all organization ideas are appreciated! I also teach Kindergarten and occasionally tutor, so my big challenge is creating and maintaining a comfortable, efficient all-in-one office space for my home office needs and work-I-bring-home needs. (And, if possible, casual crafting/sewing needs.) Thanks for your ideas, your enthusiasm, and sharing your life!
Thanks, Sarah!
I need help with everything. We are moving into our first house and I am lost. I will be watching your videos all week , LOL!!
I’ve so enjoyed your Youtube channel because of the relevant content and speedy delivery. Help with organizing my digital photos would be much appreciated.
I would definitely like to organize my office/spare bedroom…..it REALLY needs it! Thanks! 🙂
Im working on my backpack!! I need a biggger one and i tend to like to carry the smallest things like stain remover, mini stapler, hand wipes,lotion, glasses, make up. I love your oorganization tips!! Please help!! Also my planner!! I tend to write in pen then i scribble everything out and it ends up being a huge mess with writing everywhere!!!
I love all of your videos! I would LOVE some ideas on organizing photos (old and new)! That is the one area in my home that I can’t seem to organize. I hope you make a video on this or respond to my comment 🙂
I have seen your video on organizing family photos but you didn’t mention anything about your printed photos.
I currently homeschool my little ones, and am preparing to become a licensed child care provider so I could use all the organization tips in the world right now! Not to mention the space I’m working with is not the most spacious.
I’m trying to organize a Scrapbook area in my Dining Room with two bookcases I just bought.
I’d love to organize my “catch all” closet (where I house our games, crafts, scrapbooking, outdoor toys, etc. – closet).
Hi Kathryn. I feel so blessed to have found your videos on youtube. Such an inspiration, thanks a bunch! We homeschool and we recently added boy / girl twins to our beautiful collection of children (7 altogether now ages 9-3 mo.) I am looking to organize my school room. Text books, story books, construction paper, markers, glue, stickers, globe, posters have all kind of haphazardly found a place there. Being a teacher yourself I thought you might have a few fabulous ideas up your sleeve. Thanks for your beautiful smile and positive attitude. In Christ’s love, Heidi
I plan to organise my spare bedroom into a dressing room with all my makeup etc
Thanks for all the great ideas and inspiration over the years. I need to organize everything but the main area is my living room. I would also like to create a craft area.
I’m a teenage ready to organize, I have been watching your videos for a long time now and your son is so cute. The space I like to organize is my kitchen.
I just live your videos!! Thank you for all your work to give great ideas.
I’m in a wheelchair so the organizining will be to help my daughter in our house. Laundry room needs lots of help. It is small with no storage areas available so a bit challenged there.
We are starting to do some prepping for future times. Dehydrating and using foodsaver.
Will be organizing that soon too.
Thank you,
Lisa
Hi really enjoy your videos and would absolutely love to have a thrift store like dollar treedown here in South Africa
I would like some ideas on organising diaper bags for daily use and how to organise small spaces as we live In a flat
Thanks
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I want to organize my craft area & my office space!!!
I’d love to organize everything, but at least the office and Master Bedroom. Thx!!
I am getting ready to better organize my craftroom which is a disaster!!
need to organize my closet loll
I love your videos! I want to get my whole house organized in 2015, but I’ll settle for my home office, bathroom, and pantry for now!!!
I’m so happy you now have a blog site! Love your videos! I need to organize my entire house…but am focusing on my office and my two boys’ bedrooms (10 and 14). Would love to see some preteen/teen room organization videos. Thanks and Happy New Year
I just subscribed to your YouTube as jalapenomama.
And I want to start organizing the kitchen cupboards.
thank you
I plan on reorganizing my garage. Yuk Yuk but it must be done!! 🙂
Happy New Year! Blessings!
I love sitting down in the morning and watch your videos as I drink my coffee it really inspires me to face the day and get something done (its like the cheerful clean version of hoarders without the hoarding if that makes sense) I have gotten so much organized over the last year but now I’m facing down the laundry room and its not a small feet with six people and a purrbox living in the house.
I want to set up a pantry in my hall closet. I also want to create my own baking mixes that are healthier than store bought. I will be making them gluten free and free of GMOs so I don’t need recipes, but suggestions for the types of convenience products that are easy to make into ready to use mixes would be great.
I want to organize my husbands magic room! It looks like a magic warehouse exploded!! I enjoy watching your videos.
