: North Texas Kids : Your family guide to raising happy, healthy kids

Top 10 Organizing Products for 2018

2018 Top Ten Organizing Products

Happy 2018! It is yet another year to try to get organized in your home and with your life. Organizing your home often takes the purchase of products such as containers, bins, and baskets. Products serve to maximize space, containerize items, and give a cluttered area a polished look.

When deciding on a product purchase, we all love to read the reviews of others, or get a recommendation from someone we trust before buying it. To help guide you as the new year begins, I have asked for recommendations from our Get Organized! professional organizers and our staff members. Some of the products mentioned may not be an actual container, but could aid you in getting organized. I will share my favorite organizing tools also.

Organizing Clutter Under the Sink

Organizing Solutions for Clutter Under the Sink

Open up the doors under any sink in your home and you will most likely find clutter. Bottles you have long forgotten, half emptied cleaning products that you no longer use, nail polish that dried up long ago, and medical supplies you brought home from the hospital after having your first child…10 years ago.

Cabinets under a sink get easily cluttered because the spaces are often dark and hard to reach, with items becoming lost or forgotten in the back. Organizing solutions can range from expensive custom pull out drawers to a few less expensive products to help keep the clutter in check.

Organize a Bathroom to Keep the Romance Alive

How to Organize a Bathroom to Keep the Romance Alive in Your Relationship

by Lorraine Brock

Most people do not think of romance when they consider organizing a bathroom…but why not? An unorganized bathroom might not light a spark, but one that is nicely organized could set the stage for a little romance. It is often a place to unwind from a long day or to get ready for a special event. With a few simple strategies, your bathroom can be an organized dream to keep the romance alive in your relationship.

Six Steps to Organize Your Closet in One Weekend

How to Organize Your Closet in One Weekend

If you are blessed enough to have a spare closet in your home, you will love the ideas described below for getting your space organized to suit your needs. You might even be able to apply some of them to your own master closet, allowing you to maximize space and give you more function in the space.

Closets are fun to organize, and because they are usually a small space, the project can be completed in a weekend. This makes it clear to see the finish line. It is best to enlist some help before you start. Many times another person will visualize your space totally different than you see it, offering another level of beauty or function. This month, I wanted to share the steps I took to organize the guest room closet of a real client. I will tell you how I planned and organized the space, what I purchased, and what I built in the space to improve the function.

Home Organization: Clutter Busters

Home Organization: Simple, Strange, and Slightly Odd Clutter Busters

by Lorraine Brock

Have you ever had a hard time parting with a small twist tie, empty used container, or a thing-a-ma-jig that you are sure you will use later? Organizers call this clutter. Too much of this and that causes a lot of that, which causes clutter. This blog is all about helping those slightly stubborn folks that can’t seem to part with their “I’ll need it someday” stuff.

Top 10 Organizing Products for 2013

January is National Get Organized Month: Check out Our Top 10 Organizing Products

By Lorraine Brock

For those of us in the professional organizing industry, January is an exciting month. It is National Get Organized Month, and with it comes new and interesting products displayed front and center in the stores to help people just like you get organized. Although the new products often have fancy patterns and cool advertising slogans that encourage impulse buying, remember that the products alone will not get you organized. You should purchase products that solve your organizational challenges and compliment the organizational systems you have in place or that a professional organizer puts in place for you.

To help you with your organizing product purchases, I am excited to share my first Top 10 Organizing Product Recommendations, a tradition I look forward to continuing each January at NorthTexasKids.

For this list, I went straight to the professional organizers that work with our clients and asked them to share with me their favorite organizing products. Here are their responses (in no particular order of importance) and a few of my own favorites: