Learn how you can get your home organized with my easy step-by-step organization course. My course is full of organization ideas as well as home organization tips and tricks to get your life and home organized and keep it that way.
ONLINE DECLUTTERING COURSE
For the past several months I have been putting together my Online Organization Course, The Balanced Home. I am excited to teach you my decluttering and cleaning process. These processes also teach you how to create simple routines and cleaning schedules which allow you to naturally maintain your clean and organized home.
No need to hire a professional organizer, or live with the clutter because you will have the skills and learn how to overcome any mental barriers or fears you might have to get started!
WHAT DOES THE ORGANIZATION COURSE COVER?
The Balanced Home Organization Core
($1,000 Value)Contains my core Decluttering and Organization Processes, which shows you how to:
- Learn how to declutter and organize your home–by learning processes and techniques that really work!
- Deal with stuff you don’t know how to get rid of
- Understand what qualifies as hoarding
- Understand how to overcome hoarding tendencies
- Deal with your junk room or junk drawer
The Tools
- Workbook, Resources, Labels, and More ($250 Value). Contains everything you need to help guide you through each lesson, including:
- An easy-to-follow workbook to guide you step-by-step through the lessons
- Printable Labels
- A vision sheet for your home
- A working checklist of tasks you can accomplish in 30 minutes or less
- Shopping and To-Do Lists
- Monthly Calendar and Weekly Schedule
The Mental Foundation
The best processes to overcome mental barriers from Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi’s Mastermind Course ($200 Value). Helps you to find the time, the energy and the motivation to organize your home by:
- Discovering your “true, internal why” -> what motivates you to want an organized home
- Helping you clearly identify what is holding you back from success
- Teaching you how to organize your schedule to create new pockets of time
- Helping you discover what is most important for you to accomplish with your time, as opposed to just urgent or habit
- Helping you cut out the things that aren’t important and identify gaps in your schedule you can dedicate to working on your home
Your Ideal Home
The best processes to set and achieve your vision by breaking it down into actionable steps ($300 Value). Teaches you how to break down an overwhelming project into small, manageable steps, by:
- Clearly defining your goal and vision for your home
- Learning how to evaluate specific rooms and identify what you want to be improved
- Identifying specific, easy to complete tasks in each room that will contribute to your overall goal without overwhelming you
- Getting your family or others involved in the process
Cleaning and Maintaining
The best processes to clean and maintain your home after it has been organized ($200 Value).Teaches you how to maintain your home once it is clean and keep it organized, by:
- Providing you with the basic cleaning routines you need to naturally stay in control of your home
- Teaching you my amazing “Ten-Minute Clean-up” process, which allows you to clean an entire floor / room in ten minutes or less!
- Showing you how to establish routines with your kids and other members of the family
- Sharing important resources such as chore cards, favorite cleaning products, and a deep-cleaning checklist, and more
- Explaining the laundry routine we use in our home to get our laundry done every week without even thinking about it
- Teaching you how to deep clean your home after it has been decluttered and organized
- Showing you how to help the other members of your household be on the same page and not “unclean” your home
During the course, we will:
- Show you the process of how to go throughout your home decluttering, cleaning, and organizing. Then you can take this process and go throughout all the rooms in your home–including the bathrooms, kitchen, craft room, home office, basement, entryway, playroom, garage, attic, and all other rooms in your home–cleaning and organizing.
- Clean out and organize not just the rooms themselves, but organization spaces such as closets, shelves, drawers, and bookshelves.
- Learn how to properly use organization equipment, such as bins, drawer organizers, storage bins, food storage containers, lids, and baskets.
The Private Balanced Home Community
(BONUS – Priceless). Provides a community that you can go to whenever you need a place where you…
- Seek inspiration and ideas from others
- Receive support and motivation from others
- Share your successes and see the successes of others as we all work towards finding balance and clarity in our homes.
- Can ask questions and let me know what you may still need help with so that I can continue to cater the course to your needs
What Do People Have To Say About My Organization Course?
“This course was instrumental in helping me organize my space as well as my time. As a busy mom, I have a better grasp on what my days need to include so that I can enjoy my family rather than spend my time spinning my wheels cleaning up after everyone.”