I have 2 areas I plan to organize in the month of January. The first area will be my attic. I need to go through plastic bins, donate, throw away and consolidate items. After I pack up my Christmas items it seems like the perfect time to do that. The second place is in my basement under my stairs. It’s blocked by a big shelving unit that blocks the entrance. I’ll need to take the stuff off the shelf, move the shelf and then go through things that have been stored there for YEARS! I’m not excited for that project! If you have any helpful hints on either organizational project, I’d be very gratefulness! Thank you and HAPPY NEW YEAR!,,
I found your web site this past summer; it is has been overflowing with an abundance of ideas! I look forward to the email link that I receive letting me know you have uploaded a new video! Thank you for all your efforts to keep my unorganized ways to a minimum! I would like to organize my upstairs – craft room /storage and my laundry-room. Oh what am I saying- most of my house!!!! needs some form of organization!!! Thanks again I have enjoyed your ideas!
I love videos on, how to keep my home-office running smooth, my desk gets piles of paper, they grow like bunnies ;-). Plus anything on moving would be good, I will probably be moving this year after 20 years in one home. What’s the best way to do this?
April
Need to organize my craft closet , I make wreaths and have so much stuff I use to make them .
My office is begging for some organization!
Love your YouTube videos, Kathryn!! I made the DIY cleaning wipes and I’m hooked! I’m on my 3rd batch! I like using different smells of Dawn each time to change them up. 😉 They are perfect for my kitchen countertops, dining room table and are PERFECT in the bathrooms for quick wipe downs every morning. I even use them to clean my mirrors and they leave them streak free!! Brilliant!!
I have learned so much from your videos! I enjoy your shopping trips and letting us know what kinds of storage ideas and bargains are available. Upcoming video requests: meal planning & remembering what foods you have in freezer, best way to organize leftovers in the freezer, storage of store bought “bags” of frozen foods and once organized suggestions for family members to keep it organized, home desk (papers), kitchen junk drawer and pantry. I look forward to your upcoming video series. Thanks!
This year i want to organize my hallway closet that place is just stuffed with clothes shoes towels all sorts of stuff i really want to tidy it up a bit because if we need something from there its hard to find what we need and its so frustrating so thank you so much for doing this giveaway it’ll help alot to whoever wins. 🙂
I want to organize the basement storage. We have so much stuff since we were both married before and I don’t want to lose any of those precious items from the kids years growing up. However the longer I wait the more stuff we accumulate. HELP!
Love your videos! I need to organize my craftroom. So many items and have no clue where to start!
I have followed your you tube videos for about 6 months. I have found inspiration to better myself and my boys living spaces from your perky video ideas. I simply love the way you show examples of how you have made them work for you in your home. I am a frequent Dollar Tree and mostly Goodwill goer. This year we will be selling our house and I am not sure what I will need exactly. All of it at this point sounds good though. One space I have a hard time organizing is my dresser drawers and my closet at times. Thanks for the ideas and the time you take to show others!
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Great videos!
Could you show your ideas on small nooks such as under a staircase space for additional storage?
Thanks for all your creative tips – I always enjoy your videos, your talent and enthusiasm Kathryn
I am really wanting to organize my makeup room/guest room, right now that room looks like it needs Jesus lol.
Love your videos. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
I’m organizing EVERYTHING. I actually started the last week in 2014. I’m organizing closets, bathrooms, bedrooms, outside storage room, kitchen cabinets, refrigerator/freezer, washroom, and car. Whew! I’m tired just thinking about it LOL 🙂
I have entered the giveaway already and I am trying to organize better my kitchen, desk space, and my walk-in closet because we only have one closet in the apartment so we have everything stuffed in there.
Thanks for all the great videos. If you have a hot spot at your house? The place where the purses or school bags go when you walk in the door. By the way, my favorite video is the magnet on the side of the fridge where is store a bucket that holds the marker and blank sticker to label the food. Great idea.
Love your video and blog. My biggest need is organizing all of my bits of paper.
When I need to prioritize tasks and goals, I grab a piece of paper and start todo lists, often, on bits of paper or index cards. (At least index cards are all one size.) I rarely manage to finish the lists, so the scraps don’t get thrown away, and eventually they get covered up by other papers on my desktop. After they’re stale, I seem to not even SEE them. So I start new lists. Every now and then I clear out the stacks and find a variety of old lists.
I’ve seen and read of a lot of different methods thru the years to get my todo lists organized, both online and on paper, and have used a lot of methods. But so far I’ve not managed to stick with one system that works, other than in small compartments of my life.
