Hey frie
nds – I have been MIA for a while. I had two books due in two months, and now, because I’ve turned in the books and have nothing to do, I have Jury Duty in the morning at 8:30.
So as much as I would like to be back to blogging, this is just a stop by. But a stop by with gifts.
The book I turned in yesterday is THE GET YOURSELF ORGANIZED PROJECT. (And how cute is that cover.) One of the tips I use in the book (and in my own house,) is to use the plastic clothes separators that are used in stores on clothes racks to separate sizes. I use them to section of general areas of my closet. It makes putting away my clothes easier and keeps things in orders.
I want to give away ten sets of five separators! Just tell me the one area of your house where no one is allowed to look (that junk drawer, junk room, your son’s room, etc.) and I will put you in the drawing to win the set. Drawing will take place this Friday at 8:00 PM CA time. Fun!
BTW Yours will be blank so you can put whatever you want on it. (Dresses, sweaters, clown suits…)
I have about 6 various sized plastic tote boxes stored in my sons bedroom closet filled with pics, frames (new and old), baby books some complete some not, old letters, kids gradeschoo art, drawings from family members from prisons, greeting cards from people, original 1st love letters from my kids when in gradeschool that I found tucked in their backpacks, and tons of scrap booking supplies, stickers, buttons, andpaints…..such beautiful memories shoved in boxes where they fit tightly in my sons closet until “i can get to it all” mind you…its been years.
LOL – I would have to say our garage. Honestly, it has become a catch-all for everything, including relatives’ things. I’ve even got a few boxes in there from before we got married… in 2000! Yikes. I have to REALLY like you to let you go into our garage.
Thank goodness I’ve started a ‘garage sale’ pile which is quickly becoming a mountain
My darkest secret – sheesh – what a question as could be one of many…… BUT I would narrow it down to fear.
Fear of the unknow and I spent so much of my life living in fear. NO MORE – PTL!
the one place i dont let anyone look is the family room. I keep my house guest ready most of the time (with lots of help from family) but the family room is their space. I dont go up there but to watch the 1 hour a week of NCIS. Since i dont see it i dont nag about it.
At the moment, my HOUSE! Just moved three months ago. The scariest though us the garage. Loved the husband project!
I forgot to beg you to promise that you’ll let those of us who don’t win know where to buy them!
Clown suits! That sure triggers some happy memories! My Master closet and my office closet will have to arm wrestle for the title. I have huge piles in both that could use some attention. The rest of the house has it’s challenges too, depending on the day or week. Congratulations on finishing your book! Well Done!
How about the upstairs in general? !! I throw all kinds of stuff up the stairs when people come over. Downstairs looks nice….but don’t go upstairs!!! Most of my friends have NEVER seen the upstairs 🙂
CANT WAIT for your book! I would say usually my room…between the dirty clothes and piles of clean ones, it is usually a disaster area! Sometimes the playroom/office looks like a tornado went through it too, but that happens with two toddlers!
THe junk room. The rest of hte house can be spotless ,but the room at the end of the hall belongs on hoaders :o)
OK, this is embarrassing, but if you come over you can’t look inside the oven!! I’ve been known to hide dirty dishes when I ran out of time to clean before someone came over!
Looking forward to the book!! I also want to see you speak again…..you are great!
Um…if you are allowed INTO my house in the first place, I would ask that you not go upstairs. My son is a creative type, which means that he parts with NOTHING and has creations everywhere. My daughter has OCD and is a hoarder. I try to clean their stuff out when they are not looking. My bedroom is where my projects, laundry, etc. end up. So basically, my entire 2nd floor!!
The hall closet is a menagerie of games, vacuum parts, jackets, feather dusters, and probably a frat party for moths.
Looking forward to the new book. So proud of you!
Well…you can not come upstairs…at all! It starts in the hallway and continues into my office/sewing room, and then moves into the attached attic. Do not enter, and certainly, do not look! Can’t wait for the new book!
The master bedroom. It is the first thing you see when you enter our house through the garage door. There are so many problems with this I could spit. From an organizational standpoint, my place of refuge resembles more of a mud room than the romantic retreat it should be. Small shopping bags, mail, crap people find in their pants pockets clutter my dresser. We’re the first exit off the clean laundry highway for baskets (clean or dirty) trying to make it up or down floors, but cant seem to finish the trek. Clean laundry gets left because the kids’ rooms would swallow it whole and burp it on to the floor only to be mingled with the fermenting items already there. The worst part, though, is this: I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve entered the master bath with the bedroom door shut, only to emerge “au natural” in a hopeful dash to the closet. But casting a quick sideways glance I discover my door has since been opened (and why wouldn’t it since my bedroom houses practically everything one might be looking for) and when timed just right there is a clear view through from the street, through the garage and right into the unholies of unholies. Sigh. Is there a chapter in your book on the necessity of a mud room?
