Home Organizing for Beginners: Organizing, cleaning and time management strategies
You’ve tried everything to get a clean and organized home, but nothing seems to work for you and you really feel like you’re failing at this whole mom and wife thing because of it! You’ve downloaded all the cleaning checklists, you’ve bought cute organizing bins and organizing baskets, you’ve spent so much time getting your home organized. But nothing has helped simplify your life or create the peaceful home you desire. Busy mom, I’m here to tell you that this is NOT your fault. The problem is that cookie cutter home organizing, cleaning and time management solutions don’t take you, your family or your current season of life into consideration. Not even a professional organizer coming into your home can do that! Hi! I’m Tammy. I’m a busy wife and mom with a household to manage and business to run along with coaching volleyball and being on staff at my church. For most of my kids infant to tween years I experienced debilitating self doubt in how I managed all the things at home and work because of the perfection our society seems to expect of us as moms. After recognizing that my home wasn’t the peaceful home I wanted it to be because I was pursuing perfection, I began to research and make changes. I learned that the true solution was to put myself, my family and my current season of life at the core of how I managed my home. We shifted our home organizing, cleaning and time management systems to reflect what would work best for us. I’m here to share with you how you can make this shift too. Welcome to the Home Organizing for Beginners podcast. In this podcast you’ll get tangible and simple instructions about home organizing, cleaning and time management. Instructions that keep you, your family and your current season of life at the core. Let’s shift the chaos into calm by working together. Online course: Home Organizing for Beginners 1:1 coaching email me tammy@homeorganizingforbeginners.com www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com
Episodes

Friday Feb 23, 2024
Strategy 1 Home Organizing Vision
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
I felt fear and frustration everyday when I’d walk into my home. It was always a mess. I’d get motivated to do something, set aside an entire weekend to finally get organized only to wind up irritated with being interrupted by my kids. I’d yell, they’d cry. Ugh. It was an ugly situation! One I’m not proud to share, but I know now that I’m not alone in this cycle.
I just wanted to walk into my home after a long day at work and feel peace, calm and joy. I seriously wish I’d had that back then.
I don’t want you to miss out on the precious time with your kids. I want you to find that peace, calm and joy before it’s too late!
To do that, you’ll have to do something different than what you’ve done before or what we are constantly told by society. Everything I teach starts with sustainability in mind. You don’t want to spend your time organizing the same spaces over and over again, right?
Instead of starting with cute bins and resolving to just get rid of everything, you can learn where to really start - with a Home Organizing Vision. In this episode I’ll share with you what a home organizing vision is, why you need one and how to craft a useful one.
Free Resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization
Your Home Organizing Educator,Tammy

Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey you want to be set up for lasting home organizing solutions, right?
In today’s episode I’ll share with you the 8 strategies you need to employ in order to stay off that hamster wheel of home organizing forever. Then over the next 8 weeks we’ll dive deeper into each strategy. We’ll identify what the problems are when you don’t utilize the strategy and we’ll lay out the steps you can follow to implement each one.
If you want access to all of these strategies today, you can get them for free in the online course The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization. You get video training on each of the 8 strategies and documents to use that will help you implement each one. Again, if you’re ready to get going you can access all of what I’ll be sharing over the next 8 weeks today for free.
Free Resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization
Thanks so much! Tammy

Friday Feb 09, 2024
The Best Way to Get Rid of the Stuff You Declutter
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
So today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this:The best way to get rid of the stuff you declutter.
Welcome to Home Organizing for Beginners.
In each episode I share a microscopic home organizing topic. That just means it’s something you can implement today, from start to finish, if you so choose.
Do you find that as you’re living daily life you sometimes come across something and you think, I should get rid of this? Like, we don’t use this anymore. Something like clothes or toys that your kids have outgrown? Maybe even some of your own clothing that you don’t like or wear anymore. Basically you’re ready to declutter some items from your home.
The simplest way I’ve found to get stuff out of my home that I no longer want or use is to donate it.
Today I’ll share the problems you’re running into that’s preventing you from donating your stuff. I’ll share what the solution is, why it works and how you can implement it today.
To learn your options to continue your home organizing journey with me by your side go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com
Thanks so much and have a great day! I hope we have the opportunity to get to know each other better.

