Organizational Skills

• Best of the Net...

  FlyLady -- What a great idea!  This website will send you e-mails to help you learn how to get control of the clutter in your home!  Totally free -- definitely a thumbs up!

  Spring Cleaning

  If you're trying to get your house looking, smelling and feeling great after winter, the following sites can really help!

  • Home Made Simple - all about the "organized life"
  • Spring Cleaning Tips
  • Spring Cleaning with Herbs
  • Four Tenants of Deep Cleaning

  Get Organized

  • How to create The Family Notebook, a home and family organizer
  • 1-2-3 Sort It -- an amazing website that can help you get organized
  • Chart Jungle-- Free printables and reproducibles for baby, preschool, kindergarten, and more stages. Use the charts provided to help you get more organized in your life and activities.
  • Grace Works Purpose Planners -- designed for women, by Christian women.  Beautiful!
  • Get Organized Now has thousands of tips and ideas to organize your home, office and life.
  • Scheduling Your Life
  • Would you like to receive free timely time management tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day?  Sign up now for free Timely Time Management Tips (select "subscribe").
  • Free Daily Planners (17 different planning sheets you can print)
  • List Organizer is a HUGE website with lots of lists that you can download and customize for your life!
  • Organized Home has ideas to help you organize, declutter, simplify and clean
  • Amy Knapp's Family Organizer
  • Organizing Tips for Homeschooling Families
  • PEGS System for planning family chores

  Check out one of our favorite books...

  How to Have a 48 Hour Day, by Don Aslett This book will help you accomplish so much more in your day -- and it will show you why it is important to be industrious and hard-working.  Don Aslett is the best-selling author of 38 books on the subject of cleaning and organization!

  More Books We Love -- Organization

  • 15 Minute Home and Family Organizer, by Emilie Barnes

  • Managers of Their Homes (MOTH) gets my highest recommendation for help on scheduling your day!

  • Sidetracked Home Executives:  From Pigpen to Paradise, by Pam Young and Peggy Jones

  • Organizing from the Inside Out:  The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life, by Julie Morgenstern

  • The Family Manager, by Kathy Peel

  • Simplify Your Life:  100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter, by Elaine St. James