Uh, yeah, that would be the master bathroom shower. Ick.
And the garage, but I don’t claim any responsibility for that one. That’s HIS room.
Love the new cover, Kathi! Well done!
With two preschoolers and a new baby due at the end of September, I rarely get a chance to organize my special “quiet space,” otherwise known as my master bedroom. We did a total overhaul on teu foreclosure home we purchased a year and a half ago. Therefore, this means we constantly have people dropping by to see the AWESOME job my contractor husband and father-in-law did on the project. I try to hide all the clutter in my closet when unexpected guests drop by.
I have piling issues. I file them away randomly and then they reappear. The office area is a no go zone. Lots of piles of books, works in progress, notes, ideas, etc.
Definitely our master bedroom lacks the attention the rest of the house gets.
Mine would be our room and the junk room 🙁 I know right a whole room, we were remodeling and everything from all the other rooms in the house that was put in that room.
I do love the idea with the clothes and If I don’ win it is something I will do anyways Thanks for the helpful tip and I CANNOT for the book 🙂
Can’t wait to read this book, girl! Congrats!!!
My laundry room! Hands down.
My two middle schoolers have rooms that are HORRIFYING. One is on the third floor, so we don’t see it, but the other one (my daughter’s) has two closets in it, and I have claimed one of them (because my husband uses both the small closets in our room – the joys of 1890’s Victorian architecture…), so I can’t avoid the fright in that room…
Also, I still have a couple junk drawers in the kitchen, and the snack cupboard (which aforementioned tweens daily ransack) is a little scary, as well….
Gah! We call it our “room of good intentions”. It was a workout room for a minute, a baby room that hasn’t come to be thus far, a reading room, but most of all its just a catch-all for a bunch of c-r-u-d! Unfortunately you have to walk *through* this room to get to the office. So much for good intentions!
hmmm….I will go with under my bathroom sink and the storage area under the breakfast bar–basically anywhere “under!”
my sewing closet!! it in no way resembles my unmentionables closet.
Our office closet is off limits. The trouble with moving 3 times in 3 years is your life becomes boxes. It’s time for a change and can’t wait for you book.
Oh, that would definitely be my art/craft/office closet!!!!! And the pantry is a close 2nd. When stuff is falling to the floor, my husband best describes it as “the closet is barfing!!!”
Can’t wait to read your new book? When do you expect it out?
have a great week!
My master bathroom is a disaster. I seriously can’t remember the last time I cleaned it. So gross! and the drawers in there? Yikes!
No one can look in any of the closets, garage, junk drawers, or office area…having 2 little boys (and a husband) doesn’t help. Ok, fine, I guess I could use a little help, too!
Looking forward to the new book. You’ll totally have to come speak at our MOPS about this!
Danielle
PS: Where do you get those blank clothes divider thingies?
My closet with my shoes in it. They are all piled into one VERY HIGH pile. People always gasp when hey see it, so I try to keep it closed. Makes people wonder how many pairs of shoes I really have instead of removing all the doubt by letting them peek! 🙂
My office is a complete disaster – boxes of stuff we really need to get rid of (old college papers and books, and let’s just say my husband and I are both celebrating our 20th high reunion this year). We remodeled 5 years ago and the office was an addition; unfortunately it’s become a dumping ground. My husband and I have vowed to get this house organized this year, so I’m looking forward to your new book!
My junk drawer. Often the office is a mess, too. Papers and other stuff tend to pile up quickly. 🙁
Congratulations on finishing another book Kathi! I can’t wait to read this one! 🙂
There two rooms at my home: 1. is Mom Jansen’s room…after she passed away we cleaned out most of her things, then it turned into a storage room….Downstairs was Dad Jansen’s room…and the same thing happened to his room but worst…you can only open the door get yourself in and maybe shut the door if your lucky…..Dorothea
I have a nasty junk drawer that I continually reorganize only to have my kids destroy. I honestly don’t know what lives in there these days-ok, actually, I do which is why it’s off limits! 🙂
Congrats on the book(s). Woot-Woot!
Jenny Lee Sulpizio
P.S. If there was a clown suit in my closet, I would FREAK out! I hate clowns…did you ever see Stephen King’s, “IT?” Yick. Instant heebie jeebies.
No one can look in my bedroom. Although I’d love for it to be my “quiet place of rest”, it ends up being the “last place anyone will look or hang out place”. Since my little one’s aren’t allowed to play in there I currently have everything we tore out of the play room in our room, as we convert it to the nursery for our new baby due in 5 weeks! BTW I need your book NOW before this kid is born!
LOVE ir and cant wait for the book!
I have 3 tween/teens…. you can look in ONE of their rooms. The other two are off limits to EVERYONE!
ps… I dont own a clown suit…. is that a mandatory category?