Organizing Tips, Ideas & Inspiration

Get organizing tips, ideas, and inspiration for getting your paperwork, rooms, and crafts in order using traditional, and some nontraditional, ways.

A roundup of the best Organizing Tips and Ideas from An Oregon Cottage

The weeks after Christmas is a prime time for organizing – and it’s not just because that’s what all the media outlets are telling us. I’ve always felt that need to purge, clean, and set things straight after the abundance of the fall and winter holidays – do you, too? It seems like needing to put away the Christmas decorations is the push that’s needed to clear the decks of stuff that’s gathered through the last months.

Most of the time after Christmas I want to get a few areas organized that typically grow, ahem, through the year: my recipes-to-try pile and my craft-fabric closet. I don’t think I’m alone in this perpetual cycle, am I? For some it might be clothes, for others it’s papers, but whatever it is, I think the start of a new year is a good time to do a yearly purge-and-file.

So in the spirit of the New Year’s organizing fever I’ve rounded up all the organizing articles I’ve written into one spot so that they are easier to find and are, well, for lack of a better word: organized. Here you’ll find traditional organizing ideas as well as a few unusual ones (check out the vintage suitcase idea) in four areas, general, papers, clothes and seasonal, and rooms.

Organizing Tips and Ideas

Organizing Tips & Ideas at AOC:

General Organizing:

Papers:

Clothes & Seasonal:

Rooms:

I’d love to know- do you have any organizing tips to share?

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  1. Oooooooooooooooh, I can’t wait to go through those posts! I’m like a kid in a candy store.
    We’re presently working on our son’s room, and it will feel so good to have it done.
    Thanks for sharing!