Home Organizing for Beginners: Organizing solutions for moms that are at the beginning of their home organizing journey.

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is Tidying Up. Do you have little piles of stuff scattered here and there around your home? Maybe a bit of clean clothes sitting on a chair because you’ve just not had time to put them away. Or the mail from yesterday is sitting on the counter because you just haven’t gotten to it yet. The dirty dishes are sitting in the sink or on the counter. Kids dirty socks laying on the floor in the living room. Used tissues sitting on the coffee table. An empty Gatorade bottle on the fireplace mantle. Ugh. Right? Time to carve out an hour or two to get it all cleaned up. Or is there another solution? As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of making time to clean everything up all at once you can utilize the 2 minute rule throughout the day. In this episode I’ll share with you what the 2 minute rule is, why it works and how to implement it today, right this minute… or 2 minutes! www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com

Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is LAUNDRY. I have these unwritten rules in my head about laundry. Do you too? Sort them by color. Wash darks on cold, whites on hot, use bleach, wash towels together, wash jeans together. ugh! Do I really need to do all these things? I mean, before kids it was easier because all the dirty clothes were just mine or mine and my husbands. After kids the whole laundry task changed. As they got bigger it changed more, right. Definitely more loads to get done today than there was 10 years ago! As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of feeling like laundry is a dreadful never ending chore, you can take a step back and put measures in place to effectively get it done so that you truly feel that you have it under control going forward. That’s what you want, right? I know you’re smart enough to realize that the task of doing laundry won’t ever just disappear. It’s like dishes, as long as everyone in the house is eating there will inevitably be dishes to wash. As long as everyone in the house doesn’t run around naked there will be clothes to wash! But it doesn’t have to be something you dread. It can just be a chore that happens as needed for your current season of life or current level of chaos in your home. In this episode I’ll share the best 2 options you have, why these options will work for you and how to get started this week. www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of allowing spring cleaning to seem like a black mark on a great time of year, you can find a new way to get started. In this episode I’ll share with you what areas you should start with, why it’s important to do spring cleaning and how to get started today. Free Spring Cleaning Checklist.

In each episode I share a microscopic home organizing topic. That just means it’s something you can implement today, from start to finish, if you so choose. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: What you can do when you don’t know how to get organized. As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of feeling like you should already know how to get organized or forcing yourself to figure it out on your own you can ask questions and get answers. In this episode which is super short so you can take action right away I’ll share with you where you can go to ask questions about home organizing, why it’s ok to ask questions and the steps you can take today to get started. Let’s start with where you can go to ask all your home organizing questions. I’ve created an online community - not in Facebook because we all know Facebook is just a time suck with oodles of distractions. Instead it’s found within my website so that you can stay focused when you’re working on your home organizing project. This community is where you can go to ask me anything about home organizing and I’ll answer! I used to feel like there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t be organized “like everyone else.” I was too embarrassed to ask questions of my friends that always seemed to have it so together. You don't have to keep struggling. Maybe you’re not sure where to get started. Or maybe you have a room specific question like, what is the best type of container to store my makeup in? Whatever your question is, come to this community and ask it. You don’t have to forge through this all by yourself. You are definitely not the only one who struggles to get and stay organized! So, the steps to ask your questions are quick and painless. Go to http://www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com Click the button on the top of the website and sign up for an account -no payment info is needed. Create your profile - basically add your name and picture if you like. Ask your questions! I like to wrap up every episode with a single point to remember. This point is meant to help you remember what you’ve learned today so that you can make progress and build momentum in your home organizing journey. Today’s point to remember is this: Ask questions. Get answers. Today. Thanks so much and have a great day! I hope to meet you in the free community!

This is it. This is the final strategy that will help get you off the hamster wheel of home organizing. That’s where you organize the same spaces over and over and over again. If you’ve not listened to the episodes detailing out the other 7 strategies you’ll certainly want to go back and listen to all of them. It can be right now before the rest of this episode or after you’re done here. All 8 strategies work together because they’re all created with sustainability in mind. If you’re not able to keep your organized spaces organized what’s the point, right? It feels like such a waste of time. As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of stopping your home organizing project after everything has been physically done you can finish by putting measures in place to SUSTAIN it. In this episode I’ll share with you what it means to SUSTAIN your work, why it’s important and how to make it happen. Let’s dive deep into your home organizing journey together. Sign up for The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization at www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com . Join me next week as we dive into what you can do when you don’t know how to get organized.

