Organize and Thrive: The Just Organized by Taya Blog
Great Gift Ideas for the Disorganized People on Your List
Do you know someone who is always missing their keys, misplacing their phone, can't seem to find the remote control, is always late, and never seems to be prepared for any occasion or activity? Perhaps it's time to give them the gift that keeps on giving this year:...
Top Tips for Guest Bathroom Organization
In general, as busy people - and we're all that - we tend to neglect our guest bathrooms. Of course, we clean them and make sure everything is working properly in terms of the basic plumbing, but that is usually where we stop, especially if the guest bathroom is...
Kitchen Organization to Make Holiday Cooking Faster, Easier and Less Stressful!
The chances are good that your kitchen is a much busier place than usual right now, as so many holiday preparations call for a lot of food prep, cooking and baking. Anything you can do to make it all faster and more efficient would therefore be very welcome right? One...
How to Organize a Pet Friendly Holiday Season
The winter holiday season is a wonderful one, and certainly a great time for family, including your fur kids. The chances are, that with Thanksgiving in the books for another year your Christmas decorations will be going up soon. If you are like me, you love this part...
How To Choose the Right Live Christmas Tree
Great Christmas tree decor starts with the right Christmas tree. While there are some good-looking artificial Christmas tree options available, we think that a real live Christmas tree is hard to beat, both for its looks and that wonderful Christmas scent that no...
8 Pro Decorating Tips for Setting a Stunning Holiday Table
Trying to be the host with most this year? Want a holiday table with a ton of stunning style? Host your family and friends this holiday season with these eight smart, budget-friendly table-setting ideas and you might be surprised by how impressed they are....
Top Tips for Organized Holiday Road Travel
Are you hitting the road for Thanksgiving, or for Christmas, Hanukkah, or New Year's? If you are you are, of course, far from alone. For example, AAA predicts 54.6 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving. That's a 1.5% increase over...
6 Top Traits of Organized Party Hosts
It’s party and entertaining season, starting with Thanksgiving get togethers that are just days away all the way to Superbowl Sunday. So the chances are very good that you will be hosting at least one party style get together over the coming weeks. While every great...
20 Eye Opening Statistics About Clutter and Over Consumption
Most of us are aware of the fact that we have too much stuff. We are burdened by our clutter and feel its weight, whether we actively realize it or not. Cleaning, decluttering, hiding clutter, and trying over and over again to get organized gets old quickly. Our...
2023 Paint Colors of the Year to Inspire Your Home Decorating Plans
Often, one of the easiest ways to refresh your home decor - especially if you have limited time - is to make use of paint to refresh, revitalize and even completely change the mood in a living space. The colors that will influence our houses in the upcoming year are...
Tips for Shoe Organization + The Best Shoe Storage Products
Women are said to have an average of 20 pairs of shoes. On average, men own 12 pairs of shoes. This means that the average adult couple keeps a total of 32 pairs of shoes in their home. If there are kids, add 10 to 20 pairs more. That means more than 50 pairs of shoes...
Get Your Kitchen Organized for Thanksgiving
Taya's Top Tips for Holiday Kitchen Organization The first of the big national winter holidays is just a few weeks away (I know, this year has FLOWN by) and the chances are that you'll be doing plenty in the kitchen to prepare for it. Whether the feast is for 6 people...
How To Stop Clutter Before It Starts
A cluttered home can start to feel like an unfixable problem after a while. When you go through your house, decluttering over and over again, and you feel like you end up right back where you started, it’s SO frustrating. And really, you can declutter every day of...
5 Reasons Not to Hire a Professional Organizer
Professional organizing - and professional organizers - are bigger news than ever, mainly thanks to the Marie Kondo and The Home Edit shows on TV and all the discussion they created. And buoyed by good intentions and the amazing transformations on those shows, lots of...
How to Hygge Your Houston Home
Hygge is a Danish word that can be best described as enjoying life’s simple pleasures. It was created as a concept and lifestyle by the Danish in the 18th century and is now a fundamental part of their culture. While the word is meant to encompass the Danish way of...
