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    Home » Easy DIY » Cleaning & Organizing

    January 8, 2013 | By Jami

    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:

    • Simple Organizing Tips
    • Organizing with Trays
    • Using Vintage Suitcases
    • Keep Track of Frozen Foods with a Chalkboard Freezer Door

    Papers:

    • A Unique Idea for Organizing Card-Making & Craft Supplies
    • Organizing Recipes (plus a funny video from Brian: Hard-Hitting Recipe Organization Interview)
    • Gardening: How to Plan and Organize Paperwork/Records

    Clothes & Seasonal:

    • Burlap Jewelry Organizer
    • Adopt a Simple Laundry System
    • Easy Gift-Wrap System

    Rooms:

    • 13 Ways to Organize a Work/Craft/Office Space with Vintage Items
    • Organize Kitchen Spices
    • Fabric Closet Organizing

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

    About Jami

    Since 2009 Jami Boys has been helping readers live a simple homemade life through whole food recipes, doable gardening, and easy DIY projects on An Oregon Cottage. From baking bread, to creating a floor from paper, to growing and preserving food, Jami shares the easiest ways to get things done. She's been featured in Cottages and Bungalows, Old House Journal, and First for Women magazines as well as numerous sites like Good Housekeeping, Huffington Post, and Apartment Therapy.

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