Category: Organization

DIY Upcycled Garage Shelving

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Shelves

After two years of saying I was going to put up some shelves, I’ve finally done it and am so happy with the results!  These shelves were in my master closet when I moved.  After trying a few things,  I couldn’t find any functional use for them so I removed them.  You can see the wall the shelves came from in my post about patching the holes the shelves left behind.

Since then, I’ve put a shoe rack in place of the shelves and I hung my  necklaces about eye level above the shoe rack.

Before putting up the shelves, I bought a few extra mounting brackets and screws to replace ones that were damaged during removal.  Other than the couple of dollars spent to get the extra parts, the shelves are 100% up-cycled.

I chose to mount the shelves right by my door to the house for convenience.  I also bought bins from the dollar store to hold my painting supplies, gardening tools, and other yard and outdoor supplies.  The four shelves  fill up the wall perfectly and I even have enough room to fit my lawn mower underneath.

What are some things you’ve up-cycled?

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How to Complete Your To-Do List in 5 Steps

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How to Complete Your To-Do List

How to Complete Your To-Do List in 5 Steps

We all get overwhelmed by out to-do lists every now and then.  The tasks keep piling up and there seems to be less time each day.  When this happens, I, like many others fall into the bad habit of dreading the to-do list so much that I end up spending more time thinking about all of the tasks I have to do than it would take to just do the tasks.

For this month, I’ve decided that I’m going to finish my to-do list, or get pretty close.

Step 1:  Write out tasks
Dishes
Laundry
Clean the bathroom
Vacuum Upstairs
Vacuum the Stairs
Scrub litter box
Clean kitchen counters/floors
Hose down front of house
Wash car
Fix/sand walls and corners
Repaint baseboards
Repaint sanded walls
Reconcile Bank Accounts
Sweep and Hose Garage
Dust the tops of fans
Dust low surfaces
Put away desk supplies in office
Patch holes in kitchen

Step 2: Reorganize the tasks into two columns –  One column for tasks that take under 15 minutes to complete, and one for tasks that take over 15 minutes to complete.

Tasks < 15 minutes  
Dishes
Clean the bathroom
Hose down front of house
Repaint sanded walls
Sweep and Hose Garage
Dust the tops of fans
Put away desk supplies in office
Dust low surfaces		 Tasks > 15 minutes
Laundry
Scrub litter box
Vacuum the whole house
Clean kitchen counters/floors
Wash car
Fix/sand walls, corners, holes
Repaint baseboards
Reconcile Bank Accounts

Step 3:  Organize each column from most important to least important and combining similar items. 

Tasks < 15 minutes     
Dishes
Clean the bathroom
Put away desk supplies in office
Dust the tops of fans
Hose down front of house
Repaint sanded walls
Dust low surfaces
Sweep and Hose Garage		 Tasks > 15 minutes
Laundry
Scrub litter box
Vacuum the Whole House
Clean kitchen counters/floors
Wash car
Fix/sand walls, corners, holes
Repaint baseboards
Reconcile Bank Accounts

Step 4: Each day, complete the top item from each column or do a few similar items (such as all painting in one day)

Ex:
Day 1: Dishes & Laundry
Day 2: Clean the bathroom and scrub the litter box
Day 3: Put away desk supplies in office & Vacuum the house

Step 5 – Be Flexible with your to-do list

There are always things that come up that either need to be added to the to-do list or can take away time from completing items on the to-do list.  The most important thing is to be flexible and willing to make adjustments to the to-do list when necessary.  If you know you won’t be able to do anything off of the to-do list, plan ahead and do a few extra tasks one day.  As long as you are consistently making progress, the to-do list will no longer run your life!

 

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$2 Makeup Organization

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$2 Makeup Organization
For years, my makeup has been all together in one drawer.  Recently, I’ve become fed up with always having to dig through all of the make-up to find what I’m looking for and decided it was time for a change.
I researched multiple make-up organizing techniques to and found a lot of cute ideas, all that required needing more storage space and quite a bit of money.
Since neither of those were feasible, I took a trip to the dollar store and for $2, I was able to get some storage bins that fit well inside my drawer. Now, I’ve got all of my face makeup in the front, brushes in one section, and eye makeup in the others by shape and size.
Now I ask, why did it take me so long to do this?  It’s so simple and makes my morning routine so much easier!

 

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