Easy and Inexpensive Ways of Organizing your Kid’s Bedroom
Those who have kids know how quickly their bedrooms can end up messy and completely disorganized. After organizing and sorting out toys, and putting things in their proper places, it does not take long before the room is back in the same unorganized condition. One day it looks neat and tidy, and the next day it looks as if a tornado touched down. Organizing a kid’s bedroom is time-consuming, and it is definitely not a pleasant task for kids or parents.
Instead of continuously organizing, sorting, and picking up toys, books, magazines, and other items that end up here, there, and everywhere, consider the following easy and inexpensive ways of organizing your kid’s bedroom. With a few simple solutions, tips, and organizing tricks, keeping your kid’s bedroom organized will become easier than ever. Best of all, kids will be able to help keep their own rooms clean, neat, and well arranged with a few organizing solutions.
Free Organizing Containers with Lids
It is a shame to throw away perfectly good plastic containers with lids, especially containers that can be used for organizing, sorting, and storing kid’s toys that belong in the bedroom. Save empty ice cream buckets, empty baby wipe containers, and any other sturdy plastic containers that can be used for organizing and storing all types of toys and kid’s craft supplies. Empty ice cream buckets fit perfectly on freestanding bookshelves, and they can be decorated with craft foam cutouts, stickers, decals or anything else that will make them more decorative for the bedroom. Why buy plastic containers for storing and organizing toys when many are thrown away on a daily basis? Save money by reusing what you can, and recycle what you cannot use around the house. It all adds up!
Organizing and Storing Stuffed Animal
Plush animals can take up a considerable amount of valuable bedroom space, and just like toys, they sometimes end up all over the bedroom. Place them all on the bed, and the child has no room to sleep. Pack them away, and you might as well get rid of them. Instead of having stuffed animals running rampant all over your kid’s bedroom, consider purchasing a pet net. A pet net attaches to the walls in the corner of a bedroom, and a single net will hold dozens of stuffed animals of all sizes. They can be taken down for play, and when put away, the stuffed animals end up becoming a part of the decorating scheme. Leave a few favorites on your kid’s bed, but the majority can be organized in an unused corner well above floor level.
Book Organizing
Shelves for organizing and storing books are a must-have for a kid’s bedroom, and you do not have to spend a small fortune on shelving to store and organize books. Buy pairs of sturdy milk crate containers in colors of your choice, and tie or wire them together at all four corners. Sturdy colorful ribbons work very well when connecting milk crates, and they look nice too. You can make the entire storage unit as large or as small as you want, and it will provide a considerable amount of storage space for organizing and storing books while adding color and interest to the bedroom. This is an inexpensive solution for a very common storage problem, and anyone can build a set of milk crate shelves.
Shoe Organizers for Storing and Organizing Toys
A handy shoe organizer that mounts on a door is good for far more than storing shoes. An over-the-door shoe organizer with clear pockets is perfect for holding kid’s toys. These types of shoe organizers are inexpensive, and they are ideal for storing small parts, little cars, dolls, game pieces, and other small toys that usually ends up lost in the bottom of the toy box or all over the bedroom floor.
Even the most expensive organizers available will not help keep a kid’s bedroom clean if kids are not instructed to pick up toys on a regular basis. Consider making it a rule that one toy should be put away before other toys are brought out. Although this strategy does not always work, along with the use of handy organizers, your kid’s bedroom will stay neater and cleaner than ever before.
Jessica Ackerman from WallDecorandHomeAccents.com, has spent over 25 years honing her skills in all areas of wall candle holders paying special attention to wall artwork.
Eye Cream Blogs tend to Mislead Consumers
If you take some time to search for the words: “best eye cream,” you need to really think to yourself what types of sites you are going to look into with a grain of salt, and what types of sites you should just ignore. I’ve been on a recent mission to explain the difference between people out there who are called “affiliate marketers” and other people who simply report facts. This is a must read if you find yourself constantly questioning the views and opinions from these so-called “bloggers.”
Let me dig deep into this topic so you can see exactly what I am talking about….
Many of the eye cream blogs out there are simply affiliate marketing sites. While I have nothing against affiliate marketing in most capacities, affiliates in the eye cream niche certainly go a little far in their marketing. For those of you not familiar with this term, in short, an affiliate is a paid marketer who earns commissions each time a sale is made from someone who visited their site prior to purchasing a product. In the case of eye creams, affiliates will earn up to 50% of sales made if they convince YOU to go to the next page and buy the eye cream they speak so highly of.
In a nutshell, the affiliate will go to great lengths to get you to hear all of the great information about the “reviewed” eye cream. They will talk about personal experience, point to testimonials that may or may not be used with permission, or in some cases, can be stolen from other websites!
While some eye cream bloggers will tell the truth, give a good eye cream review, and genuinely represent the product they market well, the bad ones spoil this for the industry. They simply misrepresent the products so much that all they really care about is making the sale. This is bad for the eye cream manufacturers – they have to live up to the false hype and probably deal with a lot of returns and customer service issues.
For this reason, it’s best to stick to authority blogs and portals. What exactly do I mean by this? Let me show you an example….
A portal is a domain that is designed to carry out research, news, and information on a certain topic. For the most part, they are the “best” domain name in the entire industry. Luckily, in the eye cream industry, there exists such a portal. You can visit it online for yourself by following the link: Eye Cream Reviews.
You see, this is a true portal. It’s updated daily with eye cream information. It does not slant any product or company. There are ZERO affiliate links on the entire site, and best of all, they are upfront with the audience and tell the world that there are indeed advertisements on the website.
Now, compare this to an affiliate site. An affiliate site is usually written in the first person. It can say “Hi this is Maxine from Chicago, and these are my favorite eye cream products. ” Come on. You really think people are that passionate about products that they take photos of them, write about them, put up a blog about them, and then spend all the time and money to get them indexed and findable in Google? Come on folks, these are marketers who know what they are doing. It takes time, money, and a lot of dirty work to get a site findable in Google. That first page ranking is NOT easy to obtain, and when it is, that’s where the big money flows in.
I don’t say this to slam affiliate marketers, I say this so that people can truly find the best eye cream they are looking for. If you take a good look around, and figure out who the obvious affiliates are, you can really go a long way to helping you find the best eye cream on your first try.
You’re Not Going Crazy – Your Hormones Are!
PMS is something that many women have ‘learned to live with’ – accepting monthly changes to their mood, appetite, energy and sleep patterns as an annoying but inescapable part of life. In Australia, it is estimated that up to 75% of women experience PMS at some time, with 18% of women suffering the more severe form – premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). PMS and PMDD are often poorly diagnosed or treated. These conditions can have a severely detrimental effect on your life. The good news is PMS can be easily and effectively treated with diet, exercise and Natural Medicines.
What causes Premenstrual Syndrome?
The psychological symptoms
Studies show that women with PMS have lower levels of progesterone and allopregnanolone (a hormone that positively affects mood and behavior throughout the menstrual cycle), with elevated oestrogen during the luteal phase – the time period beginning with the day after ovulation and running through the remainder of your menstrual cycle. Lower levels of allopregnanolone, therefore, may contribute to the mood disorders many women experience in the premenstrual phase. Mood symptoms are further exacerbated by the elevated levels of oestrogen as oestrogen stimulates the Central Nervous System, making you ONE FIESTY MAMMA!
The physical symptoms
Although the physical symptoms of PMS are well recognised, the combinations of neurological and endocrine factors that cause these symptoms are not necessarily well understood. For example, elevated prolactin is associated with breast tenderness, fluid retention and irritability. Prolactin naturally elevates during the luteal phase and may be further increased by oestrogen, stress and hypoglycaemia (blood sugar imbalances).
Aldosterone also contributes to symptoms of fluid retention, contributing to weight gain and bloating. Neurological factors, including altered endorphin activity, combined with subclinical hypoglycaemia are thought to trigger food cravings, binge eating and fatigue.
Natural Medicine to the rescue…
Along with dietary changes, Mother Nature has provided a solution. Herbs such as, Bupleurum, Angelica & Vitex are effective treatments for PMS.
Bupleurum is effective for women who suffer predominantly from mood changes and psychological stress due to hormonal imbalance and whose PMS is worse when they are stressed.
Angelica and Vitex are beneficial for those with premenstrual symptoms that are more associated with physical discomfort and pain, fatigue, coldness, weight gain and menstrual irregularities. Vitex agnus-castus helps to bring relief to both physical and psychological symptoms.
Various studies have demonstrated that Vitex supplementation significantly improves premenstrual symptoms over a period of three months. One study showed that symptoms of irritability, breast fullness and bloating were improved by 50%, whilst 93% of 1634 participants reported an improvement of symptoms including depression, anxiety, food cravings and fluid retention.
Finally disorders such as fibroids, ovarian cysts and endometriosis can benefit by herbs such as cinnamon & Red Sage to relieve congested, painful and heavy menstruation. This blend of herbs effectively treats menstrual irregularity, oestrogen excess and dysfunctional uterine bleeding related to congestive female disorders such as endometriosis, uterine fibroids and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Red sage and warming herbs, such as evodia, ginger, cinnamon and dong quai, have a decongesting and regulating effect on menstruation. So if you are finding that each month PMS rules your life, perhaps it’s time you turned to ‘Mother Nature’ for a helping hand.
Narelle Stegehuis, CEO of MassAttack and BumpFertility, is a Naturopath specializing in the treatment of PCOS, Fibroids, Endometriosis & Thyroid imbalance. Uniquely her services are offered online. She is both an accomplished writer and recent recipient of the Australian Naturopathic Excellence Award. Download her free e-book “7 Secrets of Weight Loss Revealed” at http://www.massattack.com.au or http://www.bumpfertility.com.au
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