The new school year is about to begin. I’m the mom to a 4th grader and a 1st grader. (Whoa.) Last year I created homework drawers and despite a few problems with maintenence, I maintain they are a fantastic project.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m at the point in the William Morris Project where some projects need to be revisited or redone. I’ve avoiding posting those projects here because it is redundant. Having said that, I still think it’s important to talk about because online, on TV, and even in real life, no one ever sees an updated After.
This is dumb. Real dumb. Rarely do you hit it out of the park on the first try when it comes to decluttering. A great home organization project begins with a well thought out plan the home owner then refines over time until it works perfectly for them. We’ve been in this home over 8 years and I’m just now figuring things out.
Enter, Wayfair. They are all about the home, and I write for them regularly, so I figured this would be the perfect venue for me to revisit projects that need updates and tweaks. Die-hard ans of organization posts can click over, while those of you who prefer new projects can skip it. Win-win.My first project is the homework drawers, which you can read about here. You can see how messy they became after a year of benign negligence.
To avoid the cluttered pitfalls of last year, I’ve scheduled on my phone a reminder for the boys to clean out their drawers on every half day of the school year, which is about once per month. I doubt they will need more upkeep than that, but only time will tell.
This post was part of The William Morris Project, a weekly series that details the steps I am taking to create an intentional home. You can see more of my goals and completed projects here. To learn more about this project, start here.
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Love the point that “done” never really means “done” in real life. Hope all of you have a great school year! I’m in the process of setting up homework supply space, too. In the family room remodel that seems it will never be done in even the initial sense. Where did summer go…?
I don’t know! I’m so sad that it’s almost ever, and with the library thing coming up, I’m stressed on top of sad!
Me too.
The Wayfair link seems to be broken. This is the message I get: ” Cannot GET /IdeaLounge/Organized-Homework-Drawers-E1152″.
I finally created a homework shelf! It’s a jar of pens and pencils, scissors, a ruler, a compass and an eraser. I just need to get a few notebooks and it’s done. And actually, most of the supplies were brought home from school at the end of June.
Yes! That was weird. I found that Mikey brought a lot of his supplies back, but they were beat up from I don’t know what. This time, though, his supply sheet was very specific and he had all knew stuff, like graph paper and pens.
I checked the link–it should be working now. :)
Teaching boys organization, You Warrior, You! At least at my house this has been my greatest challenge. My son keeps telling me his organization looks different than mine. I could accept that if his organization didn’t resemble a tornado so darned much!
I figure the teachers have a clean out day about once a month for their desks at school, right? They can handle one small drawer at home. ;)
Ha, this is funny. I spent yesterday, our first day of school, cleaning out our 2 homework drawers. (I even almost sent you a FB msg about it, with an “After this past year” photo.) It might seem strange to do it now, after the summer break, but I had to wait until the kids were out of the house to get my organizing-mojo back.
Except for my drawers being a little wider, they look very very similar to your shot above. And scheduling a clean up that they’re responsible for is a great idea.
(And by the way, congrats on the library job, which you’ll be so so, wonderful at — duh. ;) )
Love your every half day idea. Smart mama.
You know how you empty, and purge, and organize?
I’m about to do that with my entire kitchen. It’s going to be gutted next week. HOLD ME, JULES. I’M SCARED.
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