Organizing Advice (Questions)

Storing Pots and Pans in an Old Fridge?Can I use my 20 year old fridge for pots and pans? (It is still working; I just could not keep stuff frozen in the freezer.) I will unplug it. Can I keep the doors closed? Would it smell? Would baking soda help the with smell?

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Hiding a Spare Key on Your Car?Does anyone know of a safe, yet accessible place to hide a spare car key under the hood, or any other place that can be gotten to while locked out? I don't like the idea of a magnetic box because all someone has to do is pull it off the car.

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Organizing Articles Leaving the Magazine Intact - two magazines

Organizing Articles Leaving the Magazine Intact?I am a self taught jewelry maker. I have magazines from Art Jewelry magazine and Lapidary Journal. Lapidary Journal is still in print and I still receive it. Art Jewelry is out of print. These magazines are incredible resources and an inspiration and I prefer to keep the magazines intact.

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Organizing Day for Kids in Online School?I am looking for tips on organizing my kids' school days. My boys are in online elementary and secondary school. I don't teach them per se, but I keep them on task and help them with questions they have. If anyone can share their experiences and ideas I would be grateful!

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Storing Ribbon?I have several dozen large spools of ribbon, many that are wired. Any suggestions on how to store them and save space at the same time.

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Organizing a Cluttered Apartment?My apt. got some new furniture (and a bed) which made the clutter look twice as bad. Now I want/need to get the knick-knacks onto surfaces, and I think shelves are great idea to use as "hanging" areas to put my cuter misc. items.

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Deflating a Space Bag?It has been a long time since I have used a space bag and can find no instructions.I thought you zip it up with the garment inside and then take vacuum cleaner nozzle, insert it in hole and it automatically lets the air out and shrinks it and you close it with the cover given with it.

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Organizing a Small Apartment?I would like some tips for orgarizing for very small apartment.

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Organizing a Dorm Room?I am a university student and have a small dorm room, in an apartment style with 5 other girls, so all I own is in my bedroom (dishes aside, though that might change with how many my roommates break).

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Hiding a Spare Car Key?There are many suggestions as to where to hide keys around the house, but where can you hide a car key for times when you lock yourself out of your car? It must be somewhere on the car, able to be retrieved when you're away from home.

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Organizing VHS Tapes?I have over 400 VHS movie tapes. I want to display them in my den with my TV and my 500 books. I have a small room. I would like to do this cheaply.

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Makeup Storage Advice?It's everywhere! Makeup storage in a female house is a problem. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

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Storing Silk Flower Arrangements?I have several flower arrangements that I would like to use again. The problem is they seem to take up so much room in my craft room, how and where to store them so they want get mashed or dusty?

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Ideas for a Handheld Portable Database Device?Let me start with an explanation of what I do. I go to various places (pawn shops, Goodwill stores,clearance stores, etc.) and purchase used CDs and DVDs to resell. It is basically a side job for extra cash and something I enjoy doing.

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Organizing and Cleaning Tips for Someone in Poor Health?I'm not in good health anymore. I need help organizing. I can't do much cleaning. My children all say they're too busy, that they have to clean their own houses.

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Ideas for Rain Scarf Container?Do you have any suggestions as to what I can keep my plastic rain scarf in while in my purse? I am referring to the little thin plastic rain scarves that are usually sold in the beauty supply stores.

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Alternative Uses for Photo Albums?Photo albums are often on sale where I live and I think they could have a lot of purposes other than photos. I have already thought of recipes. Any other ideas for photo albums?

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Keeping up with Dishes?There are 4 of us and I am the only one who will wash dishes. I work full time and have too much to do. A dirty kitchen makes me want to run to a take out restaurant. A clean kitchen allows me to think and organize myself and get a meal organized.

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Inexpensive Drawer Liner?What can I use to line dresser drawers, instead of buying expensive drawer liner?

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Getting Boyfriend to Get Rid of Old Clothes?We live in a small apartment. We had to put lifts under our bed, so that we could put Rubbermaid storage bins underneath. How do I get him to go through his shorts and pants, so we can give to the needy. He keeps saying someday he'll wear them. Please help!

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Adding Small Shelves to a School Locker?Any ideas on how to put small shelves in a school locker?

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Need Help Organizing Personal Belongings?I have 37 years of my life packed into 2 rooms. I cannot seem to catch up because my organizational skills are lacking. I wish I could have assistance of a professional organizer, but I am afraid of emotional attachment to some of my belongings.

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Organizing and Storing Tiny Lego Pieces?My 7 year old son is very big into Legos, the Harry Potter, Atlantis, and other sets with thousands of tiny pieces. I need a way to organize and store them so he can easily find the pieces he is looking for without dumping them all over the floor. Any suggestions?

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Inexpensive Storage Bins?Has anyone found an inexpensive solution to those neat little fabric or woven basket type storage bins that go so nicely on shelving? I need a bunch of them, but they are a minimum of $6.00 plus each.

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Homemade Space Bags?Please, can someone give me some advice? I tried using black bin bags and the vacuum cleaner to suck the air out instead of the more expensive space bags. I don't know what to tie them off with so the air doesn't escape from them. Any suggestions?

