How a Family Hub Can Simplify Your Busy Life

INSIDE: Discover how a family hub can simplify your busy life. Learn how to streamline schedules, track tasks, and keep your household organized with ease.

Remember when COVID happened and the kids were at home for 2 months doing home school…and then when they were allowed to go back, it was part time? Our Family Command Center was the center of the WORLD to us. We revamped it twice…..

Here is the current state

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Now that we have one less kid in the house AND 2 teenagers, we need to change our method. Since technology is the way to my kids’ hearts, we will add some of that in here.

Since this was a BIG job, I decided to do ALL the steps for each portion – Top cabinet, countertop and drawer, and bottom cabinet.

TOP CABINET

1 – PURGE

I removed everything from the cabinet – HOLY CANNOLI….how do I keep ending up here?

This isn’t everything either. The things that needed a new home ended up on the kitchen table…

2 – CLEAN

With my favorite Mrs. Meyers, I cleaned all the cabinet shelves.

I also took the opportunity to change the levels of the shelves, I knew one of my new gadgets was taller than the current levels.

3 – ORGANIZE

I’m getting older and my medication needs have increased. The mesh organizer was not really cutting it anymore. I have thousands of bandaids….misplaced playing and celebration cards, keepsakes, none of that needed to be in here.

So I found new homes for some of these items and the others….well, they got new homes too, but only superficially.

Organizing all our medications with the Cabinet Caddy was a game changer.

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COUNTER TOP AND DRAWER

1 – PURGE

Got rid of the pens, pencils, and markers that no longer worked
Wrapped the cords in cable ties found here
Moved the file folder holder into the craft room (where all the keepsakes are)

Surprisingly, I only had one grocery bag of trash from here…..wait until you see the difference organization makes. There is not a lot of stuff in here, just poorly managed and CHAOTIC!!!

2 – CLEAN

Got out the handy dandy Dyson, vacuumed up all the crumbs then washed it all off with Mrs. Meyers.

The counter top got a wipe down, it was a little dusty.

3 – ORGANIZE

We don’t need the file folders anymore. The kids are more responsible with school needs. The only thing being kept in that holder is old school pictures. So we are moving our family forward…

Remember when I told you about the electronic/technology fueled family? That means, we have a lot of devices. Phones, iPads, and even laptops…..all can fit in this handy charging hub.

All of the old organizers were warped….good thing I planned for this ahead of time. My last Target run, I grabbed these drawer organizers to use in my bathroom drawers, but I only used 2 of them there. They were perfect for this drawer!

Keeping like things together, I organized the drawer to fit our current needs.

We use a lot of batteries – Xbox and wireless everything – so it is very important to keep these organized…..then we know when we need to replace them.

BOTTOM CABINET

1 – PURGE

I don’t know why I have kept many of these things….get rid of them!

2 – CLEAN

Again, Dyson helped me clear out the crumbs then Mrs. Meyers finished the job.

3 – ORGANIZE

AND LAST, but my goodness, not least…

We had a major malfunction in our fridge just before Christmas, there was a constant puddle underneath it. No one could figure out why……so we went shopping. There were 2 to pick from –

Ultimately, the Samsung offered more of what we wanted. PLUS remember when I told you the kids are technology inclined? This “Family Hub” helped me get rid of more clutter from the counter tops and streamline our Family Hub/Command Center.

Why this is important to our family is – TEENAGERS!

The girls can add important dates to the calendar, add to the grocery list, and make us drawing that don’t require paper. Plus, I can leave them a list of chores…that’s the BEST part….