How many times have you stopped at a store, saw some really nice baskets or bins and all of sudden had motivation to get organized. Literally this is where I think we all start. My daughter, without any prior discussion, asked if we could buy these specific baskets so that, and I quote, “I can organize my bedroom, mom.” How is it that buying baskets or bins will result in an organized bedroom? When we actually stop and think about it we realize that the baskets and bins would look nice but we have no idea if they fit the space or what we would even store in them. And this is why so many of us wind up on the hamster wheel of home organizing where we have to organize the same spaces over and over and over again. The strategy we’ll talk about today is the strategy that most people think of when they think of getting organized, but with a twist. As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can shift your focus when you ORGANIZE. In this episode I’ll share with you what it means to organize, why it’s important and how to organize so that you can set yourself up for success and ultimately get off the hamster wheel of home organizing. You can dive deeper into organizing by focusing on the function with me by your side. Sign up for The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization at www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com . Join me next week as we dive into strategy 8, Sustain. This is the final strategy in this series about How to get organized and stay organized. Your Home Organizing Educator, Tammy

Does the thought of going through all your stuff in order to get organized make you feel anxious and overwhelmed? You are not alone. What I’ve learned over time and in talking with a lot of moms is that getting started is HARD because we think we have to get rid of a lot of our stuff in order to get organized and we’re just not ready until we are ready. Up until a couple of years ago I had every piece of artwork that my kids ever made stashed away in tons of boxes and bins shoved here, there and everywhere! And truth be told, I still have all the daily reports from when they were in day care! I kept them all! They’re all 3 hole punched and stored in binders tucked away in my closet. Minimalism seems to be all the rage right now. They say, just get rid of your stuff. It’s so much easier to keep your home tidy and organized. While that is a true statement, it is in fact easier to be organized if you have less stuff, it’s not a requirement. You can be organized and keep your stuff. Isn’t that a relief?! As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can start with SORT your stuff. In this episode I’ll share with you what it means to SORT your stuff, why you need to and how to make it happen. You can dive deeper into sorting through your stuff with me by your side. Sign up for The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization at www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com. Join me next week as we dive into strategy 7, ORGANIZE. Your Home Organizing Educator, Tammy

Have you found yourself watching home organizing shows on Netflix? I love watching them, but I typically walk away with this vision in my head of what an organized home is supposed to be - perfection. Wonderful decor, all matching, fitting in the allotted spaces. The work they do on those shows is great, but I’ve found for myself and my clients, it ultimately demotivates most moms. It’s just not realistic to think that our homes will look like what they do on those shows. I mean it can, but then we can’t live life in our homes. We can’t play with our kids, we can’t let them paint in our kitchens, or build forts in our living rooms. Real life dictates that our homes will look lived in because they are! As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of looking to others on TV shows, Pinterest or other social platforms for motivation, you can take pictures of your own home organizing journey. In this episode I’ll share with you what pictures to take, why you need to do so and how to manage them in order to optimize their effect. You can dive deeper into taking and managing your home organizing pictures with me by your side. Sign up for The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization at www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com. Join me next week as we dive into strategy 6, Sort. I share what sorting is, why you sort your stuff and how to do so effectively. Your Home Organizing Educator, Tammy

How can I get organized when I’m so busy? This is a very valid concern and one that I had too. I used to carve out entire weekends or take days off of work just so that I could get organized. The problem with this is that since I felt like I had carved out all this time I could get a ton done. And it was inevitable that I would bite off more than I could chew. I’d get to the end of the day or weekend and find that I wasn’t finished. Or worse yet, I would get stuck part way through or feel completely overwhelmed at the size of the task and simply give up! I would never finish. If carving out huge blocks of time in your schedule to get organized is NOT something that will work for you, then right sizing your project will be a game changer! As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of carving out huge blocks of time where you feel pressured to get it all done, you can right size your projects throughout your entire home organizing journey. In this episode I’ll share with you what right sizing means, why you must do so and how to figure out the right size project to start with. You can dive deeper into right sizing your first home organizing project with me by your side. Sign up for The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization at www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com. Join me next week as we dive into strategy 5, Pictures. I share what pictures to take, why to take them and how you can manage them to optimize their effect on your home organizing journey. Your Home Organizing Educator, Tammy

