Attack of the Killer Papers

Sometimes when my kindergartener comes home and unleashes a flood of papers onto the table and absolutely refuses to throw any of them away I feel like I'm drowning.   I can feel myself get anxious as I add to the huge stack on the dining room table but know that she is proud and wants me to be proud of her as well.  To fix this dilemma I turn to Amy Volk, owner of Simplified Living LLC.  She has a great blog with loads of information on home and corporate organization.  Check out her advice for school papers by clicking HERE!  Organization is not a skill that I was born with but as a mother I find I need it more and more every day to keep my sanity.  Besides, who wouldn't want to use these cute folders?  Find advice on school papers and more at www.amyvolk.com!  Also, a great place to find storage containers and folders is The Container Store.  With a little good advice and prep I know we can live simply in no time! 

                              Have any tips you can't live without?  Please comment below! 

Clean like Martha

On Marthastewart.com I found a ton of great ideas for Spring Cleaning. The weather is warm so the windows open and the house gets a super clean. Here are some tips that helped me!

How to Clean Marble
How to care for wood furniture
How to polish a copper pot
How to clean your stainless steel

Love you Martha!!
photo from Marthastewart.com

10 Major Agers

We all know Dr. Oz by now. He made his debut on Oprah's show informing us of what our poo poo should look like. This no non sense approach to informing the public was a hit! People LOVE him and now he has his own show. I have to say, I really enjoy it. He covers many topics on each show and it really is entertaining. Especially when he tries to dance/exercise at the end, the poor man doesnt have any rhythm. I wouldn't recommend watching it everyday as I think one might get paranoid if you take it all too seriously.

That being said, I watched this episode on 10 major agers as he calls them. Products that aren't great for your body that you might not have known about and are probably in your home. Take a look, you might be surprised.

Click here to link to his site and see the list!

No Slip Rug

I bought a few rugs last year and I was expecting to spend a good chunk of money for them. I was all ready to check out and the sales person reminded me that I had to buy something to go under them. SIGH! So I spent another $100.00 or so on yards and yards of this non slip fabric that goes under the rugs. Well this tip from Martha could have saved me some dough...check it out!

Click HERE to link to Martha Stewart!

Use it again ...and again..

I think we have lost the art of multi tasking. Not at work, we have mastered doing entirely too many things all at once, but the art of reusing objects and giving it more than one use. I realized I had when I looked in my laundry room and saw 5 different types of detergent. One for baby clothes, one organic kind, one for sensitive skin, one for smelly clothes and bleach to top it off. That is RIDICULOUS! By my plethora of detergent I also found 2 laundry bags (next to my two laundry baskets). I was determined to get them out of there but I HATE throwing things away! I knew I could/should get creative about another use for this mesh laundry bag. Well...the toys in the kids bathroom is out of control and I almost bought a net online the other day to wrangle them all together...hmmmm. So I found a rogue suction cup and up went the mesh laundry bag and all of the toys. I know it may sound silly, but I felt like I just helped the environment by not tossing it out and just saved myself some dough by not buying the net for the bath toys. It's the little things in life isn't it? So this week, don't toss out that extra baby shampoo. Reuse it! Did you know you can wash your delicates with baby shampoo? You can even clean your delicate wood furniture with it! There are a million uses for everything we have, we just need to get creative. Leave a comment and share your reusable tips!