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Organizing a Tack Room?I am cleaning up my messy tack room and was looking for some help on how to do so! It's not very big, but then again not very small. The place gets dusty often and is completely shut up aside from the door that's left open.

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Frugal Organizational Ideas for a Small Apartment?I live in a small two bedroom apartment with my fiance and two kids. I am wondering of how to organize our apartment in a cheap/frugal way. I am have a very low income and can't even afford a dresser. So instead I am buying one of those "portable" clothing racks.

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Plastic Storage Containers for Drawers?Are there plastic storage containers that would fit in bottom drawers?

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Organizing a Crowded Apartment?Anyone have an idea how to keep a small apartment organized? I have crafts everywhere, in containers, on the floor in Walmart bags, and I can't seem to keep it clean and up off the floor. Any suggestions please?

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Ideas for Organizing Rolls of Material?I would like ideas for how to organise rolls of material in the work place. There should be a system.

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Organizing Pill Bottles?How can I organize my pill bottles? I have around 20 pill bottles all thrown into a drawer and it's not working for me. I take I'd say about 15 different pills a day, but I keep them in a weekly organizer.

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Reorganizing a Dorm Room?How do we reorganize my dorm room? We have 2 beds, 2 desks, 4 dressers for clothes, 2 closets, and 2 windows.

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Storing an Ironing Board in a Small Apartment?When you have limited space where can you store the ironing board? I have a small apartment and we have to iron everyday. Now we leave the ironing board in the narrow hallway which is in the way of traffic. Do you have any suggestions?

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Space Bags Keep Deflating?I have bought 2 boxes of original Space Bags from Costco. None of the bags are holding air. It isn't rocket science. Could I really be doing something wrong? This is a sad day!

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Organizing a Living Room?I need help in organizing my living room. How can I organize it so that it won't look too crowded?

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Pointers for Getting and Staying Organized?I can't seem to stay organized. Can you please give me some pointers on how to get organized and stay that way?

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Organizing Oven Storage Drawer?How can I keep my oven drawer from becoming a mess? Every time I open it, everything shifts around and becomes a jumble of pots and pans. Any suggestions on how to keep the drawer clean and organized without having to overhaul it every month?

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Motivating Myself to Clean and Organize?I am so far behind on all of my house work. I seem to be in a very bad slump and cannot get myself out of it. I feel like I am extremely lazy. I have no motivation at all to get up and clean and it makes me not even want to stay here.

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Organizing Remote Controls?Where to you keep your remote controls? I have 3 different ones for my living room TV and DVD. I have a contemporary living room style with leather sofas and would like to organize them nice and neatly.

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Organizational Advice for a Packrat?How does a packrat/hoarder begin to organize?

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Making Storage Accessible?How do I use my living space to have storage accessible, but without clutter? I have musical instruments, PCs, and stuff.

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Distributing Estate Items to Family?My parent's left me their home and all of their 66 yrs of household and personal items! I now have cabinets and closets filled with mom's memories, plus grandma's, Aunt Mary's, etc. Having a large family, I want everyone to have what they want out of the house, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this.

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Storage Ideas for a House With No Closets?I need cheap, frugal ideas on how to create space like the hat holder idea I have in my house. It is just plain string and it is knotted with loops all the way down and then secured to the wall with a nail. I hang all my Velcro baseball and racing hats from the loops.

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Keeping a House Organized While Renovating?My hubby and I have inherited his grandmother's house. It is a lovely house, rather small but manageable. However, each and every room needs to be reconstructed then remodeled, from the floors being torn up to the ceilings being reconstructed in each room.

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Cleaning and Organizing My House?My house is a "pit". How do you ever get everything cleaned and organized? I need a lot of help to get this done. I am putting up a modular this year and must get this all done this summer. I work full-time and have a husband who is no help at all.

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Holder for Organizing VCR Tapes?How do you organize VCR tapes? My daughters (3 and 6) pull them out of the cases and put them all over their room. If I could have a "place" for them to put them back, it would be so nice. Thanks for any info.

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Managing Time as a Working Woman?I'm a working woman and I'm newly married. My problem is that I cannot manage my time. I'm finding it very difficult to cook, clean and also go to work. I need to be in office by 9.30a.m and I leave the office by 6 pm.

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Storing Light Bulbs Out of the Package?We purchased a lot of fluorescent light bulbs at Sam's (size of an incandescent light bulb) because DH likes to have lots of spare 40 watt equivalent bulbs in the house. They come in long sheets, too big to store in our usual light bulb cabinet.

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Organizing Your Home?I need tips to help organize my home.

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Event Reminder System?I was using Red Envelope for an event reminder, but they stopped sending notices. Does anyone have a system that works? One that reminds 2 weeks and 3 days before the event?

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Organizing Pen Pal Information?I am trying to organize my pen pal letters and the info cards that I have for each one. Any ideas?

