Comments on: Tackling The Clutter, Homeschool Style http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/2010/01/tackling-the-clutter-homeschool-style.html Creating Order. Simplifying Lives. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:36:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Laurel Santiago http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/2010/01/tackling-the-clutter-homeschool-style.html/comment-page-1#comment-8887 Laurel Santiago Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:33:27 +0000 http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/?p=3536#comment-8887 Clutter has always been a problem for us, too. I am tempted to go completely paperless for our homeschool. Clutter has always been a problem for us, too. I am tempted to go completely paperless for our homeschool.

]]> By: Autumn Beck http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/2010/01/tackling-the-clutter-homeschool-style.html/comment-page-1#comment-6048 Autumn Beck Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:23:25 +0000 http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/?p=3536#comment-6048 For me organization begins with controlling what comes in the house. We don't buy movies. Books we have a million but we just make sure to have plenty of bookshelves! We only have books that are theologically sound, classic fiction or family books with a Biblical focus..oh and we love good biographies. Clothes- if it isn't worn atleast once a week it gets donated. Our kids have waaay to much. I don't have an attachment problem so a lot of things get donated or chunked. My poor kids. If their art isn't immediately hung up on the "art wall" by themselves then I toss it. My biggest problem area is my kitchen counter. Argh! Makes me so mad. We are blessed to be renting a house with these amazing built in shelving units. They're massive and they have doors! Our homeschool binders go in them along with art supplies. I don't know what we'll do when we move! For me organization begins with controlling what comes in the house. We don’t buy movies. Books we have a million but we just make sure to have plenty of bookshelves! We only have books that are theologically sound, classic fiction or family books with a Biblical focus..oh and we love good biographies.

Clothes- if it isn’t worn atleast once a week it gets donated. Our kids have waaay to much. I don’t have an attachment problem so a lot of things get donated or chunked.

My poor kids. If their art isn’t immediately hung up on the “art wall” by themselves then I toss it. My biggest problem area is my kitchen counter. Argh! Makes me so mad.

We are blessed to be renting a house with these amazing built in shelving units. They’re massive and they have doors! Our homeschool binders go in them along with art supplies. I don’t know what we’ll do when we move!

]]> By: Kara http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/2010/01/tackling-the-clutter-homeschool-style.html/comment-page-1#comment-6046 Kara Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:53:09 +0000 http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/?p=3536#comment-6046 This is our first year homeschooling and the clutter has been a challenge. I love all of your ideas and we already do some of them. I'm trying to keep our homeschool stuff to one room, moslty one large bookshelf. But if we can keep on a schedule of cleaning one room everyday, things are at least manageable:) This is our first year homeschooling and the clutter has been a challenge. I love all of your ideas and we already do some of them. I’m trying to keep our homeschool stuff to one room, moslty one large bookshelf. But if we can keep on a schedule of cleaning one room everyday, things are at least manageable:)

]]> By: Robyn http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/2010/01/tackling-the-clutter-homeschool-style.html/comment-page-1#comment-6043 Robyn Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:42:48 +0000 http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/?p=3536#comment-6043 Love this post. It's so true. Our clutter just multiplies, I believe. Great tips on getting it all under control. Love this post. It’s so true. Our clutter just multiplies, I believe. Great tips on getting it all under control.

]]> By: Laura http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/2010/01/tackling-the-clutter-homeschool-style.html/comment-page-1#comment-6042 Laura Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:03:28 +0000 http://completeorganizingsolutions.com/?p=3536#comment-6042 I couldn't keep up with the growing stuff in the garage (cheap books from Goodwill, free books from our homeschooling group, groceries and some more cheap Goodwill clothes, cubscout material, you name it). My husband got tired of that ever increasing or never disappearing pile (depending on the week) and brought the stuff form the garage to the most obnoxious place: the dining table and floor around it. After fainting, I realized that it was a blessing in disguise. I didn't have to get up at 4 am and work lone in a cold garage, with the occasional visiting mouse. I felt loved again. The chair is plushy, the living room, warm. It was not pretty for a couple of weeks, but I worked at it with impetus, and the "rest" is waiting for me in the (finished) basement, next to the School Room (also messy again). I see the light, I feel the love, I know that YES! I CAN do it...and so can you. I couldn’t keep up with the growing stuff in the garage (cheap books from Goodwill, free books from our homeschooling group, groceries and some more cheap Goodwill clothes, cubscout material, you name it). My husband got tired of that ever increasing or never disappearing pile (depending on the week) and brought the stuff form the garage to the most obnoxious place: the dining table and floor around it. After fainting, I realized that it was a blessing in disguise. I didn’t have to get up at 4 am and work lone in a cold garage, with the occasional visiting mouse. I felt loved again. The chair is plushy, the living room, warm. It was not pretty for a couple of weeks, but I worked at it with impetus, and the “rest” is waiting for me in the (finished) basement, next to the School Room (also messy again). I see the light, I feel the love, I know that YES! I CAN do it…and so can you.

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