Podcast Episodes

096: Personal: Theming Time Blocks

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This week we discuss why theming is, why it is helpful and different ways to apply it to months, weeks and days and different theme ideas for various time bl...

095: Family: Walks

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This week we discuss why family walks are beneficial.

094: Self: Calendars

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This week we talk about the different calendar systems out there and how we use them personally and in our family.

093: Self: Personal Connections

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In this week’s episode, we discuss what you can do to keep track of important facts on people you interact with, how to organize them and some tips on when y...

092: Home: Meal Sharing

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One of the hardest things about preparing meals is coming up with an idea. There are times when even that doesn’t help because nothing sounds appealing. Yet ...

091: Home: Warranties

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This week we return from our summer vacation and discuss warranties. How Dave and Amy are different in how they organize warranties and why it still works.

089: Family: Giving Back

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Saving money and organizing things is all well and good, but the activity that can bring some of the greatest happiness into your life and the lives of your ...

088: Finances: Estate Planning

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Contrary to popular opinions, estate planning is not just for old people! This week we discuss why it’s important to have an estate plan even as a young coup...

086: Home: Overcoming Organization Obstacles

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You can get the full show notes by subscribing to our newsletter at http://www.organizedfamily.co/. Not only will you get the show notes, but you will also g...

083: Family: Board Games

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This week we talk about our tradition of family board game night and why we started it.

082: Children: Cell Phones

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This week we talk about the importance of collecting children’s electronics at night.

081: Children: Financial Lessons Learned

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This week we have four of our five children on to talk about what they have learned. Essentially it’s a test to see if what we think we are teaching is actua...

079: Breaking Tasks Into Smaller Chunks

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You can get the full show notes by subscribing to our newsletter at http://www.organizedfamily.co/. Not only will you get the show notes, but you will also g...

077: Home: Yard Cleaning

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This week we talk about some strategies you can use to involve your family members in helping out in the yard. And Enjoy It!

069: Home: Car Organization, Part 3

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We conclude our three-part series on how to organize your car by discussing how to organize your trunk area and a couple of philosophical ideas on why we org...

068: Home: Car Organization, Part 2

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We continue our a three-part series on how to organize your car by discussing how to organize the main compartment of your car.

066: Home: Organizing Categories

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Our second quick tip for the season is about organizing categories. You can have zones and sub-zones, but categories are yet another way to divide your stuff...

065: Home: Cleaning Up

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Because of the holidays we just have a short tip for all our listeners.

058: Personal: Sleep

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This week we discuss how sleep can impact your overall health.

057: Family Celebrations

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In this episode we discuss how to celebrate small, medium and large accomplishments in your family.

056: Finances: Recap

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This month we reach the 1-year mark for the podcast. Because of that, we decided to do a recap of the year by topic. This week is the review of the finance c...

055: Home: Recap

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This month we reach the 1-year mark for the podcast. Because of that, we decided to do a recap of the year by topic. This week is the review of the home cate...

054: Children: Recap

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This month we reach the 1-year mark for the podcast. Because of that, we decided to do a recap of the year by topic. This week is the review of the children ...

053: Personal: Recap

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This month we reach the 1-year mark for the podcast. Because of that, we decided to do a recap of the year by topic. This week is the review of the personal ...

028: Home: Garage

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Why organize the garage? Creating Zones Maintaining an organized garage

022: Personal: The Pomodoro Technique

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All too often there is more to do than we feel we have time. More often than not in these circumstances, we frantically try and do it all. We’ll write down a...

021: Kids: Chores

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We’ve also added another tool to the organized family toolbox. In a freak accident a number of years ago, we lost the file we used to create the chore chart ...

017: Kids: Contributing Members

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In this episode we talk about chores around the house and as I reviewed this episode I was surprised at all the tips and tricks we share which can be used to...

015: Finances: Needs Vs Wants

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In this episode we experiment a bit with the format of the show and instead of giving you the outline at the beginning, we start with a quote that illustrate...

Quick Tip-001

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Learn a couple tips we use as a family to organize ourselves on Christmas day as we open presents.

Update for October 23rd, 2015

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Well, it’s time for the weekly update for the Organize Family podcast and how things are going here. Overall, things are going well. We’re figuring out how t...

Two Weeks Before Launch

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This week we recorded a guest interview episode. We invited Amy Roskelley over to talk about meal planning and organizing your family to eat healthy meals. A...

Update

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We missed an update last week, and while this feels like we making excuses, well, I guess we are.

Podcast Launch Date and Topics

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We’ve set the launch date and have scheduled the topics for the podcast. We expect to kick off the podcast on the 12th of October. We’ll publish the first th...