I’m going to guess this has happened to you before, and I only know because it has happened to me too! You finally feel motivated to get organized. You have the whole weekend planned, you’re going to start with your office, then do the junk drawer in the kitchen. You know it’s a stretch goal, but you totally feel up for it. Saturday morning hits, you get up, get your cup of coffee and dive in starting with your desk. It’s cluttered, stuff piled up all over it so you start there. You start with a pile of paperwork, you see some old bills and think oh no! Did I pay those? You take a look online and find that they are paid. OK, still feeling motivated you dive back into the rest of the piles. There are some of the books your kids used to read, you page through them and feel a pang of sadness. You brush that to the side along with the books. Now you open a drawer, you know the top of the desk isn’t done, but that all needs a lot of hard decisions, the drawers should be easier. But they’re not. You forgot that the last time you got organized you shoved a bunch of old paperwork inside. UGH! Maybe the junk drawer will be easier and you need more coffee. It’s noon and nothing is done yet! You make lunch, sit down to watch a show and pretty much never return to the project. This happens because making decisions is HARD. And it’s ok. If making the decision of what to do with your kids books was easy, they wouldn’t be piled on your desk, right? As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can put together a Decision Strategy. In this episode I’ll share with you what a Decision Strategy is, why you need one and what to consider to create your own. You can dive deeper into devising your decision strategy with me by your side. Sign up for The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization. Your Home Organizing Educator, Tammy

How do I get organized and stay organized? This is a question I hear a lot and it’s a question I used to ask myself too. I was so tired of organizing the same spaces over and over again. It happened often enough for me to name the cycle the hamster wheel of home organizing. We have a set of lockers in our entryway coming in from the garage. I lost count on how many times I got this space organized only to have it be a complete disaster again within the week. Oh my gosh I would get so stinking mad! I’d just feel defeated. It’s the worst because that’s the space I’d walk into as soon as I got home from work. And if you listened to last week's episode you’d know that in creating your home organizing vision you consider how you want to feel when you walk into your home or a space. I want to feel peace, calm and joy. Not frustration, anger and defeat! As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In order to make that happen you’ll have to do something different than you’ve done before or what society tells us. Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can put together a Home Organizing Plan. In this episode I’ll share with you what a home organizing plan is, why you need one and how to create it. I would recommend printing out the free download that goes along with this podcast so that you can easily put together your Home Organizing Plan. Go to home organizing for beginners . com and sign up. I’ll put the link in the show notes. You actually get a lot more than just this single download, you get access to all the downloads for all 8 strategies. They’re all in the free program called The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization. Your Home Organizing Educator, Tammy

I felt fear and frustration everyday when I’d walk into my home. It was always a mess. I’d get motivated to do something, set aside an entire weekend to finally get organized only to wind up irritated with being interrupted by my kids. I’d yell, they’d cry. Ugh. It was an ugly situation! One I’m not proud to share, but I know now that I’m not alone in this cycle. I just wanted to walk into my home after a long day at work and feel peace, calm and joy. I seriously wish I’d had that back then. I don’t want you to miss out on the precious time with your kids. I want you to find that peace, calm and joy before it’s too late! To do that, you’ll have to do something different than what you’ve done before or what we are constantly told by society. Everything I teach starts with sustainability in mind. You don’t want to spend your time organizing the same spaces over and over again, right? Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can learn where to really start - with a Home Organizing Vision. In this episode I’ll share with you what a home organizing vision is, why you need one and how to craft a useful one. Free Resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization Your Home Organizing Educator, Tammy

As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right? In today’s episode I’ll share with you the 8 strategies you need to employ in order to stay off that hamster wheel of home organizing forever. Then over the next 8 weeks we’ll dive deeper into each strategy. We’ll identify what the problems are when you don’t utilize the strategy and we’ll lay out the steps you can follow to implement each one. If you want access to all of these strategies today, you can get them for free in the online course The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization. You get video training on each of the 8 strategies and documents to use that will help you implement each one. Again, if you’re ready to get going you can access all of what I’ll be sharing over the next 8 weeks today for free. Free Resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization Thanks so much! Tammy

So today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: The best way to get rid of the stuff you declutter. Welcome to Home Organizing for Beginners. In each episode I share a microscopic home organizing topic. That just means it’s something you can implement today, from start to finish, if you so choose. Do you find that as you’re living daily life you sometimes come across something and you think, I should get rid of this? Like, we don’t use this anymore. Something like clothes or toys that your kids have outgrown? Maybe even some of your own clothing that you don’t like or wear anymore. Basically you’re ready to declutter some items from your home. The simplest way I’ve found to get stuff out of my home that I no longer want or use is to donate it. Today I’ll share the problems you’re running into that’s preventing you from donating your stuff. I’ll share what the solution is, why it works and how you can implement it today. To learn your options to continue your home organizing journey with me by your side go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com Thanks so much and have a great day! I hope we have the opportunity to get to know each other better.

