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A Tour of our Family Closet (Video Blog)

August 20, 2010

When I knew that we were moving to a new house with a much larger master bedroom closet, I made the happy decision to create a "family closet" rather than continue to keep everyone's clothing in their own rooms.
What, you ask, is a family closet? It's a rather unique concept that I learned about initially [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: My Recipe Binder

January 22, 2010
recipe-binder-outside

We've talked about some ways to streamline our meal planning, as well as how to use lists of your favorite recipes for ease of planning and quick reference. Here is the last step of the recent meal planning/recipe overhaul that my own kitchen has been receiving lately:

My beloved recipe binder!
It doesn't get much simpler and [...]

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Time to Get Organized!

January 7, 2010
blue dishes on kitchen shelf

Image by macinate
I seem to have a yearly break down in my systems of organization.
I can get systems set up, rooms de-cluttered, schedules made and being used, etc. for about 6-9 months and at that point, they start to disintegrate. I fight desperately to hang on to them, but generally it is of no use [...]

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