Are you looking for the ways how to simplify your life? Me too! I am tired of being the only person who wants to clean up (because for some reason I think it is a lot of fun). My goal is to create something that will be easy to maintain and could be handled by my lazy family members.
I have a full time job, a blogging business. I am a mom, a wife, a chef and a cleaning lady in my own house. Needless to say I do some jobs ummm… not very good. My cooking includes dozens of shortcuts and my other home chores constantly get pushed around into the dark corner of my to-do list. I hope you find this page to be a good resource for organizational solution.
My Personal ‘Simplify Your Life’ Solutions
Rooms
Tools and Gadgets
Visual Inspirations
10 PIctures You can actually use
Other Great ‘Simplify Your Life’ Resources
Organizing Sites
Getting Organized Magazine
Organize Decorations
Organizing tips for holiday decor by Views from the Ville
Organize Any Room
Laundry by Home Goods
Best Apps to Help You simplify your life:
Cozi (Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Windows )
A free app (unless you want to go pro for few extra perks) and website that helps you manage the chaos of family life with a shared calendar, shopping lists, to do lists and more. Cozi helps you keep track of everything from school schedules to sports activities, grocery lists, meals and chores — all in one place accessible by every member of the family and from any computer or mobile device.
SavingStar ( Apple and Android)
E-coupon app SavingStar (www.savingstar.com) gives you coupons for stuff you need and want (diapers, soup, snacks) at your favorite grocery and drugstores. You pay the normal price in the store, and the savings from the coupons you choose add up inside the app. Once you reach $5, you can choose to put the savings in your bank account, redeem them for an Amazon gift card or donate them to charity.
Key Ring (Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Windows )
If you love rewards cards, you will love this app. It stores all of your rewards information and lets you scan your phone in the store instead of carrying around those worn-out cards on your key ring.
ZipList (Devices: Apple and Android)
ZipList streamlines your grocery shopping by allowing you to search the app’s recipe database (there are over 300,000 recipes from popular sites like Martha Stewart and Food.com) and add the ingredients directly to your shopping list. Then you can email it to others, like your spouse, to save you time.
RedLaser (Apple, Android and Windows)
Great comparison-shopping app, RedLaser lets you scan barcodes for items of all sorts to see how much they would cost if you bought them from a competitor. The app pulls up comparative prices from almost anywhere online, including Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, as well as local stores. In addition to price comparisons, it also shows you nutritional information for different foods and even the nearest library stocking the book you’ve been wanting to read.
Evernote (Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Windows phone)
Evernote is a super-organizer’s best friend—it’s an interface where you can organize your notes and paperwork. For example, you can type in to-do lists (complete with checkboxes), scan in whole documents, insert pictures and videos into your notes and then automatically sync up those notes between your smartphone and your computer, storing everything online. The interface is a joy to use.
Remember the Milk (Apple, Android, and Blackberry )
Ultimate to-do list. Organize your tasks by day, priority, type (work, home, kids) and more. Find yourself in town with half an hour to kill? Look up your to-dos by proximity to where you are (via GPS) and check them all off your list. It also offers the option to send yourself reminders by email, text message or instant messenger, and integrates with your Google Calendar and Siri on your iPhone.
BigOven (Apple, Android, and Windows phone)
BigOven offers a database of 200,000 delicious recipes to help you do so. Need to meal plan? Drag-and-drop recipes onto a calendar for a day, a week, or a month. ( Pro version ( $15 a year) generates your grocery list.)
Do you have great ideas how to simplify your life?
Key Ring is a good app, I use that as well. Remember the Milk is a great name for a grocery app!
I love Saving Star, it is so simple to use, and even my older Android phone can handle it. Thanks for the great tools to help get back on track and organized!
I am always so busy so anything to make life easier is good to me!
I love Evernote. Have been using it for years. I’ve also found that using my bank’s and Paypal’s app has saved me a lot of time as well. I also am fastidious about making a to-do list every morning. It helps me see where the day needs to go. – Katy
That’s quite a comprehensive list. I’ll have to check some of them out. I’m still so old school – I’m a pen a paper girl….
Some of these helped me a big time
What a great summary of amazing resources to help simplify life. I love the 10 pictures post. Great ideas there too. I need to check out more of these apps as well.
These are pretty cool
I like using Evernote. It really helps me to keep track of things.
Boy am I ever looking for ways to simplify things! I love cleaning too,my family not so much. I feel like I walk around all day just picking up after people. I have to check out some of these apps, I love having things organized.
Thanks for these great tips. I don’t work outside the home, but I blog full time and I do outreach, so I’m busy 90% of the time too. My big accomplishment the other day was organizing my craft area – which I got about halfway through. But, it’s a start!
With three boys (counting my husband) my house gets super messy at times. And yes, some days it feels like I am the only one interested on a tidy house. Saving this post for later (checking every single link you’ve shared). 🙂
Great list! I love the app suggestions. Remember The Milk sounds like it would be a huge help for my husband.