Organize and Thrive: The Just Organized by Taya Blog
Creating an Outdoor Shabby Chic Room
Shabby chic has been a popular style of home decor since the mid Nineteen Eighties. Over thirty years later, it is still as popular as ever, but the look does not have to be limited to the interior of your home. In addition, in some homes shabby chic just does not...
A Professional Organizer’s Favorite Life Organization Apps Revealed
In my professional life, I help people organize more than just their homes, I help them learn to better organize their lives as well, as the two concepts really do go together. And, like so many other things in life these days, I'm finding that there are an increasing...
A Different Kind of Country Decor – Swedish Country Home Decor
Part of the fun - and sometimes the frustration too - of changing your home decor scheme is figuring out a decor style you want to at least loosely follow. Country style interiors have been popular for decades, but sometimes all that rustic, darker decor is just too...
Top Tips For Organizing Kids Craft Supplies
With schools out - albeit prematurely due to the COVID-19 related restrictions we have all been placed under - the task of keeping kids amused and yet still engaged in productive activities has become a priority a little earlier in the year than it might usually do....
D.I.Y Natural Air Fresheners For a Better Smelling Home
Everyone likes to keep their home smelling as fresh and as pleasant as possible. Just one look at the housewares aisle at your local grocery store will tell you that. There you will find all kinds of different products designed to make your home smell fresher. Sprays,...
Organize Your Digital Life in Your Quarantine Downtime
If you are spending more time at home right now under the stay at home guidelines in place to help combat COVID-19 you may have more time on your hands right now than you are used to. But while they provide welcome distractions occasionally you can do more than...
Take Up a New Quarantine Hobby: Kitchen Scrap Gardening
One of the oft shared pieces of advice for those finding quarantine hard right now - and let's be honest, that's most of us, at least some times - is to find a new hobby to keep us occupied. But that's hard when access to stores is restricted and venturing too far...
Things to Declutter During Quarantine – And What To Keep
As the majority of us are spending much more time in our homes in quarantine - instead of rushing in and out of them - right now any lack of organization - and clutter - is becoming (painfully) obvious. These things usually occur because we are too busy to take too...
14 Essential Self-Care Tips to Get You Through Quarantine
These aren't easy times. Many of us are staying at home - lots of us are working, taking care of the family and still finding that the news is all becoming a little too much to watch more than a few times a day and some of your social media 'friends' are possibly...
Deep Cleaning in the Time of COVID-19 – Printable Spring Cleaning Checklist Included
A lot of us may be spring cleaning our homes soon. Because it is spring (it began last month). And for many of we're home more than ever right now. But spring cleaning has a whole extra dimension in the spring of COVID-19. It's no longer just a matter of sweeping,...
Bored in COVID 19 Lockdown? Declutter Now, Before You Sell Your Home
Moving to a new home is a new opportunity in so many ways. New rooms to decorate, new neighbors to meet, basically a new life to begin. Going into that new life loaded down with too much stuff and clutter is something most people realize they don’t want to do, so they...
How to Make a Stuffed Animal Bean Bag Chair
Stuffed animals, kids love them, parents (secretly) hate them. They create clutter, they take up too much space and kids often have so many that the vast majority of them get ignored. Kids however, even older ones, love stuffed animals, and getting them to part with...
How to Organize a Home Office Desk
Lots of people are finding themselves very unexpectedly working from home right now. And if you are not used to that, chances are that the home office desk you've put - or are putting together - is not the most streamlined or organized space right now. Or the biggest...
30+ Ways To Organize Fun For The Whole Family While Social Distancing at Home
Trying to think of ways to keep everyone in the family amused and as happy as possible while you spend time at home social distancing? Here are some ways you can organize some fun at home, and for the most part you should have the supplies you need right at home (so...
Best to do list Apps For New Homeworkers
Maybe some people are using their extra time at home as people are urged to stay there to help combat the spread of COVID19 to take a mini vacation. But, for many of us, it's business as usual (almost), except we are not going into the office right now, we are working...
