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Unknown: Hi, I'm Paige Killian,
and I'm passionate about helping

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busy moms of littles organize
and style their life in three

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simple steps. Living this mom
life is incredible, and

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sometimes completely
overwhelming. is stressing about

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overstuffed drawers never ending
mail piles, a mountain of Legos

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and our kids artwork really what
God intended. No way. Getting

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organized has been a game
changer for me, and also my

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clients. But it has to be
simple, or it just won't get

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done. So let's simplify the
process and clear the clutter to

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see the blessings God has for
us. I know your time is

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valuable. So thanks for joining
me each week for a healthy dose

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of organization and a whole lot
of motivation.

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Oh, hello, hello. Welcome back
to another episode of the moms

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organization motivation podcast
where we discuss all things

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organizing and doing it while we
are busy moms of littles, and

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middles and bigs.

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I am saying that because I have
kids that are growing at

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lightning speed, and one of them
is about the same size as me

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now, and I can't even handle it.
This is middle school MRI. So

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today I wanted to talk about
those kiddos plus organization

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and all of the stuff that comes
along with having kids, and then

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finding a way to make that fit
in our space without it feeling

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disorganized without it feeling
cluttered. And I wanted to title

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this episode, hidden in plain
sight. Because I wanted to make

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sure you would do me a solid and
not let my children listen to

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this episode because I'm going
to divulge some secrets today.

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One of the things that I was
really, really certain of is

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that when we moved into the new
house where we live now, which

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still feels new Sunday's other
days feels like we've lived here

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for many, many years. But we
bought this house at the end of

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2020. We were one of those COVID
homebuyers. So we have moved

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into the house. And we were
leaving behind a storage space

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and a townhouse that we lived in
for a little while and moved

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into a larger home, not totally
bigger, not too much bigger, but

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it was going to offer us a lot
more storage. And I said to my

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husband, the things that we have
in storage right now, I would

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really like to be able to take
them into our home and find a

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space for them. And then purge
what doesn't fit. Because it

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just was one of those things
that I thought we can let go of,

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we don't need an additional
storage unit. So it was really

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important to me when we moved
into our new home, which

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technically, it's not really a
new home. We've lived here for a

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few years at this point. But it
still feels new in some ways.

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But it's really important to me
to not hang on to that storage

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unit, I really wanted to try and
make everything that we had that

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we needed fit in our new home.
And one of the things that I

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decided I was going to do is
make use of the garage. And that

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weird awkward shaped under the
stairs closet, you know the one

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that slopes down into sort of
this awkward triangle? Well, we

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have one of those that you can
actually walk into it looks like

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a regular normal closet. And
then you can walk in and then

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you see the back of it sloped
down and it actually goes wraps

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around back underneath our
stairs as well. And so we have

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this kind of awkward shaped
closet. And I thought I want to

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maximize that space. And also I
want to maximize the space

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that's in my garage, because we
have these great cabinets that

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were already there when the last
homeowners were there. So I

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wanted to make sure that I had
enough space for holiday decor

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in those two areas. And then I
wanted to make sure that

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anything that I was going to be
gifting the kids, even my

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husband, don't let him know
about this episode, either the

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kids, my husband, any birthday
presents that we might have on

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reserve in case my kids go to a
birthday party on a weekend and

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I haven't had a chance to go get
something or order something on

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Amazon. I like to have a lot of
these options already sort of

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waiting in the wings, or waiting
in the garage or waiting in the

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under the stairs awkward shaped
closet. And the way I've done

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that is actually containing it
in clear plastic bins so I can

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see through it, but then using a
chalk label to make sure that I

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give it a title. Now what I
know, but my kids don't know is

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that there are a couple of
miscellaneous bins and those are

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the ones where I hide in plain
sight. Some of these things that

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I want to have on reserve that
they don't necessarily know

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about. If I hear in conversation
that one of them is talking

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about oh I really love this
thing or oh what am I for

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friends got this thing and they
really love it, I sort of do a

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mental check in, do I have
something like that coming to

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them if a birthday is coming up
or like Valentine's Day or a

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holiday like Christmas or
something, do I have something

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like that? If I don't, I know
that I could grab that now have

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that tucked away in one of those
miscellaneous bins, or tuck it

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away in a container that is in
an awkward shaped closet that

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they never go in, because they
just think it's our holiday

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decor. And then that way all be
prepared. So when those dates do

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arrive, I have already gotten
some of those items. And they

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are ready. So I wanted to bring
that up today, because I was

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just recently working with a
client actually a few clients on

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their garages right now, in
Southern California. Well, it's

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so freezing yesterday. And
today, we've got some really

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chilly weather coming up, we
actually had quite a break in

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that chilly weather. And it got
warm for a little bit in

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January. And so I started doing
a lot of garages, and one of my

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clients I was just working with
yesterday, we were talking about

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putting some new shelving in her
garage, and instead of having it

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be cabinetry that was closed up.
Because think about cabinetry

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that's closed up as well, it's
great that it sort of out of

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sight out of mind, two things
can happen. One, you can forget

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what you have. And to sometimes
you don't the things that you

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have don't fit specifically into
a cabinet or into the confines

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of a container inside of there.
And so it's kind of nice if you

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have open shelving, if something
needs to, like hang over the

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edge just a little bit if it's a
temporary thing. And one of the

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things we talked about is
instead of doing cabinetry, what

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if we did these open shelves,
and we did and they turned out

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so well, it's a whole clean,
clear wall on her garage side of

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the wall that we actually pulled
out cabinetry that was really

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old and just was not serving her
anymore. Some of it was broken.