“The Balanced Home Course helped me to be the “professional organizer” for my family! Simple steps to follow, check lists, printable labels, suggestions and worksheets will keep you on track to successfully maintain your own balanced home.”
“I am pretty sure I have solved more issues with the seven layers and clarity tool than I have in 6 months of therapy!! I think this course is going to help much more than my home. Thanks Amy!!!!”
When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!”
When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!””
HOW TO GET MOTIVATED TO ORGANIZE YOUR HOME
HOW TO OVERCOME FEARS AND MENTAL BARRIERS
I asked and these are the things that are holding you back from getting started! I made sure my course helped you overcome your specific fears and developed processes to address each of the concerns below. Have you ever had any of the same concerns?
- “I don’t have the time.”
- “I don’t know how to break it down into manageable chunks.”
- “How do I balance other activities?”
- “I don’t have enough energy / motivation.”
- “I’m overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.”
- “I’m scared / unable to commit.”
- “I don’t trust myself.”
- “I don’t have the confidence I will finish.”
- “How do I maintain / keep on top of it?”
- “I have a hard time with inconsistency / finding balance.”
- “I’m afraid of quitting too soon and having it be a mess.”
- “How do I build the habits and routines?”
- “Keeping it clean and organized”“Staying focused and not getting distracted.”
- “What if I have physical limitations.”
- “I don’t have the supplies / resources / money (i.e. containers etc.) / storage space.”
- “I don’t want to part with things.”
- “What Do I do with all the stuff? Donate? Kids?”
- “What if I need it later?”
- “My family has stuff they want to keep.”
- “Family is not being helpful or even counterproductive… How do I get my family on board?”
- “No sense of design / vision for what I want.”
- “Lack of knowledge.”
- “Afraid of not doing it right.”
- “Being okay with not having it perfect.”
STILL NOT READY TO BUY?
Because I know that sometimes it can be difficult to take that initial leap of faith, I wanted to give you something that would allow you to get your feet wet a little, something that you could access RIGHT NOW. I think you’ll like it. I’ve opened up a “sneak peek” section of my course, where you can access one or two of the lessons that are a part of The Balanced Home Course. If you click the button below you will be able to create your own personal account / log in for the course and access the “sneak peek” videos.
OTHER ORGANIZATION PROJECTS
If you are interested in taking a deeper look into some of the spaces in my home, check out the following posts!
Thank you so much for this and ALL your other tutorials! You have such brilliantly detailed pictures and such great ideas! I have linked back to your site a few times on my blog. Thanks again!
I’m always looking for fun and creative “boy” stuff. Thanks for posting this. I am linking to this!
I have been waiting for someone to post how to make these. Thank you so much!
I can’t tell you how much I LOVE this cite! You inspire me!
whoa!! this is way cool. Two boys and a summer ahead of us, this looks like something we will definitely be doing!! Thanks!!
What a fab Mom are you are, my boys will love this!
Wow, this is AWESOME! So much fun! I’ll be linking.
I know that my kids (boy – 26 y.o. and girl – 25 y.o.) and nieces (7-14 y.o.)would love to make and play with these too. I can see us doing this at the next family party. Thanks for the directions and pictures.
Thank you so much for that idea!!!! I am in charge of the crafts for my family reunion this Sunday and I totally couldn't think of anything for the boys (10, 11, 12, 14 and 19). I think this is something that I should probably get enough supplies so that the dads can do them too! This will be the highlight of the party I am sure:).
This sounds like something I can make with the kids I babysit. But, your pictures aren't showing up =/
I wasn't sure how to top the Lego party my son had this year, but now I think I can be the best mom ever!
I am so going to try this out! Both of my kids (boy and girl) will LOVE IT! Thanks!
i only visited this page and im in love with this site already! talk about love at first "site"!!!
Amy, how much did it cost for the pvc pipe and what was the original length you needed to purchase? Too cute I thought about making these for my boys last year, but ended up finding a pretty cheap blower online so I stocked up for friend presents. I would like it though as an activity for a b-day party activity that then becomes their favor.
we bought all of the parts for 12 kids and it cost about $16.00 ! perfect for boys birthday party and favors.
