If you have young children, it probably seems like the day will never come when they will be able to stay home by themselves, let alone establish a routine and follow house rules. But, it will be here before you know it… they will become teenagers! So, how do you involve your kids in establishing home-alone rules? No more sweeping this under the rug!! Here are...
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Many children come home to an empty house after school. It isn’t an easy situation for a child or the parent! You’ll both benefit from establishing routines and house rules early on. So, how do reassure your children they are loved, even if you aren’t there? Here are some suggestions: Leave a stick-note or two around the house with encouraging messages. Make sure that you...
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Deciding where and how you organize your clothes, shoes, belts, scarves, jewelry, purses, suitcases, ect in your closet can ultimately define dressing! Create clearly designated areas and storage spaces with this tips!
Playing is often times the best way for children to accomplish a task, even when it comes to combatting household clutter. Dirty laundry, abandoned toys, endless refrigerator art work and unmade beds, have a way of creeping into our everyday lives. And, it isn’t fun. But, we have a couple “fun” tactics for cleaning up the kid-clutter: FRIDGE OR COMMAND CENTER Let’s start with the...
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Organizables are great for keeping kids closet in order.
Our client’s guest room was a catch-all for practically everything, creating quite the dilemma when guests needed a place to sleep. After deciding the room needed to be able to be used by guests once again, our client called Come To Order to help. After a 6 hour Professional Organizing Session, the space was transformed into a fully functional guest room with excess storage space...
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Organization, style, and environmentally-friendly go hand-in-hand with the beautiful Lipper International Bamboo Charging Station. Energize all of your electronic gadgets while hiding the ugly mess and avoiding tangled cords. This sturdy box will look great on your counter or desk, while keeping your space neat and tidy. A perfect gift idea for everyone you know! Measures: 11 3/4-inch W by 6 3/4-inch D by 4...
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July/August 2013 – Kathy was featured in the article “Closets With Style” in the July/August edition of at home magazine! The article mentions Kathy’s SIMPLE organizing formula and gives some suggestions for stylish closet organizing tools. Kathy Jenkins is the President of Come To Order, a Certified Professional Organizer®, Student Organizer, Certified Family Manager Coach, Writer and Speaker based in Richmond, Virginia. She is...
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If you have kids, you will appreciate these awesome toy storage organizers! Neat-Oh! brings us toy totes that are toys themselves. They are bright, colorful, durable, and created with a heavy-duty zipper, so they can take a little abuse. We love these because they provide hours of fun but also make clean-up easy and keep all those small toys corralled. They are also ideal for...
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Closets are notorious for being “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” storage spaces, but if you really want it off your mind, then why are you even keeping it? In a recent closet makeover by Come To Order, we met this challenge head on. Here’s what we did to reorganize and reinvent our client’s closet space: Sorted all the clothes. This is a must for any closet reorganizing project....
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