As you might have heard, my newest product (which hasn’t even had an official hard launch yet) is part of the Conquer Your Clutter Super Bundle this week.  Contrary to what the name may imply, this bundle addresses several areas of organization, not just physical clutter.  This, like other Ultimate Bundles deals, is a 6-day sale, so I want to take a few minutes today to highlight my personal favorites from the bundle, let you know what else is in it, and give you the tools you need to determine whether it would be helpful for you.

Fast Facts

For those of you who are skimming…

• ebooks, ecourses, & printable packages addressing decluttering, organization, time management, paperwork, etc.
• $658.53 value
• (PLUS 2 digital bonuses, together worth $40)
• $29.97 for PDF + e-reader formats (obviously, courses come in their own formats)
• ends Monday, January 30, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST

Keep reading and I’ll highlight my own favorites, tell you everything that’s in there (with my own brief annotations), and give you a few more tools for determining whether it’s a good fit for you.

My Favorite Resources from the Conquer Your Clutter Super Bundle

Let’s face it, not every resource in a bundle is going to be a perfect fit for everyone, and that’s okay.  My favorites might not be your favorites.  But highlighting my favorites will let me give you a more multi-dimensional view of the Bundle, and also help illustrate how a few well-suited resources can make a bundle a really good value.

Energy Budget: Time Management for the Chronically Ill (And Others with Long-Term Roadblocks)

This one is mine and I, of course, am somewhat biased toward my own product.   Anyone can make use of the content in this e-course.  In fact, much of the content in the first module is similar to what I teach everyone when it comes to time and home management, although we draw some extra information out of it to help those who are chronically ill make some necessary adjustments.

It was written, though, specifically with the chronically ill in mind, to teach some techniques for dealing with our unreliable energy levels from day to day.  Not every technique will be a fit for every person, but having a variety of tools in your toolbox will equip you to adapt to the unpredictable life set before us.  As far as I’m aware, there’s nothing else available like it.  (That’s why I wrote it — I went looking for such a thing and couldn’t find it.)

Self-paced, low-pressure e-course because c’mon, does someone wrestling just to get a shower once in a while need someone pushing her through a course?

The Three Systems Every Family Needs

This is an hour-long webinar.  If you don’t have, and don’t plan to have, children, it probably won’t be useful for you and, honestly, I wouldn’t really think of this as falling under “organization,”  BUT… this is really, really good.  If you do have children, I’d say this is foundational to your whole household.  Without giving too much away, the basic premise is that a family is a tiny society, with three key building blocks or elements that comprise that society.  This was a really logical and practically helpful way of looking at it, for me, providing a useful framework.

Home Organizing DIY Assessment Workbook

If you made use of the organization “systems reboot” worksheet I emailed a week or two ago (more on that later in this post in case you didn’t), you saw that I addressed the systems and the types of paperwork that people generally need to have established in order for things to run smoothly — but I pointed out that the assessment was not intended to address physical clutter or the organizational state of your “stuff.”  This workbook is just that — a means of assessing the state of your “stuff” organization — so it makes a beautiful counterpart to that worksheet.

Routine Cards

This is another resource for the children, and I love it!  These are large-format (4 to a sheet), colorful graphic chore or task cards.  There are a few different ways these could be used.  They are organized into smaller routines — for instance, morning routine, bedtime routine, and chores routine.  If these suit you pretty well, you could print them out and leave them together as sections like this, so they serve as “lists.”  If you shrink them down and print multiple pages to a sheet, you could attach the cards to something like clothespins as part of a chore chart.

What I recommend (and I’m out of cardstock, or I would have printed ours out already to show you) is to print them on cardstock, laminate them, then cut them out and punch them to put on binder rings or those plastic toy links.  The cards have the instructions on them in simple text, but are primarily pictorial, so they’re great for non-readers.

Paperwork: Sorted! and The Sunday Basket

These are two separate products but, in my opinion, they work very nicely together.  Paperwork: Sorted! is about getting a system set up for both storing and processing your paperwork.  It even tells you how to deal with the backlog.  The Sunday Basket (which doesn’t have to be a “Sunday” thing, literally — it’s up to you) is a walk-through of the author’s weekly routine for dealing with the week’s new papers.  If you’re drowning in papers and need to come up with a system for moving them from their original entry point to wherever they need to end up, both of these are worth a look.

How to Create Your Own Printables

I suppose this might not be up everyone’s alley.  It may be that those of us who blog are more drawn to the ability create printables than the average person.  But if this is something you’ve been wanting to learn, Laura makes it very simple by walking course members step-by-step through the process of creating printables with Excel.  These are primarily video lessons, which of course makes sense given the how-to nature.  I consider myself pretty Excel-stupid (I just type and things break), and I was able to follow this.

Not counting my own product, my top picks add up to a retail value of $57.34 — or $106.34 with the create-your-own-printables course — making the $29.97 a great deal, even if I never read anything else in the package.

If You Used the “Systems Reboot” Worksheet — And if You Didn’t

Earlier in this post, I mentioned a “systems reboot” worksheet I emailed a week or two ago.  If you don’t get my emails, first of all, you can sign up here.  You can still download the worksheet.  The idea is to re-assess what’s working well and what isn’t, in terms of your systems and how you’re handling your paperwork, because as life changes, our needs change, too.  If you downloaded and made use of that worksheet, then check out this list.  I’ve gone through the bundle and matched up the products in it to the areas on the worksheet so you can see at a glance whether there are products in the bundle that address your areas of need.

Details, Please!

Okay, so you want to know exactly what’s in the bundle?  Below is the complete list of resources, with the retail prices and my brief annotations.  Or, for more details, just head on over to Ultimate Bundles where you can see more about each product.

Cleaning & Chores

• 2017 Motivated Moms Chore Planner by Susan Cramer ($9.00) — This is about routines, and actually tells you what to do each day of the year.
• 30 Day Guide to a Clean and Organized Home by Rachel Jones ($27.97) — 3 separate 30-day guides, for Family Spaces, the Kitchen, and Living Spaces
• Energy Budget: Time Management for the Chronically Ill (And Others With Long-Term Roadblocks) by Rachel Ramey ($78.00) — my e-course, described at the beginning of this post
• The Three Systems Every Family Needs by Saren Loosli ($24.00) — 3 key elements of all successful institutions, including families (also described above)

Decluttering

• Chaos To Clutter-Free: 16 Realistic Steps To An Organized Home by Davonne Parks ($4.99) — takes you area by area through your home; no designated time frame
• Freed from Clutter: Declutter Course by Becky Mansfield ($47.00) — 7-day, step-by-step process of tackling 5 rooms
• Step-By-Step Decluttering: Your Guide To Less Stuff And An Uncluttered Home by Sarah Mueller ($15.00) — partly about organizing, but mostly decluttering; I didn’t find a lot of “new” information here, but there are a lot of helpful worksheets for those who want to be very intentional about the process.

Family Organization

• 30 Days To An Organized Life by Kimberlee Stokes ($9.00) — covers a variety of areas, some physical, some “systems”
• Home Management For The Homeschool Mom: Simplifying The Big Things So You Don’t Miss The Little Things by Amy Roberts ($9.99) — To be honest, although this book was meant to be encouraging — and probably is for a health person — as a chronically ill mom, I found this discouraging.  It set up what seems to someone in my shoes like an impossible standard and suggested that God should be providing something He clearly has not been.  It’s good, but be mindful if you’re in a similar situation and give yourself grace.
• Home Organizing DIY Assessment Workbook by Andi Willis ($7.00) — wonderfully detailed workbook for assessing your clutter/”stuff” situation (described above)
• Organizing For School Success Kit by Saren Loosli ($27.00) — homework management, etc.
• Organizing Life As Mom by Jessica Fisher ($12.00) — purpose, goal-setting, household notebook, a little about meal planning, chores, etc. — in other words, this has a little bit of a lot of things
• Sanity Savers For Christian Moms: Simple Solutions For A More Joy-filled Life! by Kristi Clover ($5.99) — hard to describe; this also addresses a variety of areas

