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Organizing in the Kitchen - NYT

While stocking up on ingredients to help you cook quickly, you might clear out a bit of the detritus that’s cluttering your shelves.

The Minimalist - The Latest Must-Haves for the Pantry - NYTimes.com.

Creative Family Calendars: Organize Your Family's Schedules

Do you have ten different calendars going for your family? We have a ton of different calendars going: work (2), school (2), soccer, brownies, birthdays, holidays, and more. I've found a few great wall and desk calendars that can help your family get organized. Some folks like a big wall calendar to put in the kitchen, others a desk calendar with lots of space to write - take a look at them all!

Calendars covered include:

• Mom's Family Calendar by Sandra Boynton
• The Thinkbin Family Calendar
• Mom's Plan-It Organizer Calendar
• Mom's Family Calendar by Peter Pauper Press
• BusyBodyBook
• tons of Web Calendars too!

See them all here:

Creative Family Calendars: Organize Your Family's Schedules.

Holiday Organizing Checklists and Forms

Trying to be organized this year from the start?  Try out these Holiday checklists and planners from Real Simple & OrganizedChristmas.com!

Holiday Organizing Checklists and Forms.

Create an Emergency School Supplies Kit | Organizing : RealSimple.com

Real Simple has a great list of supplies to keep on hand for those school projects that are right around the corner!  Check it out, print the list and head to Staples & AC Moore!

Create an Emergency School Supplies Kit | Organizing : RealSimple.com.

Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint | Katherine Boehret | The Mossberg Solution | AllThingsD

Katherine does a nice review of mint.com.... Get your money organized!
Link: Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint | Katherine Boehret | The Mossberg Solution | AllThingsD.

Managing Computer File Clutter

Link: Unclutterer » Archive » Managing Computer File Clutter.

Mighty Magnetic Murals for Your Kids' Artwork

Link: Mighty Magnetic Murals for Your Kids' Artwork.

Save your Sanity with Library Elf

Link: Save on Library Overdue Fees with Library Elf.

Organizing Websites for Crafters

Link: Organizing Websites for Crafters.

Organizing Tips from FamilyZip

Need to get organized?  Try some of these organizing tips from FamilyZip!

Link: FamilyZip | Household | Organizing.

Home Organizing Books for the New Year

Link: Home Organizing Books for the New Year.

Are you ready to reorganize some of your closets, cabinets or storage areas? Did the holidays bring even more stuff into your home and right now it has no place to go?

Giving Disorganized Boys the Tools for Success - New York Times

Link: Giving Disorganized Boys the Tools for Success - New York Times.

With girls outperforming boys these days in high school and college, educators have been sparring over whether there is a crisis in the education of boys. Some suggest the need for more single-sex schools, more male role models or new teaching techniques. Others are experimenting with physical changes in classrooms that encourage boys to move around, rather than trying to anchor them to their seats.

A Card Concierge, in Case You Forget | The Mossberg Solution | Katherine Boehret | AllThingsD

Personal greeting card butler... nice! Get organized with Jackcards.com.
Link: A Card Concierge, in Case You Forget | The Mossberg Solution | Katherine Boehret | AllThingsD.

Stain Removal Guide from Real Simple

Link: Stain Removal Guide from Real Simple.

Holiday Gift List Worksheet from Real Simple

Holiday Gift List Worksheet from Real Simple - Get the Holidays organized from the start!
Link: Get Organized | Organizing | 48 : RealSimple.com.

Exposures Online : Amazing Photo Albums & Gifts

Exposures has amazing photo albums, photo baby gifts, Christmas ornaments and holiday cards. Truly keepsakes. Shop gifts at Exposures Online

Family Organizing Printables from MomAdvice

The MomAdvice blog has some really cute organizing printables for moms:
- Weekly Planner
- Price Book
- Lunchbox Notes {Cute & Fun!}
- Monthly Budget Sheet
- Diaper Bag Checklist

The Ultimate Timesaver: Peapod Grocery Delivery

I am a true convert. I rarely go to supermarkets anymore. Because of Peapod.

I can get virtually anything that a Super Stop & Shop has via Peapod. I can:
- Food shop in my pjs
- And peek in my fridge while I'm shopping to see whether I really do need more ketchup or not
- Get all my shopping done in 5 minutes if I have Lists set up in Peapod
--- At 5 am
--- Or midnight
- And have the bags carried up the steps and into my kitchen by someone else!
- And use coupons
- And save money because I don't smell and see the cookies in the bakery area!
- And I don't have to drag the kids to the market.... And chase the thru the aisles.... And tell them NO ten million times.... And try to ignore the screaming tantrums for the froot loops ... And drag them out.....

All for just a $6.95 delivery charge (with $100+ order)

How it works:
- Sign up
- Build some shopping lists
- Shop your lists and their sale section
- Pick a delivery slot - usually a two hour window - you can shop days in advance
- Check out with a credit card, auto withdrawal from your checking account, or check
- Sit back and wait for them to arrive

Ahhhh Peapod, I love you.

And if you order from Peapod enough, you are awarded with their VIP club. This gets you free products and delivery occasionally.

Save time and Money with Peapod! click here

Getting Organized: Web Calendars

I used Trumba for a year and really liked it. But when they wanted me to renew for $100, I decided to look at all of the free web calendars out there first.

I’ve switched to Google Calendar and it is working well for me. We need a family calendar that we can access from anywhere and that emails us updates and reminders. Walt Mossberg reviewed Google Calendar in this WSJ article.

This Mossberg article is also useful : Testing the Flexibility Of Web-Based Calendars

Yahoo has one and some of the To Do List websites do too... See Walt Mossberg’s Wall Street Journal Personal Technology article on web to do lists at: Net-Based To-Do Lists Permit Collaboration By Family, Colleagues

Other web calendars include:
www.smartcal.com
www.cozi.com - See the Wall Street Journal's Mossberg review of Cozi here

Organizing Tips from Real Simple

Desperately trying to organize the thousands of toys accumulating in your house? Me too.  Take a look at Real Simple's Tips for Space Saving Tricks - especially Big Solutions for Small Kitchens and Big Solutions for a Small Nursery at:  http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/package/0,21861,1209655,00.html?nid=8515060802-1220740