January 17, 2024

Time for a 2024 Planning Session!

For my 2024 planning session, I sat down with my calendar, a pen, and the kids’ school calendars and roughly planned out the entire year. Have you ever tried that? It sounds simple, but I tell you. I am not sure I have ever done this before. There is something about the possibility of moving that makes you suddenly go into planning overdrive. I have had this 2024 planning session sitting in my calendar for a couple of weeks now, and I keep pushing it off. Sure, it is definitely time to plan out 2024, but when it comes to […]
January 12, 2024

10 Tips for How to Handle Waiting for Military Orders without Losing Your Mind

Here we are again. It is another potential moving year, and we are waiting for military orders. These are my least favorite kind of years as a military spouse. No matter how many times we do this, I still view it with a healthy dose of fear and trepidation. I have my reasons. We have lived all over the country. There have been orders that took forever to arrive, orders that changed at the last minute, and just plain old orders that I did not personally like. It’s always somethin’. When we were young and more carefree, this felt so […]
January 5, 2024

Top Ten Most Popular Getting My Act Together Posts of 2023

Looking over a complete year is always one of my favorite things to do in January. Do you do that? If you have a calendar or a journal where you write down notes about how you spent your time and record what happened, it is so fun to take a peek back at the year you finished. It can be surprising to see just how much happens in a whole year. So let’s take a look back at 2023 on this website, Getting My Act Together, and see what the most popular articles were. I am not including anything I […]
December 29, 2023

Full Winter Stitch Fix 2024 Review with Photos & Try On

Today I have a brand new Stitch Fix box for winter 2024 to share with you all. The day my Stitch Fix box comes in the mail is always an exciting one. So much of my wardrobe at this point came from this place. I have used this personal shopping service for six years now. In that time, I have received boxes full of wins, horrible boxes that did not match me at all, and mediocre boxes too, of course. This particular box falls into the mediocre category, but maybe it is a higher level of medium. I loved three […]
December 19, 2023

Day 30 of the Decluttering Challenge: Medicines

Welcome to the very last day of the Thirty Day Decluttering Challenge! We made it to the end! And for the very last day, we are decluttering our medicine stash. This is ending just in time for us to all celebrate Christmas. I would say “relax and celebrate Christmas,” but who gets to do that until the whole thing is officially over? Christmas is joyous and beautiful and also completely exhausting and overwhelming. At least, that is how I feel about it. Maybe we are doing it wrong! It does feel like a special gift to myself that I have […]
December 16, 2023

Day 29 of the Decluttering Challenge: Bathroom

Welcome back to the Thirty Day Decluttering Challenge! For day twenty-nine, we are working on a bathroom. At our house, that means I’m decluttering the boys’ bathroom. When it comes to cleaning, a boys’ bathroom can be a hard job. However, when it comes to decluttering, it is the easiest job of all. Actually, this particular boys bathroom is used by only two brothers. They keep their toilet shockingly clean. I just want to say that because I am as surprised as anyone. For sixteen years I have cleaned toilets used by multiple male people, and it is a terrible […]
December 15, 2023

Day 28 of the Decluttering Challenge: Master Bathroom

For day twenty-eight of the decluttering challenge, we are going through our master bathrooms with a fine tooth comb. But we are only going to do that for ten minutes. Now if you have more time you want to devote to cleaning out your master bathroom, go for it. If not, I think you will be pleasantly surprised with how much ground you can cover in the bathroom in only ten minutes. Start with whatever space you want to improve the most because chances are you may spend the whole ten minutes in that one area. I chose the cabinet […]
December 14, 2023

Day 27 of the Decluttering Challenge: Toy Bins

For day twenty-seven of the decluttering challenge, we are picking out a toy bin or two to declutter. I bet every single person who reads this has some toy bins to clean out. It may be a box of toys if you are in my phase of life. This could also mean bins of electronics like I did yesterday. or a cabinet full of DVDs, or a box filled with photographs that need to be moved to photo albums. It could be any box, drawer, shelf, or cabinet in your house that needs to be decluttered! I find these micro […]
December 13, 2023

Day 26 of the Decluttering Challenge: Living Room Shelves

For day twenty-six of the decluttering challenge, we are digging into those living room shelves and storage areas. This could be shelves, cabinets, drawers, hidden cubbies, or cube boxes (like I have). Wherever you shove your living room junk, today is the day to see what kind of decluttering you can get done in these spaces. At our house, we keep two cube boxes on a shelf beside the t.v. In those boxes, we shove everything remotely electronic-related. Sometimes we put things that are not related at all, but we just want to get them out of the way. It’s […]
December 12, 2023

Day 25 of the Decluttering Challenge: Foyer

For day twenty-five of our Thirty Day Decluttering Challenge, we are cleaning out our foyer. Do you have a foyer in need of decluttering? It may be a closet or a set of hooks in your foyer that you use the most. Whatever area you tend to use as a launchpad, that is where we are going today. At our house we have this beautiful hall tree that is probably about a hundred years old. It was my great-grandparents’, and I have memories of seeing it in their foyer my entire childhood. When I was a kid, I thought it […]

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