Managing Your Time

• 5 Days To A Better Morning by Crystal Paine ($2.99) — morning routines
• Mindspace: 10 Practices To Help You Let Go Of Mental Clutter And Make Room For More Joyful, Creative Living by Melissa Camara Wilkins ($9.99) — classic time management concepts, but from a fresh perspective (This almost made my “top picks” list.)
• Never-Ending To-Do List: A One-Hour Solution for Busy Parents Who Want Less Stress And More Fun by Kelly Holmes ($4.99) — important time-management basics — things we all need to both know and be reminded of
• Routine Cards by Rachel Norman ($6.00) — as described above, large graphic printable chore cards
• Spend Your Days: How to Control Time with Rocks, Bullets, Chisels, & a Boat by Tsh Oxenreider ($8.00) — time management principles

Meal Planning

• Meal Planning Made Easy by Kelly Smith ($7.95) — good basics; these methods are very much what I teach
• The Printable Recipe Binder Kit by Kalyn Brooke ($12.00) — self-explanatory
• The Ultimate Guide To Freezer Cooking by Crystal Barton ($10.00) — self-explanatory

Organizing Paperwork & Digital Files

• 10 Steps To Organizing Photos & Memorabilia by Lisa Woodruff ($3.95) — one mom’s methods for storing various types of (physical, not digital) memorabilia
• 2017 Budget Planner by Jessi Fearon ($19.97) — printable forms and worksheets
• Evernote Essentials by Brett Kelly ($29.00) — a ton of information about using Evernote, from basic to advanced
• Paperwork: Sorted! by Chrissy Halton ($12.39) — described above
• Spend Well Budgeting System: Printable Files To Help You Take Control Of Your Finances by Carrie Lindsey ($5.99) — a few printable forms/labels
• The Sunday Basket: Weekly Paper Organizing & Planning by Lisa Woodruff ($7.95) — described above
• The Ultimate Unofficial Dropbox Guide by Jason Glaspey ($29.00) — self-explanatory

Planners

• 2017 All Inclusive Binder by Mique Provost ($19.99) — variety of forms to choose from, and 2017 calendar
• 2017 Christmas Planner by Mandi Ehman ($4.00) — good collection of holiday planning forms
• 2017 Homestead Management Printables by Quinn Veon ($8.99) — farm-type records
• 2017 Thanksgiving Planner by Mandi Ehman ($3.00) — self-explanatory (similar to the Christmas one)
• Homekeeping Foundations Kit: The Perfect DIY Homekeeping Binder Kit by Clean Mama ($20.00) — lots of forms, including done-for-you routines
• Homeschool Mom Life Binder by Heather Bowen ($19.99) — NOT just for homeschoolers, this has undated monthly calendars and a variety of forms for household and personal sections of a binder in addition to a homeschooling section
• How To Create Your Own Printables by Laura Smith ($49.00) — described above
• Printable Planner Stickers by Rachael Wynn ($28.46) — variety of colorful, printable stickers for planners: themed, color-coding, event icons mini checklists, etc.; there are whole sheets of the same thing, though; they aren’t mixed
• The Home Management Binder & Family Planner by Helena Alkhas ($47.00) — variety of forms
• Wanderlist: Your Travel Planning Toolkit by Kimberly Tate ($12.99) — self-explanatory

BONUSES

• Exclusive $20 credit to SaneBox ($20 value) — helps filter your email inbox to keep it “sane”
• 4 month trial to YNAB ($20 value)—only available to new customers — You Need a Budget software/app.  I don’t budget, so I have no experience with this (my husband handles our finances), but my friends RAVE about this program.

All About the Conquer Your Clutter Bundle and How to Know if It Will Help You is a post from: Titus 2 Homemaker

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