My latest obsession is....home organizing!!! I think I have always thought organizing was fun to some degree, I was always a straight A student and would organize my notebooks and folders and studies etc. I also like organizing my makeup, I love having options so I have a lot of makeup (its fun being a girly-girl). Daniel also seems to like to organize,but I think he does it more to have order rather than for the mere fun of it. I have entered a new arena with home organizing, now that I actually have my own home to organize (well sorta, we live in Dan's parents condo). My love of organizing was awakened this weekend when I went to a stake relief society enrichment activity where we had a class on home organization by a woman who goes into people's homes and organizes it as her profession. She introduced me to all sorts of things I had never thought about before and it was exciting to think of all the time I could save by implementing some of her suggestions. One of my favorite products she uses in her home is called a "cansolidator", see picture above, which keeps your canned items neat and rotates so that the oldest can is always in the front, how cool is that! After the class I immediately went to Big lots and got some Tupperware containers, some space saver bags (you vacuum out the air and it consolidates space), shoe holder, and other organizers including a 3 dollar mini consolidator (it holds 10 cans); thus, I experienced the satisfaction of getting organized AND saving money--that is what I call a good day.
She also had some good tips on ways to teach your kids to be organized from a young age--one idea I really liked is to have them put their toys in different plastic containers and when they are too young to read you put a picture of the item on the front (for example if it holds their barbies you have a picture of a Barbie taped to the front). I don't have kids yet but I figure I need to prepare and learn as much as I can now because once I do have kids the time for preparation is over--in fact from what I have seen time becomes your most valuable commodity as a parent.
Yesterday I organized all my bathroom stuff and our closet, today I created a recycling bin seperate from our trash, which can also earn us a little extra money and help the environment, and organized recipes I like from magazines and off the internet into a nice notebook with sheet protectors. Tomorrow....well, who know what I will do next. If anyone is interested in some other things the professional organizer recommends just let me know because I can not write even half the tips here.
