The real world is keeping me from spending time in my home online really writing today, but I wanted to stop by and say, “Hi”!
There are still some steps to the New Year Fresh Start series I need to write out and I have the rest of the kitchen series drafted out so they will be published finally soon. But before I finalize my schedule for adding more articles, I was hoping you would let me know what you are most interested in seeing next.
The Readers Can Take Over LPO in January
I know this is the time of year everyone wants to get more organized. I would really like to try an experiment throughout January. I would LOVE spending the entire month only talking about your organizing. The only problem is that so far the numbers in the comments have not come anywhere close to matching the number of regular subscribers, so I wonder if we could get enough questions and comments to make it work.
So I have some questions for you that will help me find out.
- What are you most interested in me working on next?
- Do you have a specific space taunting you that you would like to talk about?
- Do you have a question or need help from the rest of us?
- Do you have some neat tips you would like to share for certain spaces?
Here is what I was thinking:
- That if you have a question, you could post it here in the comments or e-mail me (laurelplum [at] laurelplumonline [dot] com) and then I could reprint them separately in their own space, give my answer then leave the comments open for others to answer and all of us to talk about.
- We could spend days where we just name a space and everyone could leave their tips and tricks for that space.
- Since we all get frustrated and have funny moments or discoveries when we start getting organized, I thought a few rant and laugh days would be fun and really remind us that we are not alone with the dust bunnies.
- For you fellow bloggers, I can add Mr Linky at least once a week so you have plenty of space to share your organizing adventures with the rest of us. For you non-bloggers that have more to say, let me know if you are interested in writing a guest article.
So are you interested?
smiley credit: image and animation borrowed from Plurk
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OK, so you guilted me into commenting. LOL
I don’t know where to even start. We bought a house in the end of September. So now that we’re 95% unpacked (you know how that goes… I still have all that stuff to decorate with I know NOT what to do with) it is down to the organizing and whatnot. As this was a house I bought that someone else had done things to, it is becoming interesting trying to manage. Especially because there is nearly NO storage space. For example, my freezer is in a regular room. Yes, it sits on carpet. Don’t ask me how I”ll defrost it, maybe you don’t REALLy need to do that? This house is definitely laid out weird. It’s a nice size, but not how I would have utilized the space if I was the architect!
So my goals for the new year, storage where there is no storage. LOL As well as just figuring everything else out!
If you have any ideas… well I say post that!! 
I like your basic ideas… I think they are all good for the new year. I know that’s little help, but hey. It’s my 2 cents. Now I’ll go back to just reading
Lady Ozmas last blog post..An Office Remodel
I have one combo space that is making me tear my hair out. It’s a guest room right now, but we are wanting to turn it into a craft room/guest room. Problem is, it has a weird 4inch deep closet (I kid you not, it’s only 4 inches from the front to back…you can’t even hang clothes in it…..WEIRD) that sticks OUT into the room, and a “short” wall (the roof line comes down to about 5 1/2 ft off the floor on one side). So lack of full walls, weird closet and NO I can not afford a quality pull out couch or *yuck* futon to replace the mattress that is in there…so what’s a girl to do?? Did I mention it is like only 15ftx15ft with all those weird things? the mattress takes up the majority of the room… I have GREAT ideas to organize a craft room but I need SPACE saving help for the craft room that isn’t ONLY a craft room HELP!!
I am sending you an e-mail with some more questions. There are many things that come to mind that may help you, but getting some more details about your space would make them better. I would love to reprint your situation in a post by itself. A guest room combined with a second purpose is very common. There are a lot of people that could benefit from finding some solutions to try and a lot of people that would be able to share their space saving storage tips and resources. Thank you for commenting!
Hey!Making storage is a little harder than making efficient use of available storage, but it is very possible. I will eventually get the basics down for room by room organizing and will try to include as many examples of alternatives as possible. That may not be much help right away, but if you have something specific come up give me a shout (or Plurk) and I’ll jump to it sooner instead of you having to wait for me to get to it.
I love the way you re-arranged your pantries and office space. You did an amazing job of finding solutions that worked where you needed them – and so frugally! I would never have thought you were having storage problems. P.S. If anything in those spaces start to bug you later, let me know. We can bounce some tweaking ideas off of one another!