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Storing Bulk Non-Perishable Groceries?When I purchase an item in bulk, it all ends up in the spare bedroom - like an 8 pack of paper towels, for instance. Needless to say, that room is becoming a catch-all. Where and how would you store non-perishable groceries and paper goods?

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Archiving Saved Greeting Cards?I am looking for some tips on "archiving" a ton of greeting cards my boss has received. I thought there might be a good suggestion on how to do this by those who scrapbook, which I have never done. Can you help?

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Organizing Keys?I'm looking for a good way to organize my keys. Preferably something that I can mount out of reach of children.

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Making Homemade Necklace Hangers?I am looking for suggestions on home made necklace hangers. I had found some ideas on ThriftyFun, but now can't find them again.

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Displaying Baseball Caps?I have lots of ball caps and wonder if anyone out there has any clever ideas how to display them. I've seen ball cap organizers in magazines but I wonder if anyone has made some kind of device to display/store them? Thanks!

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Motivation for Getting Organized?Everyone says to get organized but how can you get organized with not enough motivation or ambition? I have four children one borderline ADHD and the others pretty well behaved. They keep me very busy.

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Transporting Board Games?I do private tutoring and often take board games in Spanish to work. The boxes are starting to become worn. When I bring them to work, I hand carry the boxes, holding them so that the tops don't fall off the bottoms and pull a backpack on wheels with text books at the same time.

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How do you carry your checkbook?Ladies, do you prefer carrying a checkbook wallet or a checkbook cover? I read an article that indicated most women are dumping their checkbook wallets and simply carrying the checkbook cover.

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Bags that Comforters, Drapes and Tablecloths Come In?Bags that Comforters, Drapes and Tablecloths Come In. I need some ideas for uses for the plastic bags that drapes and tablecloths come in. They are square and zippered. I have also gotten comforters in them.

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Organizing Fishing Supplies?Organizing Fishing Supplies. I am looking for tips to organize fishing supplies?

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Storing Cologne?Storing Cologne. I received several bottles of cologne for Christmas and was wondering the best way to store it to keep the fragrance from losing strength.

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Motivation Tips for a Stay At Home Mom?I am a stressed out, overwhelmed, broke stay at home mom. I am so bad about getting things done, I never finish what I start. I have more laundry than I thought was humanly possible ...

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What Can I Use to Write on a Mirror?I want to use a mirror as a note board, does anybody have any ideas what I could use to write/paint on a mirror that easily washes off? Dry erase markers are not dark enough. I tried one of those markers for windows like kids use to decorate cars for school spirit, but those seem kinda pricey.

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Carrying Powdered Compacts In My Purse?I am trying to find something to keep my BC powders in while in my purse. I carry about 6 powders. Powder is all over my purse. Do you have any ideas on what I can put them in?

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Carrying Kleenex in My Purse?What can I use to carry pocket sized Kleenex tissue in while it's in my purse. I have to keep tissue in my purse for allergies. However, it seems to get torn and dirty and usually ends up in the bottom of my purse. Any advice on what I can carry them to keep them clean and intact?

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Organizing Old Electronics?I have a pack rat spouse. How do I organize his old radios, telephones, records, tapes, etc.?

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My Pack Rat Husband?I have a pack-rat spouse! He never wants to toss anything. I have been secretly tossing things and they are NEVER missed. But how do I toss old TV's, phones, clothes that will never fit his body again, ect?

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Getting Rid of Unwanted Items When You Live In An Apartment?Could you please share tips on how to sell items you no longer need when you live in an apartment building? Since we can not have a yard sale, I do not know how to (items are diverse small big).

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Shipping Breakables?I am sending my sister our late mother's good 8-place setting silverware and silverware chest cross country. Does anyone have any tips for making this process safe for the contents and as inexpensive as possible?

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Step by Step Guide To Get Organized?I would like to get my home organized but have trouble doing so. When I buy storage items I just get more clutter. I would like to know if anyone knows of a free website or a book that has a guide. Or a company, like on HGTV, where they come in and help you.

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Printable Shopping List?Links to sites that offer free printable grocery lists.

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Organize Your Day?Tips to help you organize your day. Post your ideas.

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Organizing Medication?Tips for organizing prescriptions. Post your ideas.

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Organizing Pictures and Memories?I decided to take down the stuff off my walls. "Stuff" being pictures, stickers, movie tickets, song lyrics, anything and everything you can imagine that looks kinda neat. I have taped it up there for years now.

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How Do Frugal People Store All The Stuff They Save?This is a request for all of us frugal people who save everything. How do we store and organize all this stuff? Linda

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Pocket Pouch for Couch?I am looking for a pocket "pouch" or some item to attach to the arm of a couch for holding writing equipment, such as pencils, etc. It must be attractive enough to put in a hostess area Not very bulky I will be happy to purchase one or make it if I had a pattern. Thank you very much in advance. Mary Ann from Michigan

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Organizing Emergency?I have a an organizational emergency! My friends Did and Sabina live together in Brooklyn, NY and they live STY HIGH! I love the TLC show 'Clean Sweep' but they are not accepting submissions now and my friends need help desperately. The house is dirty and chaotic and cluttered to the nth degree.

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