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Comments (1)We did that earlier this year. I caught a Black Friday in January sale on TVs and bought a new one so we'd have one in the kitchen for Super Bowl. After game day, we ended up doing a little game of musical TV's around in the house. Well, what a dusty, cable-spaghetti mess - it's amazing how dirty the areas around TVs become. My DVDs are pretty organized - I have a great cabinet for them. My CD's, however, are another story. So my March Challenge will be to work on the CD's. Here is a link that might be useful: My DVD Cabinet...See MoreLet's see if we can make a list of 100 favorite Organizing Tips..
Comments (117)I’ve only just discovered this board but what a great thread! Building on Raye Smith’s suggestion, go round your house with your smartphone or camera. Take an overall picture of each room in each direction, then close ups of any smaller stuff, closet and drawer contents, identifying marks/serial/models numbers on appliances/TVs/other electronics, etc, etc. You can do this over several days if necessary. When you are done, add labels to each photo indicating what it’s of (Tommy’s room, master closet, jewellery box, etc) and upload the pictures to the cloud or copy to a flash drive and store in your safe/safe deposit box. Hopefully, you will never need it but in case you ever need to make an insurance claim, you won’t have to rely on memory. If you can manage it, update the pictures annually....See MoreYour ideas for organizing cold weather gear?
Comments (7)Hi there Lori, I had a similar challenge and my hall closet is small! It had become so difficult to find items in that when I finally got it fixed I found I had lots of duplicates. This is what works for me: I have a small hall closet. I first assigned my closet a "role" I decided it would be used for the following: - Coats (only those we use regularly - special item coats like ski jackets went to the storage room) - Hats, gloves, scarves, - Sunscreen - umbrellas - outdoor workout gear (pedometer etc) - Lint brushes (we have a child of the furry variety too) - Emergency response kit (ie natural disaster) - Dog leash - Few outdoor toy items (bubbles, chalk, etc) - "to go center: dry cleaning, items for repair, small bag for donations." I bought a hanging shoe rack (the kind with cubbies) and labeled each 'shelf' within the rack. My DH and I each have our own cubby on the top, followed by lint brushes, sunscreen, pedometer and umbrellas), etc etc and then I use the lower cubbies for our 3 year old. When people get home I make them put their item in the respective cubby. This has worked so wonderfully because we all know where our stuff is and the closet stays clean. I hope you get the idea of what I'm saying and it works for you. If it would be helpful I can take a picture as well. Good luck! Laurie P.S. The hanging shoe/sweater racks work wonders elsewhere too. I also have one in our spare bedroom that holds our Iron, buttons, mending supplies, plug in air freshners, and spare shampoo and other toiletries for guest baskets. I have one in my 3 year old son's room too and use it to hang his shoes (so he can reach and put them back,) as well as pants....See MoreOrganizing your daylilies : easy suggestion
Comments (23)Jean, 1-Make sure you defragment your hard drive. This is the #1 problem I find with slow computers. This will make it easy: download smart defrag. When you install it, be sure to uncheck on any screen extras it wants to install, and at the end of the installation check "give up my gift". Open Smart Defrag, click the automatically box to defragment your C drive. Tell it to Analyze the hard drive. You can then click the X in the corner and that will minimize it to the bottom right corner of your computer and you can ignore it. It will take a while the first time; after that it runs in the background when the computer is on and you aren't doing anything on it. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/iobit_smartdefrag.html 2-Download and install CCleaner. It gets rid of tons of fragments that clog your computer. When it is installed, open it and click Analyze. The first time you use it it may take 15 minutes or more to run. It will want you to close your internet browser. When it is done searching, it will give to an option to delete all the junk. Do that.Run it every couple of months. Between these 2 programs you should see a big difference. There are other things that could be done, but I can't really explain them to you this way. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ccleaner_slim.html Brad...See More- 9 years ago
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