Resources for Family/Home Organization

Home Organizing Tips on Oprah.com
The website for the Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah.com, has a page of good home organization articles in its Food and Home section, mostly written by Julie Morgenstern. Many of these tips covers topics not readily found on other organization sites. For example, articles cover such topics as organizing keepsakes (personal family memorabilia), your jewelry, your bookshelves, your linen closet, controlling the flow of your mail, fine-tune your DVD and CD storage, consolidating address books, camouflaging radiators and TV sets, fold towels and sheets like Martha Steward, luggage makeovers and how to be a travel genius. Other articles will show you how to delegate and how to make your own cleaning products. More personal topics are also covered, such as Fire Your Inner Critic, Find Your Niche and Connect to Your Organized Self.

International Checklists
Organize your home and your life with these easy checklists. Database includes checklists for swimming pool safety, making your own grocery list, home buyer inspections, home buyers, relocation, fall gardening, seasonal gardening and a monthly gardening checklist. Relocation checklist includes tips for parents, finding a home overseas, planning your healthcare overseas and getting a visa. Includes link to checklist websites that offer interactive ways to plan and organize your home and life.

Professional Organizers
If home organization isn't your thing, you can hire a professional using this website. A professional organizer enhances the lives of clients by designing systems and processes using organizing principles and through transferring organizing skills. A professional organizer also educates the public on organizing solutions and the resulting benefits. The National Association of Professional Organizers is a non-profit educational association whose members include organizing consultants, speakers, trainers, authors, and manufacturers of organizing products. Site includes information about professional organizing conferences, chapters, educational programs and more. Find a professional organizer with this easy to use website.

Cut Paperwork in Half
Carol Halsey, founder of Business Organizing Solutions, is an author, speaker and organizational expert specializing in office-based organization for the past 15 years. This site contains information about her booklets for home and family organization. She helps clients, who are usually overwhelmed with work, accomplish more each work day. This is especially true today, with the sluggish economy since many of her clients are handling the responsibilities of two or more people due to company layoffs. She provides free consultations and offers a free newsletter with tips on how to use your time wisely, how to organize your time and paperwork, planning your day, identifying time-wasters and more.

Creative Homemaking
Stay organized with grocery list software, a kitchen journal and grocery coupons. This website offers home organization resources, such as a grocery price book, budgeting software, a free debt calculator, a bill paying system, checklists, a recipe database, decluttering tips, organizing a wardrobe system, bill paying, summer organizing, time management, organizing laundry and scheduling chores. A supportive forum allows visitors to post questions and get replies, a blog gives updated advice and a newsletter offers free tips and more.