I’m back with the first update on my organization progress! I managed to get everything finished that I set out to do this week. I also learned a valuable lesson. I need to be more diligent with keeping up with Sienna’s baby book. I had to rack my brain and look at old pictures to remember details!
I started out with purging my books and magazines:
These are the books that will be leaving our house. Not too many as I did a fairly significant purge last January.
And the magazines that have left. For those of you wondering what I did with my What’s Cooking magazines, I purged them! I ripped out a few recipes we liked, then figured I could find recipes online if I wanted. I have a drawer in an end table that is now empty. 
Here’s the box that any magazines will go into. Every time it’s full, I’ve decided to purge some magazines to make room for any new ones that may land in my hands, rather then finding another box to fill.
Organizing Sienna’s toys was simple. I emptied a basket I had filled with blankets then filled it with her toys! Since Sienna is still little, she doesn’t have all that many toys yet. Most of them are quite small too, so the basket was the perfect solution! The basket just stays in our living room since we spend the most time in there.
Her baby book was another story. That took me awhile to get up to date 
Note to self: jot more notes as we go about our days!
Coupons. I actually started this on December 31 because I wanted to use any full value coupons I had left! I cut and sorted the coupons into my binder system. Then more kept coming in the mail, so all week I was cutting and sorting coupons it felt like!
Guess what? Since I organized my coupons, that means you can expect to see a coupon giveaway on Monday with all of the coupons pictured below!
How did your organizing projects go?
Up next during my January Organization endeavor:
- Put away and purge Christmas decorations (We don’t have too many decorations so I may not purge at all)
- Purge the storage closet in Sienna’s room
- Linen closet/bathroom cupboards
I’ll have another update for you next Saturday, January 12, 2013.
I too was quite successful getting organized this week!
The pantry, food cupboard and under the kitchen sink are now organized and it has already made my life easier.
Having an organized kitchen allowed me to easily make my grocery list this weekend. I knew exactly what I needed which means I am not buying items I don’t need.
To help with organizing the pantry, I used baskets from the dollar store and reused empty pasta sauce jars that I had.
Thanks for the inspiration! Next week I am going to tackle my bedroom closet, foyer closet and under my bathroom sink – wish me luck!
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Simply Frugal Reply:
January 5th, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Way to go Lindsey! That’s so awesome that you’re already reaping the benefits of some organization! Good luck next week!
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I also had great success this week as well! My pantry (a tiny room under the stairs) is well organized and it’s much easier to find things and since my Dr.Pepper is now stored in there I find it more “difficult” to get to every time I want one so it’s going to force me to drink more water! I donated my sons excess cloth diaper stash to “Cloth for a Cause” a cloth diaper lending service so that made me happy and freed up some extra space in his room.
next week I’ll be organizing under the kitchen and bathroom sinks and my “laundry closet” that will hopefully hold a washer and dryer soon.
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