9 Organizing Ideas To Organize Holiday Photos
We love looking back at photos of our family Christmas memories—how about you? Some years my five daughters would “pose” for pictures taken from the back showing their long hair. The bonus of these pictures was we didn’t have to wait for makeup to be applied. (If you have girls you know what I mean). Other years they would sit on the couch and hold their feet in the air to show their cute Christmas socks. Here are some organizing ideas on organizing Christmas photos: 1. Get your photo album now—don’t wait until after Christmas. 2. Start sending those photos taken with your digital camera now, no need to wait until a roll is full. 3. When you get your photos back as you are looking at them, throw out any you don’t really like. It is okay to get rid of pictures that make someone look ugly or it is blurry or you just hate it. Don’t keep a photo that you will gag every time you see it! This will cut down on the amount of organizing and journaling you will have to do later. And it saves space in your photo album. 4. When you get the photos developed take a few minutes and put them in the album. By doing it a little at a time it will seem to go faster. 5. If you don’t have time to organize them within a couple of days, label them with an acid free pen made especially for labeling photos. You can also separate them by activity and put them in labeled envelopes so when you are ready to put them in an album part of the work is done. 6. The albums where you slip in the photos are great as it is fast to slip the photos in and they hold the memories in a dust free environment. The photos are all together so you can enjoy them now and not have boxes stored somewhere in your home. You can embellish the pages with stickers and other mementos. 7. The albums where you slip in the photos have glue between the sections for 4″ X 6″ photos. To put a larger picture or memento on a page simply loosen the glue and slip the photo in taking up the two spaces. Or with glue dots or double stick tape put the photo over the plastic. 8. As well as putting photos in your child’s book, make a Christmas photo album with the entire family. 9. If you have boxes of past photos don’t overload yourself with the project of getting them all done right away. Stop feeling guilty about having them in boxes instead of albums!! Work your way back through the years when you have the time, or when it is not holiday time and you can schedule a time to put them in albums. Start with the most recent photos first and work your way back through the years. It is fun to look back at the albums that include photos of what each family member is doing on Christmas Eve, decorations in our home, concerts attended, and places we volunteered to mention a few. When the girls come home at Christmas that is a favorite thing they do—they get out the albums from the past 15 years and pour over them, laughing and remembering. It doesn’t have to be a hassle to create family holiday memories. Marilyn’s Bio Marilyn is a professional organizer who works with women and seniors in clearing clutter and providing organizing tips. Clearing clutter helps those she works with to have less stress in their lives and feel more joy in living. Marilyn invites you to visit her website http://www.marilynbohn.com where you can find organizing solutions. You will find fun stories and free organizing tips in her blogs, articles and videos.
4 Organizing Tips To Make Room For Everything In Your Home
Messy rooms, disorganized closets and jumbled junk drawers (I think of them as resource drawers) add unneeded hassle to our already hectic days and lives. Organizing our possessions, treasures, and ’stuff’ does give us peace of mind and a feeling that we can accomplish other things in our lives. It also helps us in time management as we can find what we need faster without having to search when we need something. Can you use some organizing tips to find room for your “stuff”? Do you ever feel you just don’t have enough space to put things? If you had a bigger place you would be organized? Even small spaces and homes can be organized. Here are some organizing tips of places to use for storage. Under the bed: If the bed is low, buy (for around $10.00) raisers that raise the bed up about 8 inches. Or you can use cinder blocks and raise it about 12 inches. Then under the bed plastic storage boxes made for this purpose are perfect. Some come on wheels. In the closet: Plastic boxes can hold out of season clothes and be placed on the top shelf. If the closet is deep they can be stored on the floor. A doublet, which is a two tiered rod, can maximize space in a closet. Many organizing stores carry these, including The Container Store. Use tie racks that can also be used to hang jewelry or scarves. Shoe racks come in a variety of models. Over the door, on the floor, and hanging racks. Under the sink: There are racks that fit around pipes or removable shelves that can hold twice the amount of things to go under the sink. On the other side of the sink the kitchen trash bin can be placed. When it isn’t in plain sight it reduces both visual and floor space clutter. Donating useful but no longer needed items; getting rid of unwanted things and organizing what you do need to keep makes our personal spaces free of clutter. Our homes are then welcoming havens instead of uninviting places that make us want to stay away. Marilyn’s Bio Marilyn is a professional organizer who works with women and seniors in clearing clutter and providing organizing tips. Clearing clutter helps those she works with to have less stress in their lives and feel more joy in living. Marilyn invites you to visit her website http://www.marilynbohn.com where you can find organizing solutions. You will find fun stories and free organizing tips in her blogs, articles and videos.
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