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It just it wasn't working. And
then we put in these awesome

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open hanging shelves. And so we
said some of the things that she

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needs, like, you know, maybe K
parents, this is where if your

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kids are listening, you say, I
hope you've enjoyed what you've

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heard so far. And now I'm going
to listen to the rest of it in

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my earbuds. Get you've been
warned. Okay, here we go. Turn

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it off.

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Put in her earbuds. If you've
got like the elf on the shelf

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that you're wanting to hide, if
you've got like any of those

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surprises, things that you want
to have, that you don't want the

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kids to see. Or maybe if their
birthday is coming up and you're

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wanting to hide things like I
was talking about I do. I really

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love having clear bins so you
can see what you have in there.

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But you can actually take a
piece of printer paper or you

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could just simply put those
contents in a bag, even like a

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shopping bag or something that
they came in and place them

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inside. And then you can label
it something that would not be

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something they would think oh,
that looks like an interesting

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container I need to get into and
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So case in point, my client
yesterday, she was saying she

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was trying to hide something
that's for the holidays. And she

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said, What can we do? Because
it's clear, and they're gonna be

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able to see through it. And I
said, No, let's just put it in

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this white bag. So they have no
idea what's in it. And we're

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gonna put a label on it, that's
a code for you. And so we

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decided that we were going to
put Christmas and then we were

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going to write the mom's name,
because that's not really

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anything that the kids would get
excited about. Or think I'm

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going to pull that out and look
at it. And she said that way, if

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it has my name on it, I'm going
to know, these are the things

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that I need to get into. And
then you can constantly rotate

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them, right. So like if
something comes out, like I do

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when when I give the gifts to my
kids or to my husband, and it's

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out then for whatever the next
holiday is, or whatever the next

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reason is that I might give them
a little something we used to do

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mystery surprises if you've been
listening to the podcast for a

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while we had these marbles in
jars and we call them rock

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stars. And so if the kids did
something awesome, they'd have

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rock star moment that we would
drop in a little marble and then

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for the end of the week or
toward the end of the month,

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they would trade in their rock
stars for a mystery surprise or

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sometimes they could trade it in
for like an extra BEDTIME STORY

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stay up a little bit extra

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like to read a bedtime story,
maybe it was go to a movie,

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dress with mom, or go hang out
with dad and do something

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special. So it wasn't just
materialistic things every time.

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But that was kind of a cool
thing. But we did have mystery

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surprises. And this, again, was
a bin that I had, that I had

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labeled miscellaneous. And I had
no idea what that meant what

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that was, so it wasn't of
interest to them. And I would

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always make sure that I would
have something to cover it

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because it was clear. So just an
idea, that is something that we

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did that was really smart of
them on to say, put my name on

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it. So that way, they're not
going to be going in it because

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they don't care, whatever mom
has tucked away, and they're not

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going to know that it's stuff
for them. So that's an idea. I

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do love chalk pin, I've talked
about that a lot. They work

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really well on clear bins, they
work well on some other bins as

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well. But if it's white chalk
pin, you probably don't want to

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put it on white bin, you might
want to do one of those adhesive

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chalk labels. And then you could
write over the top of it so that

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maybe it's like a black adhesive
label, and then you write over

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the top of that, but I love
those because that way, when

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they're constantly changing,
then you can wipe it away. Now

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what I do have, and I did this
intentionally is I haven't been

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that says gifts. And those
gifts, my children understand

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our gifts in case any of the
friends that have birthdays

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coming up, and we didn't get to
shop, that's where we might

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store things in there. So it's
okay, if they go in there and

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pick out something for a friend,
that's totally fine. Or maybe I

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have things for my parents or my
brothers who don't live here in

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town with me. And so I can put
their stuff in the gift bin. And

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then whenever a birthday or
holiday comes up, and I want to

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send them something, I can pull
that down and say, Oh, I got

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something for peers, I got
something for Parker got

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something for mom or dad. And
I'm gonna grab that quickly

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packaged it up, and then take it
to the post office and mail it

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to them. So these are just some
ideas of actually hiding things

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in plain sight. But it's more
for you to know, it's a great

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way to sort of have things at
your fingertips that you need.

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And they're super easy and
convenient for you. But if they

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are surprises, and they're not
things that you want your

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littles or your husband to see,
make sure that you put some sort

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of code label on it and make
sure that you are covering it if

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it is a clear bit. So just
wanted to leave that with you

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today. Hopefully, that is going
to give you some ideas of how

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you can store your stuff in
plain sight. And also ditch the

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storage unit and get really
clear on what it is what you

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need. Find some storage
solutions within your home that

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you can make work so that you
don't have that extra added cost

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of paying for that monthly fee
or you don't have the necessary

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driving to and picking those
things up and bringing them

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back. Now if you don't have the
proper storage at your house,

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absolutely use a storage unit
for as long as you need to. But

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don't let it get out of control
and super cluttered. Because

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that is the fastest way to
forget the stuff that you have

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in there. And then you are
paying monthly for this service

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that is really costing you money
in the long run because you're

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not even using the things inside
of it because you've forgotten

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it. So keep that in mind.
Hopefully this helps if it did

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share it with a friend, a busy
mom friend of course. And I will

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talk to you next week for some
more organization motivation.

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Bye bye.

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Thanks for listening to another
episode of the moms organization

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motivation podcast. For more
resources to organize and style

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your busy life, head over to
everything with style.com and

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connect with me on Instagram at
everything with style mom. If

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this episode was helpful for
you, please share it with your

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friends rate and review it on
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now, and let me know what you'd
like to hear about next. Thanks

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again for listening and happy
organizing.