Library books organizing

Who likes paying fees on late or lost library books?  Not me.... and I am sure neither do you.
We are big on library books. When my kids are at the library we rarely come back with 3 or 4 books. I have ended up borrowing 20 books at a time. The library books that my kids borrowed from the library would easily get mixed with their own books in their book collections. So keeping a count of them when its time to return would stress me out.
Soon I had to look for an easier way to find library books at the time they are due for return.

 So I found out the best way for them.

Here are a few pictures.

My little girl's library bin...(shown below). She chose to decorate it with her Disney princess wall stickers, that we had for her on her wall. We got rid of them last month as we are deciding to redo kids room. (Pictures to come soon.) As she loved a couple of these stickers (.. of course.. hearts and stars .. )  I found the best way for her to hold onto those until she is ready to let go of them.

My son's library bin...(shown here). Personalized with dinosaurs, Pokémon, and SpongeBob...   :0)

These are just magazine holders I found at the Dollar Stop at Target for $2.50 each.

These library bins are placed on their headboards, so when it is time to read at bedtime it makes it easy for them to pick and read. This way my kids remember to finish reading the borrowed books and when it’s time to return I give them their own library tote bags for their books. 
I dropped in a few bookmarks in each bin for those books too.

This helps them becoming more responsible when they borrow stuff be it library books or a toy from a friend.

Anything that makes life easier adopt that system in your home and find stress free living.

I love to Organize and Manage.

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What is Organizing ?

Organizing…

What exactly is organizing? Different people think differently about organizing.

The level of organizing for every person depends upon their ability and desire to reach to and access things. For someone tools kept in the garage in a big giant box is organized enough. But for someone else the big giant box just stored with tools is just not good enough. He needs to have his tools all separated and categorized in different categories and made most easily reached to when needed.                                                                                                                                                               

Organization is providing a structure and system. A system brings along a way of life that eventually forms a structure. Organizing doesn’t have to be expensive furniture and high end kitchen remodeling. If that would be the case I would out there shopping right now… but unfortunately our credit cards have a limit ;(  .. nah  but it doesn’t work like that.

The first step to organizing is to find out what your means and resources you have and how you can make the most of it. Life happens, which means as each day goes by we bring in stuff and slowly each stuff we bring in, either gets used or gets stored away. Kids outgrow clothes, we as adults sometimes fluctuate on our sizes.. , our design and decoration taste changes, technology changes. As each day goes by these clothes, decoration pieces, old phones, and obsolete electronic devices just get stuffed in the corners of the closets or boxes in the garage storage shelves.   

Of what I have seen is that the some of us buy stuff with the hope of finding a use for it later in life. Markdowns, clearances, discounts sometimes end up becoming a disadvantage to many people. The purchases soon turn into clutter and eventually soon becoming a reason of stress.

When I was little my mom would say “A messy room is an unhappy room.”  Back then I did not completely get what she meant, but now it’s different… I am a mom myself.. well that changes a lot and how I see things …So I know now what she meant.  I tell my kids the same thing.

So where do I start? You ask.. well I think you have already taken the first and most important step, the fact that you are reading this article and looking for motivation and ways to make your space and your life clutter free and more organized is already a major step to finding help.

The most important a criterion in organizing is only keeping stuff that your space can accommodate.  The more you understand and analyze this fact the easier it gets for you.

When things get organized .. they eventually make life more manageable , which results in less stress.

Over the next few months I will try to motivate and try to inspire clutter free and organized living.

Thanks for reading and stay Motivated..