Friday Feb 02, 2024
Closet Organization - Get Started Today
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
You need a way to organize your closet so that you can find the clothes you want to wear when you want to wear them.
Do you find yourself running out of time as you search for something to wear every morning? Maybe you have a favorite shirt or pants, but you know you shouldn’t wear them everyday even if you’re a stay at home mom.
I knew I needed to get my closet under control when I found that I didn’t even use it anymore. It was full of clothes but it was way easier to throw the clothes that I would wear on the bench in my bathroom and get dressed from there.
Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this:How to organize your closet so you can find the clothes you want to wear.
In this episode I’ll share the problems you’re seeing with a chaotic and unorganized closet. I’ll share what the solution is, why it works and how you can implement it today if you so choose.
Thanks so much!Tammy
Free resource: The Secrets to Lasting Home Organization

Friday Jan 26, 2024
3 Steps to Getting Organized and Staying Organized
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
As someone who’s just starting their home organizing journey or feels like they need a fresh start you may think getting organized just isn’t possible for you. Maybe you’ve tried but it just never seems to work.
Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is this: You actually CAN get started, get organized and stay organized.
Home organization must BEGIN WITH THE BASICS by following these 3 steps.
Sort - in this step you’re sorting through all the things.
Organize - in this step you’re assessing everything you’ve decided to keep and the space you have to keep it in.
Sustain - in this step you’re documenting your expectations.
Are you ready to begin with the basics so that you can reach your vision of an organized home?To have the feeling that all your things have a place? To open your home to unexpected guests without fear of what they may be thinking?To be able to find what you need when you need it?
In the online course Home Organizing for Beginners, you’ll begin with the basics and implement each of these steps so you can get there, so you can have the organized home you envision. I'll be with you every step of the way.
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To learn more go to https://homeorganizingforbeginners.com/
Thanks so much and have a great day!Tammy

Friday Jan 19, 2024
How to Stay Motivated While You're Getting Organized
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
This is the time of year when we have some natural motivation to get organized, but what happens when you lose motivation?
As someone who is or feels like they’re just starting their home organizing journey, losing your motivation and not knowing how to get it back can be devastating.
Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is STAYING MOTIVATED DURING YOUR HOME ORGANIZING JOURNEY.
Do you find yourself making progress, feeling good about organizing your closet, desk or junk drawer only to have it all brought to a screeching halt by interruptions? Do you feel like getting organized is just really hard (IT IS!) and you get distracted easily?
Today you'll learn the best way to get yourself motivated again. It involves pictures, but not what you've heard before!
To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com.
Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.
Tammy

Friday Jan 12, 2024
Getting Your Family to Help Clean
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
There’s this thing that often has to be done BEFORE you can even start thinking about organizing your home.
Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is GETTING YOUR FAMILY TO HELP CLEAN… so you can get started organizing.
Cleaning is a thorn in your side, right? It’s time consuming and everyone in the house just messes it up almost instantly. It is so incredibly frustrating!
Does it seem like nobody sees what needs to be done? Or worse yet it feels like nobody cares! Are you feeling like you have to do it all on your own? These feelings can make you angry and bitter with those you love most. (it did for me!)
Today you’ll learn there’s one primary thing that needs to happen so that you can get your family to help clean. This will put you in the position of managing your home instead of doing all the things yourself so that you can get started, get organized and ultimately stay organized.
To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com.
Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.Tammy
Email me at: tammy3schmidt@gmail.com

Friday Jan 05, 2024
Home Organization - Getting Started
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Getting started can be the hardest part of getting organized.
Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is GETTING STARTED.
You want to get organized and stay organized but if you aren’t able to effectively get started it’ll never happen.
There’s a reason you struggle to get started in your home organizing journey. Overwhelm. Do you get mixed messages from friends, family and even Google on where you should start organizing? Do you want everything to be perfect? So much so that you’re paralyzed and can’t even start? Maybe making difficult decisions makes you cringe.
Today you’ll learn a better way to think about getting started on your home organizing journey. One that will help you move past the overwhelm anytime it sets in so that you can move forward, make progress, build momentum and implement solutions that will last.
To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here or go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com.
Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.Tammy

Friday Dec 29, 2023
Organizing Kids Toys
Friday Dec 29, 2023
Friday Dec 29, 2023
SO. MANY. TOYS.
Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is KIDS’ TOYS.
Do the kids' toys seem like litter strewn all over your home?
How many times have you tiptoed into your kids room only to step on a Lego?
Can you eat at the dinner table or are there too many crayons and coloring books sitting on it?
For someone that is just beginning their home organizing journey or feels like they are, dealing with SO MANY TOYS may feel impossible.
In today’s episode we tackle this problem in a way that will help you implement a toy organizing solution today… WITH the help of your kids!
To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here.
Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.Tammy

Friday Dec 22, 2023
Decluttering - What it Means to the Home Organizing Beginner
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Today’s microscopic home organizing topic is DECLUTTERING.
Decluttering is defined this way - to remove unnecessary items from an untidy or overcrowded place. Is your home untidy and overcrowded? How do you feel thinking about removing unnecessary items from your home?
For someone that is just beginning their home organizing journey, decluttering may actually stop you from even getting started. You may have tried in the past but found that it just wasn’t working.
In this episode I’ll share details of the problem “decluttering” creates, what the solution is, why it works and the steps you take to implement it.
To continue your home organizing journey with me by your side click here.
Have a great day! I hope to have the chance to get to know you better.Tammy