I am trying to organize anything and everything. Just did my first real Dollar Tree haul and now organize up the fridge, freezer, and linen closet. Also got a great cart at Michaels for my cleaning stuff.
Super eager to organize my laundry room and pantry since my systems never seem to work it makes me nuts.
p.s. I suffer from “Out of Sight, Out of Mind.” And from Clutter just becoming part of the background, part of the furniture — I don’t even SEE it after awhile.
Hi
I love all your videos, they are for the way real people live.
I would love to know how to get my garage organized.
our pantry!
I have a under the stairs storage room but it is also where we have to put our coats. no matter how much we try is always becomes a mess
[ Google plus will not work with my computer or Youtube won’t let me comment. I saw someone ask about Legos driving them crazy… maybe you can pass this on. ]
Having lived through the Lego Wars for some years, as we called it, I want to pass on what worked for me and friends at those ages. Maybe you could pass it on to her or include it as an idea if you do a video on organizing Legos and Playmobile and building-type toys.
Bring the Legos into their rooms if possible, not in public areas of the house where they are spread all over to be walked on or vacuumed up, and where you HAVE to nag them to have them picked up to clean or use the spaces for other purposes.
Larger shallow Underbed bins for the Legos allow the kid to open one bin, dig through and access a subset of the parts — enough for variety — and are easily picked up and slid back under the bed. We had bins for each type of building toy. Several were full of Legos.
[ We did not try to keep them sorted by the Legos set. Eventually, if they want to sell them, they’re most often sold by volume. What we saw was that as soon as they followed the instructions and assembled the set, most of them immediately started modifying the piece to make some wonderful new creation, using parts from other sets. To me, this is part of the beauty of Legos. But your kid may be different – one of his friends was a collector. ]
We didn’t see my kid or any friends dump the bins out on the floor; it was easy to dig through the parts and find what they need. And easy to get the parts back into the big flat bins with just a dustpan. Pickup made easy meant no fighting about having to do it.
A small 2×2 Lego table with a small bin in the bedroom provided a work center for my kid and his friends, and kept almost all the Legos up off the floor all the time. It had a small bucket for Legos in the center, and a work surface of Legos.
But another friend did not have a table — the kids played out on the floor or bed, and that was more to pick up, but the underbed bins still made it relatively easy for kids to do. Most pieces stayed inside the bins.
[I guess this is assuming there are not a whole bunch of other toys, clothes and chaos built up out on the bedroom or playroom floor that goes beyond Legos. Kids need ROOM to play. My son was always so grateful when I helped him organize his room, so he had room to play, so the room fit his developmental needs. I am NOT born organized by any means, and my parents never taught me to declutter. But he learned to declutter and organize by working peacefully alongside me, without upsets, and not too long for a kid’s tolerance at one time. (We set the timer and he knew when it was over it was over for that session.) Today, he organizes and declutters voluntarily. In fact, if we had a behaviour problem, where he just didn’t seem able to follow limits, many times it was associated with the environment being just wrong for his new needs to grow and work. Reorganizing his space fixed the problems. ]
I’ve seen huge “Legos pits” built into playrooms. What I found was that a much smaller subset of pieces is really all they work with at any time for almost all creative building. The underbed bins provide secondary storage. Every now and then, the Legos can be swapped out. Or frequently, the kids would slide an underbed bin out, take the top off, dig through and grab certain pieces, but they just did not dump the shallow bins out and all over the floor. (Other kids may behave differently.)
Legos always enabled hours of quiet independent creative play, and I think they helped develop excellent fine motor skills, and visual discernment and pattern-matching. (I hope that is what it’s called. I am not a trained teacher but have taught courses using Legos at our homeschool co-op, and noticed that the kids who did not play with Legos at home due to a parent worrying about younger children with small parts – those kids struggled with being able to match up the visual picture of a part with the selection of Legos a lot more than other kids.)
Some kids, especially the collectors like shelves for displaying their creations. Some will be satisfied with taking and posting a photograph of some creations.
Some kids will be taking their creations around the house with them, and setting them down, but this will at least be a smaller subset. Add a daily step to the routines at a standard time, “Lego Cop,” or “Garage the Legos,” or some other name, to get all the Legos back to their home.
HTH. No more Lego Wars!
I have a room that is full of toys, books, stationary, etc. Its becoming a junk room so to speak. I hope to organise n transform it to a place where the children can do their homework n to study.