A new school year is here. What does that mean? Lots of new artwork from your kids! What do you do with all of your kid’s artwork? Do you put it up on the refrigerator? Do you have random piles of it stored in a closet somewhere? Or, do you throw it away *gasp*? Here’s…
Category: Organization
Clean Up Help for the Kiddos
Have you ever told your child to clean there room and they’ve just stared at you. Or, they move things around slowly and aimlessly until you just go on and do it for them? You are not alone! One time, Julie asked her kids to clean their room. They worked hard for about a half…
Coming Soon – Time Management for Moms: Organizing Your Life for Less Overwhelm by Ur Basic Mom
If you’ve been hanging out here for a while, you know, in addition to binge watching shows and fire memes, we’re all about simplifying life for moms. For some of us, that means meal planning, others are all about productivity hacks, and some of us are about setting up systems to make our homes run…
Introducing The Basic Mom’s 30 Day Spring Cleaning Challenge
NOW CLOSED. But grab our Daily Habit Tracker and Checklist below! Get our Weekly Habit and Cleaning Tracker Send me the Tracker! We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe at anytime. Built with ConvertKit As busy af moms, one thing we know for sure, is that finding the time and motivation to clean can be almost freaking…
KonMari: Six Months Later
Way back in January, much of the country was binging the new Netflix show, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, and I was one of them. I fell for all the organized and pretty results shown on our television, bought the books, dove right in and organized and donated all the things. So, here’s a look…
What We’re Into this Week Vol. 5
What we’re reading… Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White. You may be into this whole KonMari wave, but you might also be a slob, like me. This book just clicks because it was written for slobs as opposed to people who love to clean. It’s like watered down KonMari for the…
Conquer Clutter: Organizing My Attic
With springtime upon us, we start thinking about spring cleaning and all of the things we have to do. If you recall, I recently wrote about Vision Boards and how to manifest the things you want to accomplish. Well, attic organization was and still is on my Vision Board. Ahhh, the dreaded attic. If you’re…
The Bullet Journal: My Sanity and Lists of my Life
I have been searching for years for the perfect planner/journal/organizer. I don’t know about any of you, but I am a worrier and I have an anxious personality. Having order in my life truly makes me feel better about life overall **I mean this also may be the sentiment of mothers everywhere, but for me…
The Toy Purge: Is it harder for them or us?
One morning, last October, I ordered a Venti instead of a Grande and decided to spend the entire afternoon sorting through my son’s 10 cubby boxes, closet, and train table drawers. My plan was to rid our home of any toy that hadn’t been touched in at least 10 months. As I picked up each…
Planner Obsessed: Emily Ley’s Simplified Planner {Product Review}
“Let me pencil you in {opens planner to the month two-page spread, then the individual page for that day}, looks like I’m free.” The planner I’m using is Emily Ley’s Simplified Life Planner (2017-2018) and it’s amazing. I’m a planner girl. I use my google calendar on my phone and computer for work, but for…