My Kids’ Bookshelves Used to Be a Mess

I was comparing organization notes with my friend at church last night (what?!? Tell me you don’t talk organization with your friends!) and got a couple of great ideas from her. I can’t wait to incorporate them into my life. Obviously we all have areas in our lives that we do pretty good with. And there’s always areas that drive us crazy. I don’t claim to be an organization guru. I just like solving problems! Heh~

One of the things that has been driving me crazy lately are my kids’ bookshelves. Admittedly, I do contribute to this issue because I buy my kids A LOT of books. But seriously…they NEED all those books! seriously…

Look how much they love to read!

But they DON’T love trying to keep them all straight on their shelves.

And this, my friends, drives me crazy. I’ve tried a million times to straighten them, to pile them differently, to put them on the shelf largest to smallest (I know…I might have a tinge of OCD in me). None of these “solutions” turned out to be that at all.

Until I had a lightbulb moment (anyone see “Despicable Me” ?? “Lightbulb…” lol~). I saw something on Pinterest about organizing your laundry room and it made me start thinking about those bookshelves. So I took a little trip to the Dollar Store and got a bunch of plastic baskets to organize this mess!

My daughter took the time to organize her books just the way she wanted them. She had a few books that were too big so anything that didn’t fit into a basket went on the actual shelf.

Unbelievably, this solution seems to have worked!

I haven’t re-done these shelves in a couple weeks. And that, dear friends, is a minor miracle!

And minor miracles merit declaration of victory in my house! HA – take that messy shelves!