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We have a mud room that has two rows of hooks for jackets, snowpants, and backpacks. Below that is a 'boot' bench which has 10 cubby spaces underneath for baskets for shoes, boots, sandals, hats and mitts. Also on the next wall I mounted a strip of wood long enough to attach two of those shoe holder things. I used the little holes in the top of the shoe holder to put screws into the wood to hold it up. this also holds shoes, hats, mitts, ski gloves, work gloves and ski socks. I keep out of season clothes/equipment in a mesh laundry bag up in a storage closet. Yep there is a place for everything and everything ends up.........
In a pile on the floor in the middle of the mud room!
Oh well. At least there is a place for everything!
I don't save school notices. The info goes on the big honkin white board calendar and the paper gets tossed. Anything that needs to be saved gets pinned to the persons little cork square under the calendar. All the school kids have an accordian file with their name on it on the *homework table* (NOT in the kitchen!!!) for their school papers. I go through it every so often and throw out things they don't need. They have their name on a drawer in one of those little red, yellow and green kid file cabinets for art projects and special things to save. I also have bankers boxes with their names on them for old projects. (no scrap booking is done here!!!)
I drink a glass of wine at night, and have old wine boxes that I have painted white, cut one side off of, and use for papers/ magazines that need to be saved, as well as newspaper and magazine recycling. DH gets so much stuff in the mail that several boxes are just for his stuff. It helps keep it organized before it goes to the woodburner/recycler. (we can only recycle magazines and newspaper here, not regular mail).
I, too hate laundry, but try to keep up. As soon as there is a full clean basket, it goes the the kids room where sometimes they put them away.
Don't get me wrong, NONE of the work is really done by anyone else, just me. We put in a wood burner last spring, and I think I could heat out home on paper alone, if I stopped recycling. Most of the time it isn't so much that everything is cleaned up as it has a nice looking place to hide until I feel like dealing with it!!! The kids pull clothes out of the laundry baskets in their room, and never hang up the clothes. They have hampers in their room for dirty clothes, but socks end up under the kitchen table, clothes are on the floor in the bedrooms, bath, and toy room, it is usually me that keeps things picked up.
I have chore charts with stars - some things get done on Saturday when the girls see they are short one star for a treat. They can get stars for putting away clean clothes, bringing dirty clothes downstairs.... They also get a star if they manage to get ready for dance/soccer/skiing/ whatever or have their backpacks ready for school, without missling/losing something. Left your gym shoes at home? no star for you! Took your dance leotard off last Friday while playing on the computer and stuffed it under the computer table? No star for you! Did this transform my children? Heck no, but every little bit helps!
Love'em all!!
B,E,S g/g/g 12/96 @32 weeks
R g 6/98
T b 8/00
D b 1/04
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