Just made 5 of these in about 20 min. Super easy. The shortest the PVC pipe came was 5 feet, so I decided why not make 5. We have plenty of friends that will love to play with them. My 2 year old figured it out pretty quick and is so excited to show his cousin!
We tried these on a large scale – we used them for our "Wild West" Vacation Bible School – cut enough for 170 children and they were the HIT of the year. All ages (including our 30 year old Director) were so excited about these and they were easy but interesting to make. We painted them and girls and boys alike loved them. Bravo!!
what kind of games do you suggest for a bday party with the shooters?
There will be 4 eight yr old boys at the party and I know they will love the guns, but I need something constructive to do with them.
How and where do you load the marshmallows?
Just wondering, did you cover the little…hole, I guess, inside the T joint? Because my marshmallows keep dropping inside the hole!
Love this nifty shooter! Thank you for making the shopping list and directions so clear. I too am making 5 shooters at a time..cost about $6.50. The best parts, PVC made in the USA and my little people can help assemble them!!! Will be following your blogspot for more nifty ideas!
Another idea for the goggles is, that we use the safety glasses that we get for lowes build and grow.
Was thinking another good way to make the goggles would be to use the elastic headbands the girls are wearing now. They type that go around the whole head, you could tape that to the top edge of the plastic, that way the part around the child or adults head would stretch and fit just about anyone.
what if you dont have pipes what do you use then?
What glue do I use?? I am so in love with this! Using it for a Super Saturday project at our church’s annual craft fair.
You actually don’t need to use glue. They hold together fine without it. That way you can rearrange them into different gun shapes if needed.
We are havin problems with the marshmellow shooting very far. I too am wondeing if you covered the hole to the T piece. WE love it though.
We have the same problem!!! Did you figure out a solution?
I like this idea! Give kids the fun of “guns” without the danger!
This is great! I have a suggestion that would be easier to cut it with than the hacksaw. Just use a pipe cutter, nice straight cut and no effort at all. I am so going to the hardware store tomorrow to make these for my three kids, two of which are girls!
Such a fun idea :)
Thanks Cristina! It is still one of our most popular summer activities…even the adults get involved in playing with them! Thanks for stopping by and sharing a comment!
Hi! I could have sworn I’ve visited this website before but after looking at many of the posts I realized it’s new to me.
Anyways, I’m certainly happy I found it and
I’ll be book-marking it and checking back regularly!
Thankyou so much for this great tutorial! I think this will be the perfect thing for his birthday party coming up. Only question is, do you think 3-4 year olds would be able to successfully operate this? How hard is it to “shoot” the marshmallows and do they go very far with little effort?
Thanks!
-Ariel
They can go pretty far. The only thing I would worry about with the younger kids is accidently sucking instead of blowing and then possibly ending up with the marshmallow in their mouth (possible choking hazard). I have only used it with older kids (5 and up). You could put a piece of netting on the inside between the mouth piece and where you put the marshmallow in by trapping the net in between one of the pipes and then snap them together over it to secure it in place. This would prevent the marshmallow from entering the mouth accidently. Then I would think it would be just fine for the younger kids.
What a creative solution! Thankyou! My son is going to flip when he realizes he gets to war with marshmallows for his birthday! (turning 4 years old next week! Time to head to Home Depot I guess!)
Have fun! Hope he has a great birthday and party!
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I am using this as one of my hubby’s father’s day gifts. I am going to send him out on a treasure hunt with clues where he can find the next clue. Each clue will have a piece that when all gathered, will make the gun. Then we will all have a marshmallow war. My clues will be personal to my daughter like, “the place I was born” and “the first place you and mommy met” ….things like that. Oh this is going to be so much fun! Thanks for sharing.
I know this was a long time ago, but I’m thinking about doing it for an end of year Girl Scout Party. But since we’ll be doing it in a public field, we’ll need to clean up afterwards. So I was wondering, how much of a pain was it to clean up all the marshmallows? Or if you missed some, did they turn into a sticky mess?
JoAnne- We just had everyone pitch in and pick them up. They could turn sticky if they don’t get picked up. Have fun!