You need a way to organize your closet so that you can find the clothes you want to wear when you want to wear them. Do you find yourself running out of time as you search for something to wear every morning? Maybe you have a favorite shirt or pants, but you know you shouldn’t wear them everyday even if you’re a stay at home mom. I knew I needed to get my closet under control when I found that I didn’t even use it anymore. It was full of clothes but it was way easier to throw the clothes that I would wear on the bench in my bathroom and get dressed from there. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: How to organize your closet so you can find the clothes you want to wear. In this episode I’ll share the problems you’re seeing with a chaotic and unorganized closet. I’ll share what the solution is, why it works and how you can implement it today if you so choose. Thanks so much! Tammy Free resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization

As someone who’s just starting their home organizing journey or feels like they need a fresh start you may think getting organized just isn’t possible for you. Maybe you’ve tried but it just never seems to work. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: You actually CAN get started, get organized and stay organized. Home organization must BEGIN WITH THE BASICS by following these 3 steps. Are you ready to begin with the basics so that you can reach your vision of an organized home? To have the feeling that all your things have a place? To open your home to unexpected guests without fear of what they may be thinking? To be able to find what you need when you need it? In the online course Home Organizing for Beginners, you’ll begin with the basics and implement each of these steps so you can get there, so you can have the organized home you envision. I'll be with you every step of the way. The first 5 people to purchase pay $47 by using the coupon code SOS. That’s a savings of more than 50% off the normal price of only $97. To learn more go to https://homeorganizingforbeginners.com/ Thanks so much and have a great day! Tammy

This is the time of year when we have some natural motivation to get organized, but what happens when you lose motivation? As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey, losing your motivation and not knowing how to get it back can be devastating. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is STAYING MOTIVATED DURING YOUR HOME ORGANIZING JOURNEY. Do you find yourself making progress, feeling good about organizing your closet, desk or junk drawer only to have it all brought to a screeching halt by interruptions? Do you feel like getting organized is just really hard (IT IS!) and you get distracted easily? Today you'll learn the best way to get yourself motivated again. It involves pictures, but not what you've heard before! To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com. Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better. Tammy

There’s this thing that often has to be done BEFORE you can even start thinking about organizing your home. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is GETTING YOUR FAMILY TO HELP CLEAN… so you can get started organizing. Cleaning is a thorn in your side, right? It’s time consuming and everyone in the house just messes it up almost instantly. It is so incredibly frustrating! Does it seem like nobody sees what needs to be done? Or worse yet it feels like nobody cares! Are you feeling like you have to do it all on your own? These feelings can make you angry and bitter with those you love most. (it did for me!) Today you’ll learn there’s one primary thing that needs to happen so that you can get your family to help clean. This will put you in the position of managing your home instead of doing all the things yourself so that you can get started, get organized and ultimately stay organized. To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com. Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better. Tammy Email me at: tammy3schmidt@gmail.com

Getting started can be the hardest part of getting organized. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is GETTING STARTED. You want to get organized and stay organized but if you aren’t able to effectively get started it’ll never happen. There’s a reason you struggle to get started in your home organizing journey. Overwhelm. Do you get mixed messages from friends, family and even Google on where you should start organizing? Do you want everything to be perfect? So much so that you’re paralyzed and can’t even start? Maybe making difficult decisions makes you cringe. Today you’ll learn a better way to think about getting started on your home organizing journey. One that will help you move past the overwhelm anytime it sets in so that you can move forward, make progress, build momentum and implement solutions that will last. To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com. Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better. Tammy

SO. MANY. TOYS. Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is KIDS’ TOYS. Do the kids' toys seem like litter strewn all over your home? How many times have you tiptoed into your kids room only to step on a Lego? Can you eat at the dinner table or are there too many crayons and coloring books sitting on it? For someone that is just beginning their home organizing journey or feels like they are, dealing with SO MANY TOYS may feel impossible. In today’s episode we tackle this problem in a way that will help you implement a toy organizing solution today… WITH the help of your kids! To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here. Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better. Tammy